The unvelt is the sensory bubble through which every living thing perceives the world. Tvenska imagined an animal as a house overlooking a garden, and all the windows of the house ast animal's senses through those windows ow. It looks out and gets a particular view of the garden, but it's not a total view. And other houses around the same in the same neighbourhood might get a slightly different one. That's what it's like. Er, you know, if i was sharing this room with a a dog or an elephant or a platypus or a snake, we would all have a radically different experience of that space. We're actually only perceiving a thin sl
What do bees sense in flowers? What do songbirds hear in each others’ tunes? And what’s that smell sending your dog running up the street? These questions and many more are the basis of science communicator Ed Yong's book, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us. He is a staff writer at The Atlantic magazine and his coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic won the Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting. He's also the recipient of the George Polk Award for Science Reporting and the author of I Contain Multitudes, his previous book, which became a bestseller. Speaking with Ed on the podcast is Chrissie Giles, Global Health Editor at the Bureau of Investigative Journalism in London.
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