Mhen: I feel like i have aged several lifetimes in that time. The book very much was a palate cleanser. Nine months of reporting uncovered his grueling, draining, demoralizing work. And returning to this topic, which is joyful and magical and wondrous, was a much neededLike salve fror my soul in the midst of all that.
In the first episode of our new series Nature hits the books, science journalist Ed Yong joins us to talk about his new book An Immense World, which takes a journey through the weird and wonderful realm of animal senses.
In the show, we chat about how our human-centric view of the world has restricted researchers' understanding of animal senses, how to conceptualise what it might be like to be an electric-field sensitive fish, and what bees might make of us blushing...
An Immense World, Ed Yong, Random House (2022)
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