i think in a way, it's not escapism, because we don't nessarly want to escape. But there's something about remembering we're part of a bigger network of living things on the planet. If you could have one, we'd extra sensory here, but i think we mean beyond the human senses. What would the power be? Just to say, stella, mine would be the magnetic thing, because i have no sensa direction, so i'm going for magnets. Ok? M my, i feel like my answer to this question changes all the time. I have previously said the i stuff. Am, i've talked about dolphin echo location, which
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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