Eating the Sun is a whimsical and poetic journey through various scientific topics, presented in short, accessible chapters accompanied by colorful illustrations. The book demystifies complex concepts by weaving them into everyday experiences, inspiring a sense of awe and curiosity about the universe and our place within it.
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Ella Frances Sanders is an internationally-bestselling author and illustrator of three books. Her third book, Eating the Sun: Small Musings on a Vast Universe, was the recipient of the 2019 Whirling Prize for Prose and has been translated into many languages.
In this episode, Eric and Ella have a delicious conversation about this lovely book that contains all sorts of interesting facts and beautiful illustrations about our universe and how we as humans relate to such things.
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In This Interview, Ella Frances Sanders and I Discuss her Musings on a Vast Universe and…
- Her book, “Eating the Sun: Small Musings on a Vast Universe”
- Her take on the wolf parable and how it’s about choosing possibility over panic
- How moving slowly helps us notice a lot of what’s good
- Our relationship to plants and to the sun
- How giving plants human characteristics helps us connect and care about them
- The challenge in understanding the scale of things
- We see things through filters without thinking about it
- How science works with laws and things that we know are true
- Our choices are affected by how we are influenced by the world around us
- How the universe is moving toward ultimate chaos
- Our memories are susceptible to alterations and get filtered through the present moment
- How we are only remembering the last time we remembered
- Stressful situations can affect memory
- The half-life of facts is the amount of time it takes for a fact to become untrue
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