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The Wonderful World of Animal Senses and How They Expand Our View of The Universe (w/ Ed Yong)

Current Affairs - August 19, 2022 12:20 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 576 ratings
Ed Yong of The Atlantic is the author of the new bestselling book An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us, which is about all of the fascinating ways in which animal senses differ from our own, and how they show the immense amount of information in the universe tha...

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Ed Yong Explores the Wonders of Animal Senses in ‘An Immense World’

KQED's Forum - June 22, 2022 19:05 - 55 minutes ★★★★ - 595 ratings
Bumblebees can’t see red, but they can detect the ultraviolet hue, invisible to humans, at the center of a sunflower. A fly can taste an apple just by landing on it, and a rattlesnake can perceive the infrared radiation emanating from warm-blooded prey. Those are just some of the extraordinary an...

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Episode 423: Ed Yong

Longform - December 23, 2020 17:14 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.7K ratings
Ed Yong spent 2020 covering the pandemic for The Atlantic. His latest feature is "How Science Beat the Virus." “I am trying to give readers a platform that they can stand on to observe this raging torrent that is the pandemic, this cascade of information that is threatening to sweep us all away....

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Episode 386: Ed Yong

Longform - April 01, 2020 15:10 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.7K ratings
Ed Yong is the author of I Contain Multitudes and a science writer at The Atlantic . His most recent article is "How the Pandemic Will End." “Normally when I write things that are about a pressing societal issue, those pieces feel like they’re about things that need to get solved in timeframes ...

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