Our final TPWKY book club selection of the season will test the limits of your imagination by asking you to consider what it might be like to smell the world through the nose of a dog or to see flowers through the ultraviolet vision of a bee. It will make you ponder the tradeoffs inherent in sensory perception and what an animal’s dominant senses can tell us about what is most important to their species. It will have you contemplating what the future holds for sensory research, both in terms of what new senses we might discover as well as the impacts of sensory pollution on an ecosystem. In short, it will change the way you perceive the world. Pulitzer Prize-winning science journalist Ed Yong joins us to chat about his incredible book, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us. Yong, whose other book I Contain Multitudes is another TPWKY favorite, leads us on an expedition beyond the boundaries of human senses as we chat about what an octopus tastes, how the line between communication and perception is blurred in electric fish, the evolutionary arms race between bats and moths, and even the long-standing question of why zebras have stripes. Tune in for the riveting and magical conclusion to this season’s miniseries.
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Ep 85 Alcohol: Beer for Thought
Ep 84 West Nile virus: The Crow in the Coal Mine
Ep 83 Diabetes: Short & Sweet
Ep 82 Anthrax: The Hardcore Spore
Ep 81 Chagas disease: The Reverse Triple Discovery
Ep 80 Dysentery loves a disaster
Ep 79 Hemophilia: A Hemorrhagic Disposition
Ep 78 Bartonella: Keep Calm and Carrión
Ep 77 Legionnaires' Disease: A Killer Mist
Ep 76 Chickenpox: There's always a 'but'
Ep 75 Mercury: The cost of progress
COVID-19 Chapter 20: Looking forward by looking back
Ep 74 Naegleria fowleri: The "brain-eating amoeba"
COVID-19 Chapter 19: Your Stories
Ep 73 Puerperal Fever: Seriously, wash your hands
COVID-19 Chapter 18: Conservation & Pandemics
Ep 72 White-Nose Syndrome: How deep is your torpor?
COVID-19 Chapter 17: Frontline Mental Health
Ep 71 Onchocerciasis/River Blindness: So many mysteries
COVID-19 Chapter 16: Disparities, Take 2
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