CxD 📚'23 #13: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
Read all about it! Human senses are bubkus compared to the grand buffet Life has on offer!
Learn about some next-level hearing, seeing, color sesnsory, pain receptors, heat vision, touching sensitivities, writing and listening to songs via earth vibrations and leaf vibrations, echolocation, electric fields, magnetic fields & using vision and quantum entanglement to read the earth’s magnetic polarities — and how these expansions of perception can teach us to think in terms of diversity rather than superiority.
Friends you’ll meet along the way are otters and spiders and whales and bats and mole rats and dogs and dolphins and bees and octopuses and and and…
The reading experience itself: daunting— chapter after chapter of lots of science and experiments and data and leaps of imagination required to make sense of it all.
Life after reading it all: profoundly changed. The world becomes bigger when you begin to pay attention to what you perceive, and to that which you do not.
Ed Yong wrote a stand-alone article about the most important and touching part of expanding our own sense of senses: noise and light pollution and how we’re messing up the environment and ecosystem for all the creatures who rely on seeing and hearing clearly. The article lives here outside the book:
Pairs exceptionally well with this talk given by a human who can “see” like a dolphin despite being blind: