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More Ed Yong hype:
Mary Roach (a top science-writer herself) says this about Ed's upcoming book:Ed Yong reveals our fellow Earth dwellers in ways so mind-twisting they border on psychedelia. A fully formed wasp smaller than an amoeba. Bacteria so big you can see one with bare eyes. Plants that secrete appetite suppressants to foil hungry insects. This book amazes like no other I’ve read. Yong is the perfect ambassador to the improbable wonderland of nature freed from the perceptual boxes we humans typically confine it to. His writing is clear, clever, vivid, the science set alight by his enthusiasm—for the unseen, the unimagined, and the unappreciated (Yong’s passage about hagfish slime deserves a Pulitzer all its own).
—Mary Roach, author of Stiff -
More Ed Yong hype:
Mary Roach (a top science-writer herself) says this about Ed's upcoming book:Ed Yong reveals our fellow Earth dwellers in ways so mind-twisting they border on psychedelia. A fully formed wasp smaller than an amoeba. Bacteria so big you can see one with bare eyes. Plants that secrete appetite suppressants to foil hungry insects. This book amazes like no other I’ve read. Yong is the perfect ambassador to the improbable wonderland of nature freed from the perceptual boxes we humans typically confine it to. His writing is clear, clever, vivid, the science set alight by his enthusiasm—for the unseen, the unimagined, and the unappreciated (Yong’s passage about hagfish slime deserves a Pulitzer all its own).
—Mary Roach, author of Stiff -
More science hype, from Ed Yong:
The book, then, is about life at every possible scale. It’s about what it’s like to be as large as a whale or as small as a bacterium, to repeatedly travel across the world like a migrating bird or to be rooted in place like a tree, or to live barely a few months like some coral reef fish or to endure for millennia like a bristlecone pine. It’s about the layered nature of life: how living beings evolve astonishing new materials out of simple building blocks; how they gain new powers by swarming together in groups; and how groups can evolve into new kinds of individuals. It’s about scales of influence: how beavers can make wetlands, how bacteria can remake a planet, and how thoughtless actions can unmake both. -
More science hype, from Ed Yong:
The book, then, is about life at every possible scale. It’s about what it’s like to be as large as a whale or as small as a bacterium, to repeatedly travel across the world like a migrating bird or to be rooted in place like a tree, or to live barely a few months like some coral reef fish or to endure for millennia like a bristlecone pine. It’s about the layered nature of life: how living beings evolve astonishing new materials out of simple building blocks; how they gain new powers by swarming together in groups; and how groups can evolve into new kinds of individuals. It’s about scales of influence: how beavers can make wetlands, how bacteria can remake a planet, and how thoughtless actions can unmake both.