Ed Yong
Science writer at The Atlantic. Author of I CONTAIN MULTITUDES, a New York Times bestseller on animal-microbe partnerships.
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Can a War of the Wasps Save Hawai‘i’s Wiliwili Trees?
Atlas Obscura 16h 1 tweets
It's a classic good wasp/bad wasp situation.
How Did Humans Boil Water Before the Invention of Pots?
Sarah Zhang - The Atlantic 24h 2 tweets
Roasting would have been easy. But re-creating the paleo way of boiling water requires a bit more imagination.
What researchers think about the culture they work in
Wellcome.ac.uk 55h 38 tweets
[Summary] Perspectives on and experiences of research culture, based on a survey of more than 4,000 researchers in the UK and globally.
2019 Was Hotter Than Any Year in the 20th Century
Robinson Meyer - The Atlantic 43h 5 tweets
It was the second hottest year on record, at the end of a decade of record-breaking heat.
How A Bad Boss Remade Himself As A Climate Hero
Zahra Hirji - BuzzFeed News 8d 9 tweets
George Luber says he was kicked out of the CDC’s climate program for fighting censorship. But shortly before that, five women on his staff had accused him of sexist behavior and being a bad boss.
Warren’s New Electability Argument
Emma Green - The Atlantic 50h 1 tweets
Elizabeth Warren made the case during Tuesday’s Democratic debate that gender is not a liability in 2020. It’s a strength.
How researchers and advocates of color are forging their own paths in psychedelic-assisted therapy
WHYY 6d 2 tweets
After a long history of erasure, communities of color are reclaiming psychedelic traditions to heal from trauma.
Your Brain On Storytelling
NPR.org 3d 4 tweets
Storytelling can be a powerful tool to convey information, even in the world of science. It can also shift stereotypes about who scientists are. We talked to someone who knows all about this - Liz Neeley, the Executive Director of Story Collider, a...
‎Short Wave: Your Brain On Storytelling on Apple Podcasts
Apple Podcasts 3d 1 tweets
‎Show Short Wave, Ep Your Brain On Storytelling - Jan 14, 2020
Ed Yong “You deserve to be known... for your full self. Scientists for a very long time have tried to be a very narrow portion of who they are, and storytelling helps illustrate their beautiful complex whole humanity.” -the incomparable on #nprshortwave 3d
Australia’s Fires Were a Disaster Waiting to Happen
Ed Yong - The Atlantic 3d 5 tweets
An estimated 1 billion animal deaths in the bushfires are a capstone to the slow annihilation of the country’s diverse wildlife.
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Ed Yong Also this bit changed the way I think about extinctions and extirpations 3d
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Ed Yong “As temperatures rise, Australia becomes more monochrome. In the ocean, the reefs have been whitening. On land, the forests have been blackening.” 3d
The Price of Protecting Rhinos
The Atlantic 4d 2 tweets
Conservation has become a war, and park rangers and poachers are the soldiers.
Ep. 27 - Ed Yong on telling the grand, urgent and surprising stories of animal worlds
SoundCloud 4d 1 tweets
Nonhuman beings, and the passionate people who study them, animate Ed Yong’s vast, award-winning and kaleidoscopically varied body of journalism. His vivid stories explore the lives of scientists, the
It’s Hard to Get Cuttlefish to Wear 3-D Glasses
Ed Yong - The Atlantic 9d 3 tweets
They perceive depth in a very different way than we do.
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Ed Yong The problem with getting cuttlefish to wear 3D glasses is that some of them absolutely refuse to put up it, and can use their arms to yank the accessories off. 9d
Ed Yong Just like humans, cuttlefish can do stereopsis—judging depth by comparing the images from both eyes—but they’re better at it, and they can do it without even focusing both eyes on the same place!? 9d
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Ed Yong Anyway everything is terrible and/or on fire but there are still people working really hard to understand how cuttlefish see the world and I find that delightful and surprisingly reassuring. 9d
Women Scientists Were Written Out of History. It's Margaret Rossiter's Lifelong Mission to Fix That
Smithsonian 116d 10 tweets
The historian has devoted her career to bringing to light the ingenious accomplishments of those who have been forgotten
What's Behind Australia's Historic Fires
NPR.org 9d 1 tweets
Biologist Lesley Hughes from Macquarie University in Australia explains why the recent bushfires there could change the country forever. Hughes is a former federal climate commissioner, and has been the lead author on two reports for the UN's...
How Rupert Murdoch Is Influencing Australia’s Bushfire Debate
Damien Cave - Nytimes.com 9d 57 tweets
Critics see a concerted effort to shift blame, protect conservative leaders and divert attention from climate change.
Migration: Stories about journeys home
The Story Collider 840d 2 tweets
Biologist Maryam Zaringhalam is visiting her family's home country of Iran when the travel ban goes into effect, and Chernobyl survivor Janina Scarlet flees the Soviet Union with her family
The Surprisingly Cheery Reason These Baby Birds Are So Fancy
Ed Yong - The Atlantic 17d 6 tweets
Unlike many other gaudy animal ornaments, the red-and-orange heads of coot chicks are honest indicators of weakness and vulnerability.
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Ed Yong One final story for the decade: Why exactly are these baby birds so fancy? Featuring violence, death, parasitism, puns, and... a kinda sweet twist ending. 17d
The Fight Over the 1619 Project Is Not About the Facts
The Atlantic 25d 40 tweets
A dispute between a small group of scholars and the authors of The New York Times Magazine’s issue on slavery represents a fundamental disagreement over the trajectory of American society.
Best of Story Collider 2019
The Story Collider 28d 2 tweets
As we come to the end of 2019, the Story Collider team is reflecting on the stories that have run on our podcast this year. This year, we produced 77 live shows, with more than 370 different stories. Out of those, 108 stories have made their way...