The hidden world that birds see
Topics discussed
Sponsor: Mount Sinai Women's Health
Sponsor: Monday.com AI Agents
Introduction: Bird migration and magnetoreception
Guest Ed Yong and his book An Immense World
Historical experiments on bird magnetic sensing
Understanding Earth's magnetic field
The mystery of the magnetoreception organ
Three hypotheses: Magnetite, induction, and quantum biology
Imagining what magnetoreception feels like
Sponsors: Odoo and Amazon Prime
Sponsor: Google Gemini
The concept of Umwelt: Animal perceptual worlds
Examples: Bird vision, fish electricity, and dog smell
Human humility and the limits of interspecies communication
Applying Umwelt to human empathy and relationships
Outro, credits, and listener mail
Sponsors: Odoo and The Devil Wears Prada 2
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