"An Immense World": Ed Yong on How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us

[@claudiaypaz]

Thank you for giving time to Ed Yong to present his book. A much needed read in a world driven by money and fear.

[@AudioPervert1]

this is bureaucracy now democracy never. Woke turds gather here mewling about the world falling apart, however totally invested glued to the same system which is killing the planet.

[@judicrandall5379]

I’d recommend Trevor Loudons channel Counterpunch. Corporate liberals don’t understand two things economics or the ability to decipher something called propaganda. Democrat war mongers deserve nothing but disdain your all disgusting beyond belief.

[@kesart8378]

Any conversation with Ed Yong is a memorable, enlightening one. Such a brilliant, thoughtful, compassionate person.

[@judicrandall5379]

I like Andy Ngo , Kip Simpson and The Duran also worth a watch.

[@dreamlife2351]

God, I love this man 🕊 Thank you Democracy Now for having this sensitive, brilliant human being on your platform.

[@adoxartist1258]

Very proud of you, sir, for pacing yourself.

[@ungratefulninja4535]

"Until we extend our circle of compassion to all living things humanity will not find peace." Albert Schweitzer

[@2hard2knock]

This is important work that increases human understanding of ourselves and the animals with which we share this planetary existence.👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽

[@bellakrinkle9381]

Ed Yong; amazing man! Thank you Amy for reminding us that we are not alone.

[@quelizabeth2]

AI absolutely love Ed Yong. His intelligence , and humanity are palpable . You will be missed sir. Take care of yourself, sending you my love and admiration from Chihuahua, Mexico 🇲🇽

[@valerieann8007]

Maybe you are the one who will be missed instead. Ed Yong is still here, and very valuable to all life everywhere.

[@NomadProfessional]

Democracy Now is a vital news outlet, takes into account sound science and world events.

[@tmnt10000]

Vital at spreading leftist propaganda

[@mailvoor698]

they are colored

[@edwardcopeland5069]

Well think of all the human beings that have had their sensory organs deaden because of the technology around them, that like the animals are suffering also! but most of us have half-hearted answer for that, like pull yourself up by the bootstraps nonsense, I understand what Ed is saying, but his passion in what he's saying is obviously more riveted toward his domesticated dog Typo 🐕 but again this effect the sensory organ of the human beings more importantly, even more particularly the poor...I haven't read his book , but if it covers how this impact all life, I apologize for being presumptive I know he means good, but many of us have seemingly concluded that all we need in this life is ourselves and a good dog...While man dominates man to his own injury.

[@Marxist2]

Thanks to Ed Yong for his analysis on the many worlds we can't even imagine by shedding light on the huge & interesting experience of how other animals perceive reality. I wanna read his book.

[@reggiebald2830]

Respect; not just in our realm, but in those we cannot see or yet recognize. Thank you!

[@gloriouse4458]

WE ABSOLUTELY LUV ED YONG N HIS CREATIVE MIND 🐾💓

[@dragon07golden]

My canine son is very curious and loves to walk. Tours are several times a day. But, at night we walked more, 30 to 40 minutes and he was already elderly, but with a good pace for walks!!! And, please, publish your book edition in several languages, here in Portuguese (BR), I'm sure it will sell a lot!! Thank you!

[@tzaph67]

Thank you for this beautiful piece. Ed Yong is a wonderful man.

[@mariatorres5563]

Ed youn is a amazing human being wish him the vest in life....What a guy!!!

[@AudioPervert1]

this is bureaucracy now democracy never. Woke turds gather here mewling about the world falling apart, however totally invested glued to the same system which is killing the planet.

[@kristalkristal2506]

I loved this. I hope his book will inspire more people to consider the world through the eyes of another, and then especially consider the ways in which we flood and dominate the world of these others.

[@kirstenspencer3630]

Four months ago my blue oak tree ( 100 years old ) produced a larger than normal crop of acorns. It does this when wet weather to support the acorns is expected. In drought years the tree correctly anticipatied lack of rain and had distinctly less acorn production. I have observed this for the last 19 years.

[@orangeyewglad]

This Ed Yong is a beautiful human being, we need more like him!

[@simuliid]

On my library list! Thank you for sharing this

[@vanengelen31]

Very important subject 👌. You are so right. We have to take things for example like sounds and light to account. They really don't care. Because they're drilling oil in the sea and making the biggest wind park at sea. Who's telling them we need to do better and change our ways for the benefits of our beautiful amazing impressive inspirational planet. LOVE NATURE RESPECT NATURE 🌞 🙏 ❤

[@elizabethpears307]

Fantastic book!!!! Really enjoyed the audio book. We are losing so much in the way we treat the animal and plant world and ignore the fact that we are part of it and dependent on it.

[@stephen_pfrimmer]

Cats have a unique visual field too. They can discriminate cooler colors well (green to purple). Less so toward red.

[@DSentomXHunta]

As a pup parent, I really love this part, thank you Amy and Ed Young

[@natalianunez1385]

Loved this thank you ❤

[@donboisvenu4959]

It's a vision of those who open their hearts and minds can touch and feel. This is part of the Majesty of Nature, of Consciousness, of the Mystery of all.

[@Original3523]

Thank you for a very interesting and sensitive interview

[@ravindertalwar553]

THANKS 👍 FOR THE UPDATES

[@qur4334]

I Appreciate How My Dog's Negative Or Positive Reactions To PPL Heeded My Relationships. Also, My Dog Taught Me To See In The Dark.

[@tammiepulley7167]

Wonderful info. Would love more like this if possible.

[@beadingbusily]

Love this episode, and my dog. 😀 ❤️

[@koksalceylan9032]

Very very interesting

[@crhu319]

We all need more of this. Reminders of what really matters. And that we have no right to visit horror on all other life on the Earth.

[@valerieann8007]

Ed Yong - wonderful!

[@mm669]

It would be wonderful if all humans adopted this sensitivity to our fellow living creatures.

[@Dot-Dot-Dash]

Sending Ed Young love!!!

[@augusthavince8909]

Yes! to the sniff-walk. I sometimes try to imagine the kind of detail that a dog is reading in the things they smell, especially when they seem fixated on a spot. I'm wondering what could be so interesting.

[@jacpratt8608]

it could take all day

[@DreamingOfABetterDay]

When our dog goes for walks me and my boys started saying "let the smell fest begin ".

[@GreenOrchid9]

Merry Christmas🌲🎶🎵🌲 Happy New Year🌴2023 ⏰ Stay healthy 😷🌅🐳

[@donaldsweeney784]

Very interesting good show

[@angelap3241]

Great video

[@kesart8378]

As a human animal, I would be quite pleased if other human animals would refrain from invading my aural space with their throbbing music and loud mobile phone conversations. Just a thought.

[@pprehn5268]

Thanks Love the new word: Um-weld = the world surrounding us as we experience it.

[@ursulasoames8602]

Um welt . Welt = Welt 🌎

[@jessemoreno3471]

Great news.

[@Strawman333]

Our modern technology particularly wireless frequencies, is no doubt destroying nature, and ourselves on a massive scale.

[@beerman204]

He passionately wants society to be better/different than it is. This can lead to burnout when such passion runs up upon realities....

[@JamesFox1]

Thank You , , ,

[@mondobear22]

Most people are oblivious to how lights and sound and temperature and toxic cleaning chemicals effect their dogs. And these are supposedly the animals they love. It's unfathomable that humans could ever consider how their noisy, toxic world might be effecting strangers of other species.

[@larryross1819]

These are the honorable mentions for idiot leftist of the year. Yoel Roth. Twitter’s former head of “Trust and Safety” has proven himself to be unworthy of trust and rather “safely” stupid. While meeting regularly with the FBI, Roth was fed a line of BS about Russian hackers and the prospect of a fake story involving Hunter Biden. Shortly thereafter, those FBI contacts had Roth gleefully preventing the very real Hunter Biden story from being disseminated. Roth was a fiddle, played to perfection by the FBI and he never once appears to have questioned his handlers. While his stupidity didn’t occur this year, it was exposed and he was the person who proudly announced it to the world. Well deserving of an honorable mention. CNN. They’re not MSNBC, but it’s not for lack for trying. There are just only so many morons willing to scream that everything is racist/sexist/homophobic/transphobic/whatever-Democrat- flavor-of-the-moment-phobic to go around. MSNBC hired those best at it, CNN got the rest. Even though they’re the oldest cable news channel, their on-air team has all the quality of a new expansion team. In order to “save” the network and renew audiences, the geniuses running the joint have simply taken the same people no one wanted to watch and put them on at different times. If you thought Don Lemon was the worst way conceivable to end your day, just imagine starting it with him. Democrat Sam Bankman-Fried. Most criminals are democrats and idiots, few raise their idiocy to an art form. SBF has. Billions gone, no one knows where, but Sammy knew exactly which party to grease in order to get away with it as long as he did, but he could only get away with it for so long. Even then, he was getting support from rich suckers anyway. He is learning what happens to “useful idiots” who loses the “useful” part. He also goes a long way toward reinforcing my firm belief that you should never trust a man with a hyphenated last name. Congressional democrats. No, not all of them. But some Members of Congress are so unbelievably moronic that if you’re written them into a work of fiction your editor would reject them as being too absurd. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is what a stupid person would create if they were trying to parody a stupid person. The rest of the Goon Squad spend their time sucking, both up to her and in their own right. They hate themselves some Jews and America while basking in all the glory and opportunity it affords them. Only here could a moron like Mazie Hirono hold a job that doesn’t require a hairnet and the months, if not years, of training she would require to successfully operate a deep fryer without setting herself on fire. Drag queens who dance for kids and trans-activists seeking to butcher them. There is a new kind of evil in the world - people who actively pursue the physical mutilation of children for their own profit/glory/political agenda (take your pick). Sick isn’t a strong enough word and Hell isn’t an awful enough place for these people. As for the drag queens, it’s important to differentiate a run-of-the-mill dragster and any who would consider what they do in public to be for “all ages.” It’s curious how the democrat left has a problem with parents not wanting someone’s genitals waived around in the faces of their children, but have no issues with adults who consider it somehow normal or “artistic” to do so. Pretty sure there once was a time that doing so would’ve gotten you a righteous beating, if not jail time. Democrats have shifted what is acceptable that much, which is not only idiotic, it’s just plain gross!!! LGB

[@emilie658]

Oh ;I loved that, thank you for giving me the possibility to get to know this man, and for your interview. Umwelt is a German word, and if you look in the dictionary you will find a link to the "green movement" and how they actually encouraged everybody how to protect this bioshere.

[@feedingravens]

"Umwelt" - another german word that english has to take over as there is no english counterpart that hits the scope of the word, like "Gestalt" or "Angst". Words that have concrete AND conceptual meaning.

[@editing5157]

@@immortalhygiene A bit strange, given it seems the book is very much inspired by Uexkull's thinking.

[@glormoparch5154]

It's a good word but part of a long trend in recognition that reality might be counterintuitive and man's endless obsession with control and behaviorism is probably bad.

[@glormoparch5154]

They bring up Jakob in the interview and Ed references him a lot actually. I'm not going to find the keyboard for the umlaut sorry 🤷‍♀️

[@tzaph67]

@@immortalhygieneAmy mentioned it.

[@shawnchurch316]

I can detect the earths magnetic field and I realized I could when I was a young adult. I noticed that everywhere I have ever lived that I made the headboard of my bed point north and that I have to sleep with my head pointing north and even when camping I did it unconsciously. It does not matter weather I am driving a car or flying my plane I know exactly what direction I am flying without using instrumentation. I have also been able to see ghosts since I was a very young child and I can immediately sense spirits when I walk into a home.

[@tzaph67]

That sounds wonderful. I’d love to be able to sense the Earth’s magnetic field!

[@shawnchurch316]

@@tzaph67 Most people have the ability to detect magnetic fields but they are unaware of it because they are not tuned into it. I have taken part in numerous studies involving the brain and the most recent study was at Caltech and it was for magnetoreception. The human brain is capable of perceiving so many things if you are tuned in. I don't know how many people are like me but I have my own theories about the capabilities of the human brain. For some reason I am drawn to other people who have the same traits.

[@brenellhornsby6566]

I often feel badly for animals. Did anyone ask them whether or not they ever wanted or need human parents? They don't. We are moving into a world where this will be respected.

[@garysantos7053]

For millennia, people across the globe have reported alarming animal behavior in the run-up to natural disasters. Could these signals be used to warn us of impending catastrophes? Source: BBC

[@lobopix_]

The Chinese have known this for millennia. They also noticed that the water in their wells would drop significantly before a major earth movement. Only when western science poo-pooed this did the Chinese stop paying attention in order to gain greater acceptance among western scientific establishments. When their last major earthquake hit they ignored the animal migrations and had a disastraous emergency on their hands after the quake hit. Instead they should have provided the west with data. I read a report a couple of years ago about Japanese scientists, who were studying water in aquifers, had data indicating strange anomalous ionic changes in the ground water they were analysing just before the Kobe earthquake hit. They didn't relate their data to the quake's activity until many years after. In his brilliantly written and illustrated *The Seven Mysteries Of Life* Guy Murchie says his meta-study of the sense operating on our plant revealed 32, not merely 5 senses were available to us if we only paid more attention to our world. What this suggests is that we should be globally pooling our data and then _test them_ before dismissing them just because we have different cultural mindsets. How many establishment scientists have howled with indignation at the likes of independent scientist Rupert Sheldrake who had heard a number of anecdotes about owners' dogs sitting at the door waiting for them to come home at the exact time that they were leaving their offices. He conducted citizens' experiments on that basis getting people to video record their dogs when they went to their favored place of greeting with their owners. He matched the video time-stamps with the time the owners' noted from their watches when they were leaving their place of work. They matched to a very significant degree. This shows that dogs have some kind of 'telepathy' which establishment scientists just can't stomach the idea of. However, this kind of telepathy has also been noted operating among native people's by field anthropologists also. The San people of the Kalahari desert always knew where they were without any need for a compass. An anthropologist who didn't know the way home asked his two San guides if they knew which direction to go in. They both immediately, and without hesitation, pointed in the same direction and got the anthropologist back to his camp. What is more the people at the camp knew when they were coming back and had a meal ready for them on arrival. These kinds of phenomena have been noted among Australian Aboriginal peoples also. And Yogis are well known for having such perceptions. Regardless of our cultural and locational differences what makes us indubitably similar is that we are all trying to thrive within our own local environmental Life-support systems and we, each in our own little corners, have managed to make salient observations of patterns of activity - and anomalies from those patterns - within our biotic, and abiotic, environs which have proven invaluable enough to have saved hundreds, or thousands of lives at a time. This is just about the simple act of paying attention, over time, sharing the observations, and thereby gaining access to some invaluable pre-emptive signals. If we were half as smart as we think we are we would long ago have built a global alarm system based on a database of centrally gathered existential historical experience from cultures around the world. There is everything to gain and nothing to lose, no?

[@saeyddibaj6118]

Ed Yong is so right challenging our illusion of power of our senses which in this case is also questioning human superiority. A new year eve celebration is soon going to happen with its shallow superficial fireworks around the world that will terrify all living creatures whom we wrongly consider as inferior. Cruise ships submarines and offshore oil/gas extracting rockets and excessive light pollution is a part sapiens lack of empathy for our fellow living organisms. Insatiable greed will be our downfall.

[@francoislatreille6068]

[@empirical77]

Noise and light pollution is also harming us humans. I have soundproof windows and blackout shades now.

[@watershedbarbie]

I won't even vacume when my cats are inside. I only use candles after dark. I am heartbroken about what the world has done to Nature. The things we know about and the things we do not know yet.

[@stupifyingstupedity2112]

The concept of "sensory bubble" is also applicable to neuro-divergence among humans.

[@anaibarangan4908]

Sonar if observe about sea life and bird life. Is that what can make flocks birds move as if creating shapes in the sky above us, the what more can be determining migrations for preservation of wildlife? Flocks of birds, schools of fish, any type of animals that practice migration. He's definitely given it all a lot of time in serious thought and observations. As for dogs, we already know that there are whistles for them, that only they can sense or hear.

[@cacevedo07]

Interesting

[@qur4334]

1 Night The Lights/Electricity Went Out. It Was Sooo Quiet That It Seemed Loud. It was something called negative decibels

[@orangeyewglad]

Thank you Democracy now, I have a feeling covering COP15 helped opened the door for someone like Ed Yong to be a guest on the program.

[@eliw3261]

Mammals are more complex than any other animal group. Cats have brilliant night vision and hearing and are one of the few mammals that are obligate carnivores. There's a reason big cat is called King.

[@paulheydarian1281]

What a Precious Snowflake ❄...!!!

[@johncremeans969]

This is so trivial that it passes for depth

[@MrCBTman]

No, his message is vitally important, and your ignorance illustrates why.

[@reforest4fertility]

Hence why we should reforest, as that replaces habitat, can restore some biodiversity, or at least maintain what we have left. Plus forests stabilize climate, thusly they restore fertility for growing our own food & food for wildlife. Forests also generate fresh water in abundance, all the way inland, thru the cycle of hydrology. You can know the wrecking ball swing we're experiencing of droughts & floods & temperature extremes are from the rapid pace of deforestation. End that clearcut logging by switching to selection logging that doesn't highgrade & lumber will still flow, but relative old growth would remain protected, while canopy would be maintained for hydrology. Yes, those "atmospheric rivers" of torrential rains used to describe the process of transpiration of a forested mountain slope, concentrating into like an upward flowing river into cloud formation, piling up into rainclouds that historically would only rain lightly. This builds into an abundance of water without floods. Plz consider advocating for this for posterity as well to save our own precious lives.

[@kapa1611]

👍

[@SoupBone-bp1qk]

An yet with all this evidence people still don't believe in a God who is the Creator of all things.

[@richardcup66]

This is just scientist proving what every child can sense if they have a backyard or has been to a zoo and especially go camping.

[@tzaph67]

Maybe every child can sense it but going by the decisions of policy makers and how we as humans generally treat the Earth, it’s something 99 percent forget on the journey to adulthood, otherwise we’d live on a cleaner, greener planet and there’d be a lot more care and respect to non human life forms.

[@saltapozo]

I feel the same as you..

[@Pax2023]

The world is full of wonder, so the message should be, let's stop destroying it. If we lived by the simple principle of only taking what we really needed for survival, it would spare billions of creatures from the destruction that we visit upon them. And survival doesn't mean a return to a primitive lifestyle. It means a return to a proportionality that modern capitalism has totally distorted.

[@ericrobinson7184]

Dude got ears like a baby elephant, I expect him to be on the high end of perceptual trends. Animals! So sensitive, all science is a mirror of them. Tell It, set the chickens cows and pigs free! Eat plants, Aw, but your killing them at near extinction rates. Ed Yong, I bet he got super cute baby pictures, I would pay to see them.

[@youmang]

Democracy now only leaves the comments open on stories that don’t involve DJT. shame I used to think they were unbiased now finding out they’re govt controlled is disheartening

[@barbaralouisebenjamin5918]

Dogs only see in yellow and blue, they depend on their sense of smell.

[@deelee1569]

Always thought about all the crap that's blocking their sense's

[@ΧρίστοςΛούκα-β4φ]

They have senses we never developed in our heads.thedigs barg 3 to5 hours earlier for earthquake my little dog passed now bags about 10 to 15 instead earlier if relatives are coming to visit. THE ONE I HAVE NOW IF IM TIED OR NOT WELL ISS CRYING LIKE HUMAN UNTIL I GO CLOSER AND TOUCH HIM AND SPEND TIME WITH HIM HE SMEELLS IF I HAD KNEES PROBLEM HE PUT HIS NOSE HE SPOTTED THE PROBLEM AT THE EXCACT POINT THESE AND MANY MORE. THANK YOU.

[@jM-bs3yc]

Scented topography

[@canyonroots]

Rupert Sheldrake has been writing on animals and perception...

[@nursejill1474]

That’s why I don’t eat animals.

[@jacpratt8608]

Save the quiet and save the dark.

[@22221mm]

It's so weird to me how German words are adopted into the english language and are supposedly to convey some more complex concept when it's in fact just the direct translation of a english word we see as ordinary. Umwelt= environment, Angst=fear

[@tysonasaurus6392]

I try to let my dog sniff stuff out on walks, so it's nice to hear a professional affirm to me that that's good for him

[@yukonnoka]

People should not keep dogs as pets. They are bad for the environment.

[@straus1482]

Umwelt means environment in German

[@dawncc1]

I had to explain to someone that the walks are about the dogs and not us.

[@dannymeske3821]

Humans have Kundalini!

[@voidisyinyangvoidisyinyang885]

yes humans can develop quantum nonlocal perception just like electric fish or bird migration or photosynthesis. All males were required to do this kundalini training in our original human culture - it's called Tshoma training for N/om. It's over 70,000 years old - so what will it take for "science" to study it and recognize it? haha.

[@dianahill5116]

Darwin knew this.

[@paulheydarian1281]

He liked to play with his living toys.😏

[@MKK520]

"Woman - Life- Freedom '' fights against devils. -On the 40th day since 9 years old Kian Pirfalak was killed by the devil Islamic regime, a 12-year-old girl, named "Saha Etebari '', was also killed by direct shooting at a car in Hormozgan in southern Iran! - The Iran fascism regime returned the plane carrying the wife and daughter of football legend Ali Daei to Iran before landing in Dubai and announced that they are prohibited from leaving! -- Taraneh Alidousti, movie actor and winner of the Cannes and Oscar awards, is still in prison! - Reports of sexual abuse of young innocents girls in the prisons have caused great concern among families. They are not allowed to contact or meet their family! - Why western countries do not put sanctions on top leaders of the Iran Regime?

[@jinxterx]

Be vegan and stop hurting the animals around us.

[@ninaaden8338]

Stop hurting plants too. They are living, breathing things.

[@jinxterx]

@@ninaaden8338 Plants don't have a nervous system, a brain or sentience; it's impossible to hurt them.

[@charleskile3769]

Good grief

[@melbytvenge]

Animals have a 6th sence

[@doilyhead]

Smelling other dogs' markings is a part of the doggie internet. ;-)

[@OohTarquin]

Wee mail !

[@pareensachdeva]

Should I be unsurprised that the subject of Veganism didn’t come up even once, despite the _sense_ of fear and pain being experienced by majority of farm animals, far outnumbering (and outweighing, if that matters) the animals in our homes, shelters & in the wild?

[@billthompson7072]

Epistemological certainly not possible and yet we continue to use words believing it is.

[@robertamineo477]

Egyptian Neters.

[@solesust]

Just look to the ancient Africans for this information it’s all there.

[@kathleenyvonnewestbrook7307]

Feet on the ground, hands 🙌 fulfilling the kingdom of God. Come Lord Jesus ✝️🕯

[@hansbright-mohr5178]

Is this an comparing to humans. Yes it is amy has become a human with a leash. I am a wolf free of this propaganda

[@jacpratt8608]

dogs have sniffer. you have twitter.

[@erickane7093]

So as it is said “What you do to the least, you do to me” So much Catholic/Christian/Jewish/Muslim miss, in their Abrahamic and pre Abrahamic teachings. The pre, is to me, all of our connected with our bio regional living nature. God of Nature. Mammon separated man from nature, by playing God for commodification of creation. Corporate governance: false human, lover of self. Just trying to encourage change! Love!

[@seansmith3058]

Pretty basic stuff to anyone who knows even a little about animals.