Ed Yong on Transcending Our Senses (with a Corgi)

“That, to me, is like a deeply magical and profound idea: That all our life, billions of years of history have left us with this narrow view of the world that is well suited to our needs. But we can choose to go beyond that. We can choose to transcend our own limits and to think about parts of the experience available to us that we don’t normally tap into.”

Ed Yong is a Pulitzer Prize–winning science writer on the staff of The Atlantic, where he also won the George Polk Award for science reporting, among other honors. His first book, I Contain Multitudes, was a New York Times bestseller and won numerous awards. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, National Geographic, Wired, The New York Times, Scientific American, and more. He lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife, Liz Neeley, and their corgi, Typo.