The Ed's Up - Spark Region
An oak titmouse looking down from a perch (Photo by Ed Yong) I guess I'm a birder now Many birders have a particular species that ignited their interest in...
The Ed's Up - Migrations
("Sooty Shearwater" by tombenson76 is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0.) Last Saturday, I visited Point Arena, California with my wife and two friends. We...
The Ed's Up - A Slightly Lighter Immense World
Hi all, A Slightly Lighter Immense World I'm delighted to say that the paperback of AN IMMENSE WORLD will be out in three weeks, on August 29. This is an...
The Ed's Up - An Ending...
Hello! It seems like only yesterday that I last emailed you... which is because it was yesterday. Sorry for filling your inbox so soon, but I have two...
The Ed's Up - What Fatigue Really Means
Hi all, First, let me briefly note that I've moved from Tinyletter to Buttondown. Same newsletter, slightly different look. This platform has much better...
The Ed's Up #217
How Psychopaths See the World "Most of us mentalize automatically. From infancy, other minds involuntarily seep into our own. The same thing, apparently,...
The Ed's Up #216
Captive Orangutans Are Curious (But Wild Ones Are Not) "When Carel van Schaik reached the top of his rope ladder, his first thought was: “Oh shit, there’s an...
The Ed's Up #215
A Breast-Cancer Surgeon Returns to Work After Breast Cancer "Earlier this month, Liz O’Riordan found herself once again, scalpel in hand, staring down at a...
The Ed's Up #214
I Spent Two Years Trying to Fix the Gender Imbalance in My Stories "I found that ratio in my work, too. Shortly after Adrienne published her analysis, I...
The Ed's Up #213
When Your Eyes Move, So Do Your Eardrums "Without moving your head, look to your left. Now look to your right. Keep flicking your eyes back and forth, left...
The Ed's Up #212
Why Did Two-Thirds of These Weird Antelope Suddenly Drop Dead? "It took just three weeks for two-thirds of all the world’s saiga to die. It took much longer...
The Ed's Up #211
Brain Cells Share Information With Virus-Like Capsules "Shepherd studies a gene called Arc which is active in neurons, and plays a vital role in the brain. A...
The Ed's Up #210
Happy new year, from me and my new (and very on-brand) mug. And now, on with the show. The Transgender Scientist Who Changed How We See the Brain "Barres was...
The Ed's Up #209
Turning Piglets Into Personalized Avatars for Sick Kids "When Charles Konsitzke and Dhanu Shanmuganayagam first met, they were both just trying to get some...
The Ed's Up #208
The Desirability of Storytellers "At first, Migliano wasn’t actually interested in storytelling. She wanted to know what qualities the Agta most value in...
The Ed's Up #207
Hummingbirds Are Where Intuition Goes to Die "“This has been going on literally under our noses for the entire history of our association with hummingbirds...
The Ed's Up #206
New Zealand’s War on Rats Could Change the World "In recent years, many of the country’s conservationists and residents have rallied behind Predator-Free...
The Ed's Up 205
A Dying Boy Gets a New, Gene-Corrected Skin "At the age of 7, Hassan had already seen more than his fair share of hardship. A week after he was born in...
The Ed's Up #204
I Contain Multitudes: The Series, Episode 2 Here's the second of the video series that adapts stories from my book. This one's about drug-resistant bacteria....
The Ed's Up #203
I Contain Multitudes: The Series Here's the first video from a series that's based on my book. There'll be at least 11 of these, with one coming out every...