EP #193 - 12.23.2020 - A Journalist Confronts 2020 with Ed Young

Today we have a discussion with Ed Yong science writer for The Atlantic, whose exceptional stories this year have set the bar for pandemic reporting.

Ed Yong is a science journalist who reports for The Atlantic, and is based in Washington DC. 

His work appears on The Atlantic's website and its print magazine; it has also featured in National Geographic, the New Yorker, Wired, Nature, New Scientist, Scientific American, and many more. He has won several awards, including the Victor Cohn Prize for medical science reporting, the Neil and Susan Sheehan Award for investigative journalism, and a AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Award for in-depth reporting in 2020 among many others.  He regularly does talks and interviews, and his TED talk on mind-controlling parasites has been watched by over 1.5 million people. 

I CONTAIN MULTITUDES, his first book, looks at the amazing partnerships between animals and microbes. Published in 2016, it became a New York Times bestseller, and was listed in best-of-2016 lists by the NYT, NPR, the Economist, the Guardian, and several others. His second book, AN IMMENSE WORLD, will look at the extraordinary sensory worlds of other animals.