We share our planet with other living beings and all of us share an ability to glean energy and sensory stimulation from the physical world. How exactly we do that is a question with which scientists, poets, and theologians all wrestle as humans who ask questions. Wonder and curiosity about our lives connects all of us as human beings and so it perhaps should not be surprising that we could sit down with a couple scientists and end up in a discussion about the joys of cooking and the sensory abilities of migratory birds as sources of inspiration, just as we might talk with artists about their engagement with concepts and physics and the stuff of everyday life.
Recently, we had an opportunity to have just such a conversation with a pair of scientists, Dr. Shahir Rizk and Dr. Maggie Fink, about their new book, The Color of North: The Molecular Language of Proteins and the Future of Life. We had a wide-ranging talk about the art of science (and vice versa). The conversation will invite you to think differently about how birds — and humans — find their way.
The Measure of Everyday Life 