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About this Episode
On this episode of The Open Mind, we're delighted to welcome Maura O'Connor, a journalist who writes about the politics and ethics of science, technology and conservation. A former Knight Science MIT journalism fellow, O'Connor's work has appeared online in Slate and Foreign Policy in the New Yorker, Harpers, Undark,with investigations covering the disappearances and Sri Lanka's civil war, global agriculture trade in Haiti and American development enterprises in Afghanistan.
Now her new book is “Wayfinding: The Science and Mystery of How Humans Navigate the World.” It's an exploration of navigation traditions, neuroscience, and the diversity of human relationships to space, time and memory, and the distinction between our species and other species and how they collectively and respectively navigate our earth and world.
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