Inner Nature: Exteroception
By Vidya Rajan, Columnist, The Times
This is the eighth and last of the “Senses” series where I will explore unusual senses that interrogate the environment, including magnetoreception, electroreception, astronavigation, polarized light perception, electrogenesis and electroreception, thermoreception, chronoreception, seismoreception and hygroreception.[1] These may well be called “sixth senses”...
Inner Nature: Making sense of the senses
By Vidya Rajan, Columnist, The Times
In the brilliant movie adaptation of the potboiler Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton,[1] there is an early gripping scene where the Tyrannosaurus rex’s enormous head is just inches away from the paleontologist-protagonist, who whispers to two children beside him that the predator could not detect them if they stayed perfectly still. I remember my outrage as a...
