Maureen's new book is about the extraordinary new sensory research for St. Martin's Press. FEARFULLY AND WONDERFULLY MADE: THE ASTONISHING NEW SCIENCE OF THE SENSES has been named a "must-read" by Malcolm Gladwell and his team at the Next Big Idea Club. In 2016, scientists proved that humans could see light at the level of a single photon. We are living in historic times when humans may look at the very fabric of the universe in a laboratory setting. Around the world, other recent discoveries about the senses are just as astounding. It turns out we can hear amplitudes smaller than an atom, smell a trillion scents, have a set of taste buds that can discern molecules of fresh water, and can feel through the sense of touch the difference of a single molecule. Fearfully and Wonderfully Made takes readers through their own bodies, delving into the molecular and even the quantum, and tells the story of our magnificent sensorium and what it means for the next wave of human potential. From the laboratories to the ordinary homes where these breakthroughs are taking place, the book explores our current sensory Renaissance and shows readers how they, themselves, can heighten their own senses and experience the miraculous. Maureen is the coauthor of STRUCK BY GENIUS: HOW A BRAIN INJURY MADE ME A MATHEMATICAL MARVEL with savant Jason Padgett. Maureen has written for the New York Times, National Geographic, ESPN the magazine, Vogue, Glamour, Psychology Today, the Daily Beast and many other venues. My nature photos and videography have also been featured in National Geographic. Her writing has been optioned for dramatization eight times. Maureen has several forms of synesthesia, including the profound empathy of mirror touch and in 2013 tested positive for the genetic basis for tetrachromacy, or the presence of a fourth cone class for color perception in my eyes. I have subsequently tested positive for functionality through Arizona State University by a team led by Kristopher Jake Patten, Ph.D. and including Nobel Prize-winning physicist Frank Wilczek. Vogue called Maureen the "Girl with Kaleidoscope Eyes" in a feature in 2014. I'm very honored to have collaborated with MAC Cosmetics as the inspiration for and color consultant on a line of super-pigmented lipstick called Liptensity. Reports about Maureen have appeared in the New Yorker, New York Magazine, NPR, Allure, French Vogue, Teen Vogue, Glamour, Elle, Cosmopolitan, NYLON, Refinery29, Women's Wear Daily, TEDWeekends and many other publications. She is an alumna of the inaugural Norman Mailer Writers Colony. _______________________________________ Be sure to subscribe to this channel so you don't miss a show! Visit our website and join the X! www.unxnetwork.comBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/unx-news-podcast-with-margie-kay--5231151/support.Un-X News is broadcast on the UnXplained Network weekly. Check out all of our great shows on Spreaker! Join the X at www.unxnetwork.com to get our daily newsletter and more perks! The X offers more - On-Demand workshops on a variety of subjects, a bi-monthly magazine, our news blog, and the X Club group. Join the X family!

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