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Librarian's Choice Book Club

Librarian's Choice Book Club

Join Carolina for a lively book discussion about our non-fiction book How to Speak Whale by Tom Mustill.

About the book:

On September 12, 2015, Tom Mustill was paddling in a two-person kayak with a friend just off the coast of California. It was cold, but idyllic—until a humpback whale breached, landing on top of them, releasing the energy equivalent of forty hand grenades. He was certain he was about to die, but they both survived, miraculously unscathed. In the interviews that followed the incident, Mustill was left with one question: What could this astonishing encounter teach us?
 
Drawing from his experience as a naturalist and wildlife filmmaker, Mustill started investigating human–whale interactions around the world when he met two tech entrepreneurs who wanted to use artificial intelligence (AI)—originally designed to translate human languages—to discover patterns in the conversations of animals and decode them. As he embarked on a journey into animal eavesdropping technologies, where big data meets big beasts, Mustill discovered that there is a revolution taking place in biology, as the technologies developed to explore our own languages are turned to nature.

Date:
Monday, October 23, 2023
Time:
7:30pm - 8:30pm
BCCLS Library:
Fair Lawn's Maurice M. Pine Library
Online:
This is an online event.
Event URL:
https://fairlawnlibrary.org
Audience:
  Adults     Seniors  
Categories:
  Adult  
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