A Mr Wen was Zhengzhou, China, was in for a rude shock of his life when the fish that he had just started to fry started moving and flailing about in the pan, according to a report in Lad Bible. Part biography, part memoir, part scientific adventure, Why Fish Don’t Exist is a wondrous fable about how to persevere in a world where chaos will always prevail. Well, a video has gone viral on TikTok of a dead fish suddenly coming back to life and the internet has dubbed it as ‘zombie fish’. What she would unearth about his life would transform her understanding of history, morality, and the world beneath her feet. Perhaps instead he was a model for how to go on when all seemed lost. But as her own life slowly unraveled, she began to wonder about him. When NPR reporter Lulu Miller first heard this anecdote in passing, she took Jordan for a fool-a cautionary tale in hubris, or denial. Still others can switch back and forth depending on the circumstance, such as a variety of coral-dwelling gobies. And this time, he introduced one clever innovation that he believed would at last protect his work against the chaos of the world. But Jordan? He surveyed the wreckage at his feet, found the first fish that he recognized, and confidently began to rebuild his collection. Many might have given up, given in to despair. In an instant, his life’s work was shattered. His specimen collections were demolished by lightning, by fire, and eventually by the 1906 San Francisco earthquake-which sent more than a thousand discoveries, housed in fragile glass jars, plummeting to the floor. But the more of the hidden blueprint of life he uncovered, the harder the universe seemed to try to thwart him. In time, he would be credited with discovering nearly a fifth of the fish known to humans in his day. 'The beginning of the film, the fish are coming back to life, the pollution is going directly to the water, then the. That’s how I felt: Her book took me to strange depths I never imagined, and I was smitten.” - The New York Times Book Reviewĭavid Starr Jordan was a taxonomist, a man possessed with bringing order to the natural world. Barnaby said the film also doubles as a metaphor for environmental catastrophe. “At one point, Miller dives into the ocean into a school of fish…comes up for air, and realizes she’s in love. A Best Book of 2020: The Washington Post * NPR * Chicago Tribune * SmithsonianĪ “remarkable” ( Los Angeles Times), “seductive” ( The Wall Street Journal) debut from the new cohost of Radiolab, Why Fish Don’t Exist is a dark and astonishing tale of love, chaos, scientific obsession, and-possibly-even murder.
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