The wavewatcher's companion

The wavewatcher's companion by Gavin Pretor-Pinney is a 2010 Science & Technology book written by TED speaker Gavin Pretor-Pinney, paired here with the talk they gave.

One bright February afternoon, on a beach in Cornwall, Gavin Pretor-Pinney took a break from cloudspotting and started watching the waves rolling into shore. Mesmerised, he wondered where they had come from, and decided to find out. He soon realised that waves don't just appear on the ocean, they are everywhere around us, and our lives depend on them. From the rippling beats of our hearts, to the movement of food through our digestive tracts and of signals across our brains, waves are the transport systems of our bodies.

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