In our latest piece of bonus content, senior producer Benjamin Austin-Docampo chats with rhetorician Melissa T. Yang, PhD., about eccentric gentlemen scientists, the power of obsession, and why we can't stop watching birds.

Melissa T. Yang is a multidisciplinary scholar and writer who teaches composition courses grounded in the environmental humanities. She is an assistant teaching professor and the director of the Writing Center at Emory University. And she is the author of several academic journal articles about the effect birds have had on the English language, as well as the article "By Shattering the Vulture's Nose," published in The Goose Vol. 18 Num. 2, which examines John James Audubon and Charles Waterton's, quote: "niche but sensational debate on avian olfaction, and its problematic influence on scientific progress." and the author of several academic journal articles about the effect birds have had on the English language.

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