James Nestor is the author of the New York Times bestseller Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art, which explores the link between how we breathe and some of the most common health issues. Drawing on both cutting-edge research in pulmonology, psychology, biochemistry, and human physiology, and ancient wisdom, Breath covers how the way humans breathe has changed for the worse over the millennia. In his own words, “The answers, I discovered, weren’t found in pulmonology labs but in the muddy digs of ancient burial sites, secret Soviet facilities, New Jersey choir schools, and the smoggy streets of Sao Paulo.”

James is also the author of Deep: Freediving, Renegade Science, and What the Ocean Tells Us about Ourselves, in which he reveals how free drivers train themselves to spend minutes underwater on a single breath. In 2016, he co-created “The Click Effect”, a VR documentary based on a chapter of Deep which is one of the most viewed VR films ever. In 2017, he helped to launch Project CETI, an interdisciplinary research initiative bringing together leading cryptographers, roboticists, linguists, AI experts, technologists and marine scientists with the goal of translating sperm whale communication. **