How likely is the fungal infection in The Last of Us? The one that takes over human brains and brings humanity to the brink of extinction, could that really happen?
In this episode we sit down with Emily Monosson, an expert in deadly fungal infections, and discuss the handful we know of that are today causing catastrophic declines in wildlife, eradicating trees, destroying crops, and increasingly impacting humans. Many in the field worry that fungi are an underestimated threat and that our actions are causing an increase in invasive and deadly fungal epidemics.
We explore what is at stake, why this is happening now, and what we can do to prevent future outbreaks.
• Emily Monosson's Website
• Blight: Fungi and the Coming Pandemic
• 2013 Trailer for The Last of Us
• Newsletter
• How Minds Change
• David McRaney’s Twitter
• YANSS Twitter
• Show Notes
285 - What Do You Mean? - Celeste Kidd (rebroadcast)
284 - Awe - Dacher Keltner (rebroadcast)
283 - Cultures of Growth - Mary C. Murphy
282 - They Thought We Were Ridiculous - Andy Luttrell
281 - More Chat, Less Bot - Jeremy Utley, Kian Gohar, Henrik Werdelin
280 - Supercommunicators - Charles Duhigg
YANSS 279 - Pluralistic Ignorance (rebroadcast)
278 - An Admirable Point - Florence Hazrat
277 - Visual Thinking - Temple Grandin (rebroadcast)
276 - How to Stand up to a Bully - Andrea Chalupa
274 - Cascades - Greg Satell
273 - The Conspiracy Test - Jesse Richardson
272 - Quit! - Annie Duke (rebroadcast)
271 - Survival of the Richest - Douglas Rushkoff (rebroadcast)
270 - Defining Genius
269 - Deconstructing How Minds Change - Michael Taft
268 - The Status Game - Will Storr (rebroadcast)
267 - Do Your Own Research - Sedona Chinn
266 - Project Alpha - Brian Brushwood
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