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
087 - Paranoia
086 - Change My View
085 - Misremembering - Julia Shaw (rebroadcast)
084 - Getting Gamers - Jamie Madigan
083 - Idiot Brain - Dean Burnett
082 - Crowds (rebroadcast)
081 - The Climate Paradox
080 - Deep Canvassing
079 - Separate Spheres
078 - The Existential Fallacy
077 - The Conjunction Fallacy
076 - The Genetic Fallacy
075 - Special Pleading / Moving the Goalposts
074 - Begging The Question
073 - Bayes' Theorem
072 - The Dunning-Kruger Effect (Rebroadcast)
071 - The Texas Sharpshooter Fallacy
070 - The No True Scotsman Fallacy
069 - The Black And White Fallacy
068 - The Strawman Fallacy
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