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
067 - The Fallacy Fallacy
065 - Survivorship Bias (rebroadcast)
064 - Monkey Marketplace - Laurie Santos (rebroadcast)
063 - The Search Effect - Matthew Fisher
062 - Naive Realism - Lee Ross
061 - Mindfulness - Michael Taft
060 - Reframing - Robert R. Morris
059 - The Illusion Of Control - Michael And Sarah Bennett
058 - Technology - Clive Thompson (Rebroadcast)
057 - PTSD - Robert D. Laird
056 - Magicians And Scams - Brian Brushwood
055 - WEIRD People - Steven J. Heine
054 - The Self - Bruce Hood (rebroadcast)
053 - Adaptive Learning - Ulrik Christensen
052 - Learned Helplessness
051 - Work - Laszlo Bock
050 - Happy Money - Elizabeth Dunn (rebroadcast)
049 - Rejection - Jia Jiang
048 - Contact
047 - Public Shaming - Jon Ronson
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