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
046 - Inbetweenisode 11 - Steven Novella
045 - Doctors - Danielle Ofri
044 - Inbetweenisode - James Burke And Matt Novak (Rebroadcast)
043 - Misremembering - Julia Shaw and Dan Simons
042 - Bodily Resonance - Lara Maister
041 - Inbetweenisode - The Game/Ceiling Crasher
040 - Monkey Marketplace - Laurie Santos
039 - Blind Insight - Ryan Scott
038 - Inbetweenisode - The Halo Effect
037 - Motivation - Daniel Pink
036 - The Dunning-Kruger Effect
035 - Inbetweenisode - The Sunk Cost Fallacy
034 - The Post Hoc Fallacy
033 - Belief - Will Storr
032 - Ego Depletion
031 - Extinction Burst
030 - Practice - David Epstein
029 - Labels - Adam Alter
028 - Crowds - Michael Bond
027 - Science Communication - Joe Hanson
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