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
026 - Maslow's Hammer
025 - Enclothed Cognition - Hajo Adam
024 - Sleep - Richard Wiseman
023 - Inbetweenisode 4 - The Illusion of Asymmetric Insight
022 - Survivorship Bias - Megan Price
021 - Inbetweenisode 3 - Christina Draganich
020 - The Future - James Burke and Matt Novak
019 - The Placebo Effect - Kristi Erdal
018 - Inbetweenisode - The Benjamin Franklin Effect
016 - Conspiracy Theories - Steven Novella and Jesse Walker
015 - Inbetweenisode - Narrative Bias
014 - Narratives - Melanie C. Green
013 - Technology - Clive Thompson
012 - Jealousy
011 - Culture
010 - Perversion
009 - Arguing
008 - Video Games
007 - Common Sense
004 - Money
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