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
107 - Debate
106 - The Climate Paradox (rebroadcast)
105 - Optimism Bias
104 - Labels (rebroadcast)
103 - Desirability Bias
102 - WEIRD Science (rebroadcast)
101 - Naive Realism (rebroadcast)
100 - The Replication Crisis
099 - The Half Life of Facts
098 - Active Information Avoidance
097 - Scams (rebroadcast)
096 - Progress
095 - The Backfire Effect - Part Three
094 - The Backfire Effect - Part Two
093 - The Backfire Effect - Part One
091 - Learned Helplessness (rebroadcast)
090 - Reality - Donald Hoffman
089 - Connections - James Burke
088 - Moral Arguments
087 - Paranoia
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