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
267 - Do Your Own Research - Sedona Chinn
266 - Project Alpha - Brian Brushwood
265 - Chess Queens - Jennifer Shahade (rebroadcast)
264 - Nobody's Fool - Dan Simons and Christopher Chabris
263 - The Truth Wins - Tom Stafford (rebroadcast)
262 - If It Sounds Like a Quack - Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling
261 - Hack Your Bureaucracy - Marina Nitze
260 - The Science of Stuck - Britt Frank (rebroadcast)
259 - Think Again - Adam Grant (rebroadcast)
258 - Under Alien Skies - Phil Plait
257 - What Do You Mean? - Celeste Kidd
256 - The Persuaders - Anand Giridharadas
255 - Good Arguments - Bo Seo
254 - I Never Thought of It That Way - Mónica Guzmán
253 - The World's Greatest Con - Brian Brushwood (rebroadcast)
252 - Procrastination - Britt Frank
251 - Come up for Air - Nick Sonnenberg
250 - Awe - Dacher Keltner
249 - The Power of Surprise (rebroadcast)
248 - Visual Thinking - Temple Grandin
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