Big Picture Science - Fungi Fear
The zombie eco-thriller
“The Last of Us” has alerted us to the threats posed by fungi. But the show is
not entirely science fiction. Our vulnerability to pathogenic fungi is
more real than many people imagine.
Find out what human
activity drives global fungal threats, including their menace to food crops and
many other species. Our high body temperature has long kept lethal fungi in
check; but will climate change cause fungi to adapt to warmer temperatures and
threaten our health?
Plus, a radically new
way to think about these organisms, how they make all life possible, and how we
might find balance again.
Guests:
- Emily Monosson – Toxicologist who writes about changes in the natural world. A member of the Ronin Institute and a professor at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, she is the author of “Blight: Fungi and the Coming Pandemic.”
- Arturo Casadevall – Microbiologist, immunologist, professor of medicine at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.
- Michael Hathaway – Anthropologist, director of the Asian Studies Center at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada, and author of “What a Mushroom Lives For.”
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