275 - Blight - Emily Monosson

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🗓️ 11 December 2023

⏱️ 47 minutes

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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 something like that really happen? In this episode we sit down with Emily Monosson, an expert on deadly fungal infections, and discuss the handful of fungi (we know of) that are today, right now, causing catastrophic declines in wildlife, eradicating trees, destroying crops, and increasingly impacting humans. Monsoon explains that 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.

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0:10.0	and gay.
0:11.0	Yeah, we were cool, we got by the bed. They went tired. Welcome to the You Are Not So Smart Podcast.
0:27.0	Episode 275. Oh, uh, oh, oh, oh, Oh, oh. This audio that you're hearing is from The Last of Us, HBO's The Last of Us,
1:00.0	when our protagonists find themselves in an abandoned post-apocalyptic, dark illuminated by flashlights,
1:08.0	museum, and for the first time in the story, they confront a group of clickers. Oh boy the last of us the HBO series is based on a 2013 video game of the same name
1:32.2	and most of it is seen for seen word for word and even a lot of the
1:37.1	gameplay is in the show and in the game when you're roaming around and you hear this sound,
1:43.0	The last of us is a story about what might happen if all of humanity was brought to the brink of extinction by a human-fungal pathogen, a fungus that could infect human beings. In the universe of the game and the show a form of
2:07.0	courticeps evolves the ability to get into the human nervous system and take over the
2:11.9	brain of the victim which is a thing that
2:14.8	real cortisps can do to insects and arachnids mostly, not people, but it
2:21.5	imagines what if that would happen because when it does get into insects and arachnids,
2:25.0	it really does take over their minds and encourages them to do things
2:30.0	that will help the fungus spread to other hosts. In the last
2:34.5	of us it eventually bursts through the face of the victim and renders that person
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