Cosmic Queries - The Fungus Among Us with Merlin Sheldrake

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🗓️ 27 July 2021

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Can mushrooms take over your mind? On this episode, Neil deGrasse Tyson and comic co-host Matt Kirshen explore the weird world of fungi with fun-guy fungus expert and ecologist, Merlin Sheldrake. Could inactive spores survive space?

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0:00.0	Welcome to Star Talk.
0:04.0	You're a place in the universe where science and pop culture collide.
0:10.0	Star Talk begins right now.
0:14.0	This is Star Talk.
0:16.0	For the EO, your personal astrophysicist, this is going to be a cosmic queries addition on the subject of mushrooms.
0:25.0	We're going to find out where they come from, what they're doing and why, and especially what is their relationship to humans.
0:32.0	And I got Matt Kirshen as my co-host. Matt, how you doing, man?
0:35.0	I'm very good, Neil. How's it going?
0:37.0	It's been too long.
0:38.0	Yeah, it's nice to be back.
0:40.0	I miss you. And you're host of...
0:42.0	Did I get it right? Probably science?
0:44.0	That is exactly it.
0:45.0	It's going to wait this time.
0:48.0	Excellent. I'm a one-time guest on your show.
0:51.0	That's all.
0:52.0	That's all. One time.
0:54.0	We would have you back in a heartbeat.
0:56.0	I never want to abuse my connections, friendships.
0:59.0	Your access, privileges.
1:01.0	Okay, but I love it when you're out there just bringing science to the public in a whole other way.
1:08.0	And you're an important sort of cog in a wheel that we're all trying to keep turning.
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