Summary
A lab at the University of Oklahoma wants your dirt -- really. A viral post on Reddit brought awareness to this fascinating program, which studies fungi from soil samples from around the country with the hopes of discovering new disease-curing medicines.
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| 0:00.0 | Produced by the island at WBUR Boston. |
| 0:11.8 | Emory and I are trying to help save humanity. |
| 0:14.9 | In a public park with some instructions for digging for fungi, a plan to do some light, |
| 0:21.1 | soil theft and an envelope of stuff. |
| 0:24.6 | Oh, yeah. |
| 0:25.6 | Oh, he's already dropping things. |
| 0:28.6 | Oh, look at this little scooper. |
| 0:30.5 | See, I told you. |
| 0:31.8 | She said that there would be a little shovel. |
| 0:34.0 | Do you know that salt and pepper song scoop, scoop, and oop, scoop, and oop, scoop, and oop, scoop, and oop. |
| 0:40.3 | You are a scamp. |
| 0:44.3 | Girls, what's my weakness? |
| 0:46.3 | Soil. |
| 0:47.3 | All right. |
| 0:49.3 | A little less singing, a little more scooping. |
| 0:52.3 | Okay. |
| 0:53.3 | I think the more wood chips you have, the less fungi you have. |
| 0:55.7 | Okay, tear the top off the collection bag along the perforation. |
| 0:59.7 | Okay. |
| 1:00.7 | Also, I want to be the one to get the air out of the bag, because that's, that's like a very |
| 1:04.0 | amery task. |
| 1:05.0 | I like that kind of stuff. |
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