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slash UK slash AI for people. Welcome to Scientific American Science of Summer Reading.

I'm your host, Deboki Chuck Reverdi.

Sometimes on Science Talk, we have conversations with authors about their books, but this series is a little different.

What I love as a reader is seeing how books can end up feeling like they're in conversation with each other, even when they're not written to do that.

So this month, I'm taking on two science books at a time and just chatting with you about them.

I'll be talking through what the authors made me think and feel.

Maybe you've read these books yourself. Maybe you've even had some of the

same feelings. Or maybe not. And if you haven't read them, well, maybe the science book talk

will inspire you too. Today we're going to talk about two books that describe two different parts

of nature, fungi and moss, two forms of life that we're going to talk about two books that describe two different parts of nature,

fungi and moss, two forms of life that we're likely all familiar with, but that some of us,

me, have probably overlooked. But it's the fact of how easily they're overlooked that makes

fungi and moss useful portals into understanding a wider ecology

that they and we belong to. Prologue, the books. The first book is Entangled Life,

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