The Mystery of Mushrooms with Bryn Dentinger

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🗓️ 6 February 2024

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Why are some mushrooms delicious, some make you high, and some kill you? Neil deGrasse Tyson and comedian Chuck Nice discover the weird world of mushrooms, psilocybin, and mycelia with mycologist Bryn Dentinger.

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0:00.0	Coming up on Star Talk, Cosmic Quarries all about silocybin that hallucinogenic chemical found in mushrooms.
0:10.0	I have no particular expertise in this, but we found someone who does an expert on mushrooms.
0:16.8	In the next episode of Star Talk, there is fungus. Welcome to Star Talk.
0:25.0	Your place in the universe where science and pop culture collide.
0:30.0	Star Talk begins right now.
0:33.7	This is Star Talk.
0:38.5	Neil Degrass Tyson here,
0:39.7	you're a personal astrophysicist.
0:42.0	Today we're doing Cosmic Quarries. personal astrophysicist. They were doing cosmic queries on none other than
0:47.8	silosibin. Oh my gosh. Chuck, nice. Nice.
0:53.0	You haven't done one of these before.
0:55.0	The Sala Simon or the queries?
0:57.0	Queries on Sala Tiber.
1:00.0	I don't think I've done either, to be honest.
1:02.0	Yeah, that's the voice of Chuck nice.
1:04.4	Chuck always good to have you man.
1:05.9	Always a pleasure. Yeah so silent assignment well I have no expertise in this
1:10.6	and you may have user's expertise but we need. in this is a lot I'm intending to this is what I'm intending to this the
1:18.4	fundamentally academic show well I certainly have no expertise in this subject and I don't know if Chuck, you do?
1:28.0	I intend to.
1:29.0	Okay.
1:30.0	So, but we, since we find the academics wherever they roam, where the expertise can be found,
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