Shiitake Happens: The Hidden World Of Microbiology

Episode 182,   Apr 09, 2023, 10:00 PM

Mushrooms are intelligent forms of life, capable of conquering a variety of environments, and in this episode we're chatting with Microbiologist Lina Farfan about theories around them and the universe!

Are fungi smart enough to take over the world? Did life on earth come from comets? What’s the importance of fungi to crops, medicine, and the human brain? And what can all this science tell us about personal development? 

They’re the questions we’re chatting about with Perth Microbiologist Lina Farfan, in this special podcast episode. 

The good news - we’re probably not headed down the path of The Last Of Us. (We made her ASSURE us of this after we finished recording) But there’s still plenty to learn in the meantime about mushies (and the universe)…