Episode Summary

In Episode #60, the spirited Eugenia Bone joins Jef Szi and the How Humans Work Podcast for a high-energy dive into the astonishing world of bacteria and fungi.

Eugenia is an author of several books and cookbooks, including Microbia, Have a Good Trip, and Mycophilia. She brings her experience studying microbiology and longstanding affection for mycology to show, providing incredible portraits of the invisible world that pervades our lives.

With a great vibe and oodles of energy, Eugenia walks us through various fascinating and wild features of this unseen ecological world. Among the things we discover with her is how bacteria bridge the unliving world and the living world, how collaborations between archaea, bacteria, fungi, and plants are at work in and around us, and how to appreciate the mystery of nature.

There’s a magic and beauty in this conversation. As the final episode in the Social Cohesion season, this episode with Eugenia gives us a renewed sense of awe for the micro-world. It invites us to glimpse the ground floor of unseeable life, surrounding us in a shroud that we depend on but can never fully comprehend.

Thank you, Eugenia, for being a dynamic and fun conveyor of this special and essential facet of life.

Listeners: please enjoy the conversation and contact me to share your questions and feedback.