Join our podcast host and former NYT editor David Corcoran as he talks with Kerstin Hoppenhaus and Sibylle Grunze about their Undark documentary on stem rust. Also: commentator Seth Mnookin on how people get their science news; and reporter Kate Morgan visits a fossil park in New Jersey where dinosaurs met their fate.
A full transcript of the podcast follows.
David Corcoran: This is Undark. We’re a magazine devoted to exploring the intersection of science and society, and we’re this podcast. Hello again, and welcome to Episode 23. I’m David Corcoran.
For our cover story, the Fungus That Threatens the World. It sounds like the title of a bad horror movie, but this is all too real. It’s about a crop killer with the innocent name “stem rust,” and it’s no exaggeration to say it could do catastrophic damage to a food source on which literally billions of people depend.
Joining us to talk about this menace are two reporters who produced a six-part video for…
