Advice sought after:
I listen to and dictate BBC programs (podcasts) to deter and delay dementia. And oftentimes I come to words and phrases which I cannot catch. It would be appreciated if you can tell me what they are saying and also correct my incorrect catching in the attempted transcript.
Thanks in advance.
BBC CrowdScience: Is a fungus intelligent
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3cszv6v
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Fungi are everywhere, but they are easy to miss. They are inside you, and around you. They sustain you and all of you depend on. As you hear these words, fungi are changing the way that the life happens, as they have done to more than a billion years. They are eating rock, making soil, digesting pollutants, manipulating animal behaviour and influencing composition of the earth's atmosphere.
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That's fungal ecologist Merlin Sheldrake, reading for this new book “Entangled Life - how fungi make our worlds, change our minds and shape our futures”. I began by asking Merlin why he wanted to write this book.
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One of the basic reasons is that fungi are so neglected and I wanted to write something that it would invite people to consider these organisms more. Fungi intersect with so many aspects of the living world and so it's hard to think about fungi without also think about all the other organisms that they spend their lives enmeshed with. And all the different ways they interact with human over the course of our histories.
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Fungi seem superficially similar to plants but actually they are closer to animals in terms of evolution. And they are also you can ???(1)??? they are also really central to the story of life on Earth in terms of evolution ???(2)??? on this planet.
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