Merlin Sheldrake, Ph.D. is a biologist and writer and with a background in plant sciences, microbiology, ecology, and the history of philosophy of science. He received his Ph.D. in tropical ecology from Cambridge University for his work on underground fungal networks in tropical forests in Panama, where he was a pre-doctoral research fellow at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute. He's also a musician and a keen fermenter. He is the author of Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds, & Shape Our Futures (Random House 2020).

Interview Date: 5/19/2020       Tags: Merlin Sheldrake, fungi, decomposers, Roundup, soil communities, fungicides, Paul Stamets, bee colony collapse, Steve Sheppard, antivirals, Peter McCoy, amateur mycologists, Mary Hunt, microbial crowdsourcing, fungal architectures, domesticated minerals, Ecology/Nature/Environment, Science, Indigenous wisdom