Lauren Ober is the host of WAMU’s The Big Listen (a podcast about podcasts!) and she came to us with a relatively straightforward question: what is wind?
On paper, UCLA’s Marcus Roper — an expert in math and fungi — seems like an unlikely expert on the subject. But he not only explains to us how wind works, but how mushrooms can catch a breeze by creating one themselves.
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