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Could Fungi Actually Be the Key to Humanity’s Survival?

David Andrew Quist is a mushroom researcher and restauranteur. His current work combines both his passion for gastronomy and science; by exploring the culinary potential of fungal mycelium as an innovative new category of food — nutritious, delicious and sustainable. Watch his full TED Talk:

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David Andrew Quist is a mushroom researcher and restauranteur. His current work combines both his passion for gastronomy and science; by exploring the culinary potential of fungal mycelium as an innovative new category of food — nutritious, delicious and sustainable. Watch his full TED Talk:

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  1. Nevada G

    April 28, 2023 at 12:13 pm

    This is something I learned in AP biology , and was FASCINATED by it. Plants and fungi are so cool

  2. MyCommentsRMaturelol

    April 28, 2023 at 12:16 pm

    Weird unrelated title. cool stuff.

  3. Hacking Tutorial

    April 28, 2023 at 12:18 pm

    Very interesting.
    What do you think will happen if the earth’s temperature rises slightly in just 1 or 2 years?
    Hmmm ????

    • Mohammed Smadi

      April 28, 2023 at 8:30 pm

      Oh hold on there ????????????
      Just imagine
      Last of us rl

  4. Carson Gould

    April 28, 2023 at 12:43 pm

    Paul staments and Dennis McKenna have some really interesting research on this

  5. Trevor13666

    April 28, 2023 at 12:50 pm

    What’s this got to do with Humanity’s survival?

    • Crow Kraehenfrau

      April 29, 2023 at 7:55 am

      Because fungi help the plant store more carbon dioxide and slows the process of releasing it into the atmosphere.

  6. Guildar Daze

    April 28, 2023 at 12:57 pm

    No relation with the title

  7. Anticonformist

    April 28, 2023 at 1:06 pm

    Can you imagine if fungus was actually a biological tech developed by aliens and sent to many planets to help any biological life that crops up to thrive?

    • Zach Franklin

      April 28, 2023 at 9:09 pm

      this was kind of a plot in Legends of Tomorrow: mushrooms themselves are an alien species that protect the earth from hostile/invading aliens and at the same time provide magic to humans/earth

    • Commenter

      April 29, 2023 at 10:11 am

      now I can

  8. Micaela

    April 28, 2023 at 1:36 pm

    So interesting

  9. Abdullah Shah

    April 28, 2023 at 1:54 pm

    THE LAST OF US

  10. Willtato

    April 28, 2023 at 2:19 pm

    Thats a new pronunciation I haven’t heard before…

    • Arawaks

      April 28, 2023 at 3:10 pm

      Fun Jay

  11. Commenter

    April 28, 2023 at 2:27 pm

    whoa this is crazy. Plants have had internet since ever. And apparently it’s fiber, not wi-fi

    • Bidyo

      April 29, 2023 at 9:18 am

      yeah… just wired very fast and not wireless kinda slow ????

  12. istvan jegels

    April 28, 2023 at 3:48 pm

    Funjeye

  13. John Chapman

    April 28, 2023 at 3:51 pm

    Seems like a fun..guy

    • Bidyo

      April 29, 2023 at 9:17 am

      ????

  14. cee Jay

    April 28, 2023 at 6:07 pm

    What If?

  15. Joey Carter

    April 28, 2023 at 10:09 pm

    Ok but where do you get that shirt?

  16. FractalCrescendo

    April 28, 2023 at 10:36 pm

    You ever consider the possibility that humanity shouldn’t survive?

  17. Ar. Malavika Jayan

    April 30, 2023 at 12:33 am

    Is he the voice of What If??

  18. Levi Smith

    April 30, 2023 at 3:12 pm

    This reminds me of star trek. Traveling through space on the mycelial network

  19. lilly kornacki

    April 30, 2023 at 9:32 pm

    That’s interesting

  20. Samuel Zev

    May 1, 2023 at 9:11 am

    This somehow resonates a last of us vibe, where the the cordyceps take over a human host turning them into zombies, perhaps this too could be similar

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