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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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
MyCommentsRMaturelol
April 28, 2023 at 12:16 pm
Weird unrelated title. cool stuff.
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
Carson Gould
April 28, 2023 at 12:43 pm
Paul staments and Dennis McKenna have some really interesting research on this
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.
Guildar Daze
April 28, 2023 at 12:57 pm
No relation with the title
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
Micaela
April 28, 2023 at 1:36 pm
So interesting
Abdullah Shah
April 28, 2023 at 1:54 pm
THE LAST OF US
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
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 ????
istvan jegels
April 28, 2023 at 3:48 pm
Funjeye
John Chapman
April 28, 2023 at 3:51 pm
Seems like a fun..guy
Bidyo
April 29, 2023 at 9:17 am
????
cee Jay
April 28, 2023 at 6:07 pm
What If?
Joey Carter
April 28, 2023 at 10:09 pm
Ok but where do you get that shirt?
FractalCrescendo
April 28, 2023 at 10:36 pm
You ever consider the possibility that humanity shouldn’t survive?
Ar. Malavika Jayan
April 30, 2023 at 12:33 am
Is he the voice of What If??
Levi Smith
April 30, 2023 at 3:12 pm
This reminds me of star trek. Traveling through space on the mycelial network
lilly kornacki
April 30, 2023 at 9:32 pm
That’s interesting
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