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TED: Paul Stamets: 6 ways mushrooms can save the world

submitted by Trancecoach

1 decade 6 years 6 months 1 week ago

Mycologist Paul Stamets studies the mycelium -- and lists 6 ways that this astonishing fungus can help save the world (and no, none involve human ingestion).

23 Comments

This was rather interesting.

BenyBen says...

Great post! Thank you

Fantastic post.

dag

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That blew my mind. The guy knows his shrooms.

*promote

Promoting this video back to the front page; last published Sunday, May 18th, 2008 8:38pm PDT - promote requested by kulpims.

upvote for the brilliant microbiology... oh, and I almost forgot...saving the world

amazing...

Fantastic speaker.

So perfectly brilliant!

Woot!

Mushrooms FTW!

hmmm...

So, he is saying that the fungus acts as a nervous/circulatory system for the planet. He is advising the human race form a tight bond with this fungus.

Begin Secret Project: Voice of Planet.

Micophobia....i not skeered

Brilliant insights, fungus is our eternal pal-
This guy gets all the $$$ he needs, and a presidential appointment to, an office created especially for his research....use the money that Obama wants to steal from us for universal health care-If you told me that taxes would be raised for mycological research and not social programs, I'd bow down to the Hawaiian Muslim-

Totally fascinating.

*drugs

Adding video to channels (Drugs) - requested by rottenseed.

a few crank moments made me cringe.

*talks

Adding video to channels (Talks) - requested by gwiz665.

How Mushrooms Can Save the World - Paul Stamets has been added as a related post - related requested by kulpims on that post.

how mushrooms can save the bees and our food supply has been added as a related post - related requested by enoch on that post.

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