Mycology Education (rebroadcast)

Big Picture Science

Science, Technology

4.6 • 986 Ratings

🗓️ 27 December 2021

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Beneath our feet is a living network just as complex and extensive as the root systems in a forest. Fungi, which evolved in the oceans, were among the first to colonize the barren continents more than a half-billion years ago. They paved the way for land plants, animals, and (eventually) you. Think beyond penicillin and pizza, and take a moment to consider these amazing organisms. Able to survive every major extinction, essential as Nature’s decomposers, and the basis of both ale and antibiotics, fungi are essential to life. And their behavior is so complex you’ll be wondering if we shouldn’t call them intelligent! Guest: Merlin Sheldrake – Biologist and the author of Entangled Life: How Fungi Make our Worlds, Change our Minds and Shape our Futures. Big Picture Science is part of the Airwave Media podcast network. Please contact [email protected] to inquire about advertising on Big Picture Science. You can get early access to ad-free versions of every episode by joining us on Patreon. Thanks for your support! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:07.3	Portobello mushroom. I know that I survived by putting food into my body.
1:12.8	But this mushroom, a fungus, survives by putting its body into food.
1:17.8	That's one of the many surprising things
1:20.4	I learned about mushrooms. They're beyond tasty and they're just about everywhere.
1:25.0	And I ask you, how well do you know your fungi?
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1:31.0	Welcome to Big Picture Science produced at the SETI Institute. In this episode we go beyond the fruiting bit the mushroom
1:37.6	down to the dense mycelial networks that grow like a giant cobweb below our feet.
1:44.0	Their complexity and adaptability may astound you.
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