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Cool Stuff Daily

The Decision Making of Fungi, Weird Wednesday - Discovery on Mt. Everest, Wife-Carrying Competition, Conkers Controversy, and TDIH - Disney Cartoons

Cool Stuff Daily

Reggie Risseeuw and Marques Pfaff

News, Tech News, Science, Society & Culture

4.6732 Ratings

🗓️ 16 October 2024

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

The decision-making processes in fungi - you heard that right! Weird Wednesday has an Mt Everest discovery 100 years later, a wife-carrying competition, and controversy in the Conkers Championship…we’ll explain. And on This Day in History, the start of Disney Cartoons. Do fungi recognize shapes? | ScienceDaily Everest climber Irvine's foot believed found after 100 years (bbc.com) Wife-carrying championship victory brings beer, cash | AP News Conkers controversy: World tournament investigates claims of cheating with steel chestnut | AP News Disney History - D23 Contact the show - [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Welcome to another edition of Cool Stuff Ride Home. I'm Reggie Rizu. He's Marcus Path. On today's

0:53.6

episode, The Decision Making Process and Fizzou. He's Marcus Path. On today's episode, the decision-making

0:55.0

process and fungi. You heard that right. Weird Wednesday has a Mount Everest discovery 100 years later,

1:01.6

a wife-carrying competition, and controversy in the Conquers Championship. We'll explain.

1:07.0

And on this day in history, the start of Disney cartoons. That's coming up on cool stuff.

1:11.6

Well, turning to Science Daily and Tohoku University to get things started today.

1:16.6

Can organisms without a brain still show signs of intelligence?

1:19.6

That's the question.

1:21.6

Researchers at Tohoku University and Nagaoku College had this question in mind

1:25.6

when conducting a study to measure the decision-making

1:28.3

processes in fungi. Yes, you heard that correctly. Well, it may sound like science fiction,

1:33.3

this level of basal cognition is possible, even in fungi. Per Yu Fukasawa of Tohoku University,

1:40.0

quote, you'd be surprised at just how much fungi are capable of. They have memories, they learn,

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