Paul Stamets, Taste3 2007, Session 1: Power

Paul Stamets, Mycologist at the Taste3 Conference in 2007.
Paul Stamets has been studying mushrooms for more than 30 years. Having discovered and named 5 new species, he has written 6 books with his newest work, Mycelium Running: How Mushrooms Can Help Save the World.

[@yahheypodcastic]

Paul Stamets is a pioneer, his videos are always so hopeful and inspiring

[@jihadpizza]

Bravo Stamets. You never cease to amaze me.

[@bobfole]

Oh how I wish I could afford to attend this conference. Thank you so much for posting these videos. They introduce me into a world of food that I would have hardly known.

[@dreaminginnoother]

mushrooms disassembling all kinds of human created problems. Pollution and ego. So helpful on so many levels.

[@methylamine]

I LOVE Paul's lateral thinking. We need more people who are broadly educated in multiple sciences and arts; we need ANOTHER RENAISSANCE!

[@seenvision]

He's always constrained for time, but this information is so important!! I wanna hear you talk for hours, Stamets, teaaaach meeee! lol

[@Snowflake70]

I know about Vx ...this is awesome! Thank you. I had no idea.

[@lotusflowerlygia]

Thank you

[@funnyguise]

More confirmation of what John Allegro wrote. Our connection to mushrooms has been known for a long time only to be re-discovered now.

[@abyssquick]

Though, they usually don't see it as their own lack of education. Of course, they get offended when this is brought up. Basically they don't have the macroscopic interest. They may have immediate interest in nature, but not in the temporal, ancestral context of all life on planet earth. The bigger picture is daunting, but this is precisely why there are so many fields of earth science, each working to understand small parts of earth's history, collectively unified by evolutionary theory.

[@abyssquick]

Yes- Scientific illiteracy is common They don't have any concept really, the scope of science. The present-day abundance of the fossil record and biodiversity is far more rich than the public could possibly expect. Many will try to single out one thing that clashes with a belief (always about mankind's place) and incrementally coming to question all of biology, geology, atomic physics, earth science - all of which yield tangible everyday results due to accuracy.

[@JackMosel]

Rock Star!

[@abyssquick]

Yes; and it's a big scary universe. And it's far easier to say "goddidit" and let that be the end of it. At least in the US, presently.

[@ainsheea]

Paul, what is the painting at 10:20, who is the artist?? this looks strikingly similar to one of my paintings in its dimensions and subject matter....how odd!! and somehow doesn't surprise me, I could have been 'telepathically" inspired by them!

[@abyssquick]

The geographical observation is also incidental one. It's in the USA mostly because that's where the memes originate. It's not to say creationists are all American, but only that most of them are, and why. It's not any sleight toward their nationality. I think maybe if they had some ecumenical perspective, these people might think more. Science is ecumenical; universal. Creationism is distinctly regional. I deal with people within and outside the USA, and have made the observation myself.

[@bullsaidart]

Can anyone tell me if my em1 bokashi supplies mycofiltration benefits to my garden ?

[@abyssquick]

i believe it is [common name] birch polypore

[@xxx777aaa]

@abyssquick i believe that an intelligent designer would easily be able to incorporate an intelligent underground nutrient delivery system such as this video illustrates. the internet is the data delivery system we have designed. i think IT did IT.either way it pretty awesome!

[@CalumnMcAulay]

how do you know that?

[@HeliosCore]

What was that mushroom he first presented called?

[@JaredBroker]

Wild speculation: Mycelium ultimately leads to human brain structure. Brain structure has led to the Internet. All of this is contained within the multiverse in a form of this web. Your ideas?

[@abyssquick]

The knowledge of atomic physics has wrought technologies such as this computer. The public glady accepts the products of meticulous science. When science, despite it's accuracy (which can only occur if the theories are correct in some basic sense), trespasses on religion, we see the public rejecting the methodology, and the thinking.

[@Stepstosimplicity]

Making a hat out of CHITIN? I love this stuff, symbiosis all the way!!! It is like a whole new world I've only recently discovered in the last year. _not so much with the evolution nonsense_

[@abyssquick]

i don't see how the dichotomy is rendered-- i.e. it must unilaterally be either one or the other... there are many other ideas on the playing field- morphic resonance, implicate order, etc... if we are concerned with being egalitarian. i come from a different culture- i wasn't trained to worship anything, my ancestors had no personfied "god" as a singularity; there is no solid belief; there are only stores; parables. so you can see we may think very differently based on that alone.

[@Stepstosimplicity]

What is with the anti-evolution stuff is that people are starting to learn to critically think is what. When you've been brainwashed into believing a concept that has not been observed, isn't replicable and cannot be verified without a shadow of a doubt, you are left with bunk science. Just because the masses believe it for a given time, doesn't mean it's right. But I don't see the point in arguing the point, perhaps we can agree to disagree on this issue? I've had my fair share of debate! :)

[@Stepstosimplicity]

I disagree that the physical evidence supporting evolution surpasses that required for gravity! Carbon dating has been refuted and proven wrong in various cases, with different parts of the same object, (ie. fossil) being measured as different ages. Not to mention it presupposes the amount of carbon in the atmosphere has remained at a constant, using the ratio of carbon to its isotopes as the means by which to measure time, and then scientists go and say we have increasing carbon in the atmosph!

[@ainsheea]

i do like metaphors thanks for the laugh

[@ainsheea]

@zimij325 wow ya, ok buddy.

[@abyssquick]

yes, but the discovery was only possible with evolutionary understanding....? what's all this "anti-evolution" stuff recently? i don't understand. it's perhaps a bit esoteric, yes... but that doesn't make it wrong... it's been more than proven through it's sheer versatility. the only dispute in sciences is -how- it happens... "whether" it happens hasn't been a noted issue since 1925... and long since gone with the ridiculous amounts of evidence today...

[@Stepstosimplicity]

By all means, disagree, your logic isn't any more logical then mine. When you have a belief in something not seen, it is called faith. I hate to tell you, but you have faith in evolution, and I have faith that things were created. Both of us are not going to be able to prove our stance without a shadow of a doubt, but both require FAITH... There is evidence that suggests there is a creator, it is abundant, and yet ignored by much of humanity, does it mean it is not in existence? Tunnel vision..

[@abyssquick]

It's very illogical, I think. Science is all part of one singular methodology. All theories yield tangible results. Evolution is more palpable than most (gravity or atomic theory), as we actually understand what it is, and how it works. It is the most -hated- theory it seems because it says something contradicting a strong religious belief. The efforts to refute it need to address on an equal scope and detail, and they simply don't. Arguments against it only show lack of scientific education.

[@abyssquick]

anti-evolution -- it's -only- a US 'belief', chiefly among a certain interpretation of religion. meanwhile, the rest of the world finds no issue. i had the displeasure of hearing Russian scientists joke about this "problem" we have in the USA-- meanwhile they are excelling in horticultural science based on tracing evolution. yes I do disagree. I have to; I am logically obliged. how can something with so much physical evidence (more than the theory of gravity!) be so easily shrugged off?

[@rt36crazyfists]

Paul Stamets is a righteous dude, but he doesn't have the foggiest understanding of physics or cosmology.

[@Stepstosimplicity]

Mushrooms = People! ROFL

[@jonahlasvegas]

adam and eve = people! ROFL