This Underground Economy Exists in a Secret Fungi Kingdom

[@Seeker]

Hi, thanks for watching! Curious to know more? Check out the lab behind the research at tobykiers.com

[@Vanboya]

I like how you bring across the information nahhh i think its just you

[@yourimperialemperor5954]

Why are you linked to the hate group now this??????!!!!!!?????

[@FlameForgedSoul]

Also read Paul Stamets and watch his JRE appearance, he’s only been talking about this for years and years...

[@kevinvu5432]

You can pronounce it as gmfung-ai and fun-Jee. But only one is correct. You dont pronounce cacti as cact-Tee. This is just an excuse. Edit: for more context in order for Fun-jee to be grammatically acceptable, Fun-jus also has to be acceptable.

[@plasmaburndeath]

"Wood Wide Web" where Firewalls are truly feared.

[@20yearsofkobebryant95]

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[@goatlandia8457]

Yes!!!! Such a great comment!!!!

[@Zextranet]

Firewalls are also 100% Effective to Blocking by squeezing the Connection You can Crash The Economy by just several squeezes

[@nositadewi5705]

Seeker : we found an underground economist Ant : Am I joke to you?

[@AnkitSharma-nf5qm]

What about economist?

[@ging9944]

Termite???

[@JackLeMetis]

Damn! The ants actually grow some strains! They got economy

[@mr.personhumanson6871]

Ants are communists, fungi are capitalists

[@fundemort]

@@mr.personhumanson6871 Damn you're right

[@silversurfer8818]

Finally some Biology, i was oversaturated with Physics and engineering!

[@calegoethals4575]

Right!!

[@caldasvictor]

But there's a lot of physics there 😁

[@OdinzEinherjar]

@@caldasvictor There's a lot of nature engineering things too.

[@maxwellsequation4887]

Oversaturated with Physics? Boy you are weak

[@billphoenix7727]

@@maxwellsequation4887 screw you

[@sebastianelytron8450]

How much room does this fungi economy need to grow? As mushroom as possible.

[@AhmedOta]

NGL I chucked

[@eyemann5706]

Nice.

[@fadel_rama]

Dad?

[@souhung69]

You seem to be a fun-guy

[@reddragon2335]

That. Is yes. Thank you.

[@Bombay.Badboy]

Telling me there's a mushroom out there asking to buy a mushroom girlfriend for 200 phosphorus?

[@bigchungus7050]

Lmfao

[@zack7122]

69 phosphorus*

[@zack7122]

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[@thalmoragent9344]

Spiceboy Juggernaut 🤣

[@jeramiibugher1629]

Lmaooooo

[@Bisma3429]

So how's his personality? He's such a Fun Gi

[@eldritchlemon]

[Insert another funny fungi joke here]

[@will1718]

Kwahi ?

[@cooter3690]

Sounds like the trees on Pandora in the movie Avatar

[@Stinkys8050]

Pandora isn’t far from reality. Look up Pando, one of Earths largest organisms.

[@SmartBrainchannel]

*looks

[@gabrieldefreitascoelhocarr9556]

This is what I commented yesterday on the post talking about today's video.

[@jmone9]

That’s where james Cameron got the idea from lol

[@maruchannuudle657]

Most fantasy movies revolve around some truths and discoveries in science. Bridging a radical new find into a pop culture film is an easy way to ease people into new perspectives.

[@motaaaa]

Plant: Sends a lot of sugar Fungi: STONKS

[@NightSpy2]

My first meme creation: imgflip.com/i/3cksj7

[@funyannyan1414]

Ahh man you beat me to it. I think the same too lol.

[@hail_koenig]

This spring I experimented with hugelkultur. Instead of yard clippings I used forest floor litter and some kitchen waste that just began to grew fungi. The end result this fall was the most bountiful tomato harvest I’ve ever had since I started gardening 6 years ago, even more bountiful compared with compost alone or fertilizer alone.

[@Retrofire-47]

Even more amazing that we associate "mold" as something wholly detrimental in agriculture... "Mold" is literally mother nature, the dynamo that fuels the natural world. Literally all established knowledge of biology is based upon a false premise. How humbling that is... Now you must ask: what implications that have on our food supply? Much of our food is now being grown either isolated from the fungus [commercial agriculture] or completely devoid of it [aquaponics]. i bet this has implications on our health as a society, that we cannot even begin to comprehend.

[@818GCA]

"researcher in Amsterdam studying fungi" Dang what are the chances ;D

[@20yearsofkobebryant95]

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[@bobbg9041]

They studying hearbs too. The Cheech and chong strain is of a pertetliur research instrest.

[@feenstma]

@@bobbg9041 I study herbs on a daily basis ;)

[@projectcontractors]

*A world-wide-web that's in the soil!* It's through the Hyphae, that Earth is like mythological Pandora. _How awesome!_

[@carlosmonkee]

Its stranger than we can suppose

[@electroncommerce]

Imagine that there's some lab looking into using these for quantum computing and advanced encryption possibilities.

[@rodenrren2]

@@electroncommerce quantum computing?? How would that work?

[@8888stealth]

Miceilul network connects universes together. Engage the spore drive.

[@hempwick8203]

Paul Stamets uhhh consulted on StarTrek hence the myco tek

[@aamirrazak3467]

Biology truly is beautiful

[@malcolmhardwick4258]

When we humans destroy forests...we are destroying far much more 😣

[@carrynoweight]

It's ok, fungus bites back =) Check out recent fungal infections sprouting up

[@2drealms196]

We spark fungi economic crashes in the stalk market.

[@ramsesabreu1870]

@@2drealms196 lmaoo

[@thinginground5179]

@@2drealms196 They also do it to us as payback, when smuts and rusts infect our crops lol

[@samsam18200]

Paul Stamets has been talking about this for a long time.

[@Madskills-hw2ox]

New research has revealed? Guess Paul Stamets doesn’t exist.

[@benchasinghorizons9428]

I'm a vegetable grower and use the no dig method. I feed the soil and never disturb it. The fungi do the real work with the relationship between the plants I grow. So I feed the fungi and the fungi do all the fertilizing. The plants grow like they are on steroids and don't get bothered by pests half as much. If you want more info on no dig, check out Charles dowding.

[@HeyItsJoe1]

Nobody: Mushroom Version of Khawi Leonard: I'm a Fungi

[@claymore609]

Seen and learned about this from a video about "Paul Stamets" a few years ago. Also he found out that Bee's harvest a liquid from fungi in decaying wood, after testing samples he found that the liquid was very high in antibiotic and antiviral compounds, he figures its a way for Bee's/hive to bolster their immune system.

[@donnytheflow]

Seeker: 1:22 *Bay Area Oakland has entered the chat E-40: oooooh

[@MatthewTovar0]

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[@oliverbeerthanksplease6772]

Hmm us indigenous peoples know everything is alive .. the Forrest can see you. It can hear you and know your intentions before you do ... Microbiology is just rediscovering the mechanisms in which it dose so .. this channel is amazing .. thanks

[@AifDaimon]

This is absolutely amazing to know.. I never knew this was even a thing

[@20yearsofkobebryant95]

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[@sdfkjgh]

The expanded description sounded like fungi were playing the biggest, oldest game of Catan in history. "Hyphae seeking to trade essential nutrients for sugars."

[@djmouton251]

Praise our new fungi overlord !

[@20yearsofkobebryant95]

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[@cornyboi4434]

Everyone's being such a Fun-Gi with all those "Fun-Gi" comments

[@muhammadgilangnursyahroni8631]

fun-gay

[@20yearsofkobebryant95]

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[@donnytheflow]

Amazingly informative video as usual. So glad I subbed to keep up with this magic. p.s. I, for one, am here for Maren being spicy with the takes: 0:14 & 1:53

[@57hound]

Fascinating content perfectly presented. I love this channel!

[@janusluna8216]

This reminds me of the movie "Dr. suess horton hears a who".

[@hasher2265]

Very cool they have a Wallstreet underground. Mutualism at its finest even if it is reactionary and not complex abstract thought.

[@royslapped4463]

Great video. I've always found mushrooms super interesting but I never realized how complex fungus actually is.

[@LiquidSoapDrinker]

0:33 Aspergillus what now?

[@nehabahl2801]

It's used to form vinegar

[@fureversalty]

Found in the country Niger, I'd assume. (Also its pronounced Nee-jair, soft j)

[@LiquidSoapDrinker]

@@fureversalty got it, soft j, not hard r

[@LiquidSoapDrinker]

W... what?

[@DunnickFayuro]

These michorizae can actually break rocks and feed it to trees. They are amazing!

[@shahbazmuhammad9026]

So many networks, the trend of "PLANT A TREE" isn't working because we aren't allowing this relationship between plant & fungi network to build up. A soil with that many networks is the key

[@Omnifarious0]

They appear to be a critical part of an ecosystem. That likely has implications for colonizing other planets or building self-sustaining space habitats. I think that ecosystem engineering is one of the trickiest and least well understood problems facing these endeavors.

[@jigodiieplinalumea4565]

This web is also inside our body starting with sinus. Daily (mostly at night) fungus gets in our nose and digestive and respiratory mucosa and trigers inflamation but our immune system keeps it at check with peroxide.

[@alexanderarnold4810]

The "Barter and Trade" action(s) aren't truly what fungi are doing necessarily in this film, but the model of "Bartering and Trading" is possibly a "back and forth transfer with andor without any "evaluation" by the fungi itself".

[@feenstma]

Awesome vids so far. Very interesting stuff!

[@widget3672]

Are there any reports or papers on fungal network computing? I imagine a specially designed, perhaps 3d printed soil cube saturated with nutrients and microrhizae with standardised computer outputs and inputs. I know it wouldn't match the kind of computing power as traditional computers but it could make for an interesting replacement that may be more radiation resistant or perhaps even provide an organically fuelled artificial intelligence? Anyway, wild sci fi speculation aside, if anyone has any papers or reports of this stuff then I'm happy to receive your replies. Thanks

[@aguywhodoesstuff1116]

From what I understand they have something similar.

[@blackheartgaming6121]

I want to become a mycologist

[@aaronblake8378]

I played this for my middle school science students when we were studying "decomposers"...I say that in quotations because Fungi are so much more than that

[@Idlepit2]

I have a friend that is a mushroom..... He's a really fun guy

[@ronwesilen4536]

Lol

[@dginx]

He's really a fun guy. There I fixed it for you.

[@Veldaren]

@@dginx There was nothing to fix, though.

[@Veldaren]

@Yowatsapp 05 sure.. I guess lol

[@dginx]

@@Veldaren If you guys are laughing at a period I wonder if you will loose it when you really see the difference.

[@johnnypk1963]

The Hidden Life of Trees is a great book that discusses these points in depth

[@bharathreddygudibandi492]

The way you explain always mesmerizes me.

[@gaylewilliams4805]

Wow! As an organic farmer, this was fascinating

[@dawnhughes9942]

Speaking as an arborist, I often say that mycorrhizae are the secret to tree success that should not be a secret. Thank you for this video!

[@DavidAndTheDummies]

Having watched ST Discovery really peaked my interest with this video🖖🏼

[@20yearsofkobebryant95]

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[@stephenmowbray6987]

I bet Terence McKenna is one happy man right now

[@flashpointparadox9909]

Terence Knew This Years Ago

[@drhoneybadger]

@@flashpointparadox9909 oh, at most he considered it. Nobody knew this until these scientists made the discovery

[@flashpointparadox9909]

@@drhoneybadger Yh but he always used to talk about it and explain it so it was more than a guess at least

[@AlemitoFilms]

0:40 is there a chicken with a hat behind these really interesting mushrooms?

[@hossamhazem3241]

This channel lighting setup is amazing keep on the good work I hope I could do one like it some day

[@cubesquared6989]

It’s as if the fungi are the elders setting the example of how we should treat our resources of nutrients. It’s a give and take relationship. We shouldn’t take from the earth without giving back a fair trade. It’s time to go back to our roots and reestablish the symbiotic relationships we once had with this planet.

[@TheMASTERshadows]

I'm in love with the host ...

[@jamuson4359]

pretty adorably dorky isn't she? I love it.

[@isabellas4120]

Wood Wide Web - I cracked up. Both nature and scientists are geniuses.

[@hotdoghokage]

This is the coolest and trippiest video to stumble upon after eating some delectable edibles. THnks yooo

[@yourdedcat-qr7ln]

Fungus also has cellular intelligence which allows it to find the most efficient route to food sources inside of mazes or complex tunneling

[@maxfreeman3764]

I wonder if the intricacies of symbiosis on the micro level are because of simplicity or time. I wonder if macro organisms that already have a symbiotic partner can become so intertwined in times to come.

[@bitegoatie]

Missed this, I did, until now. Yes, it is communication you describe, among other things. Keep highlighting more discoveries about our world we could have understood long ago were humans not so self-absorbed and swollen headed.

[@zerg9523]

“Researchers discovered...” should be “Some guys tripping balls discovered...”

[@itsok5954]

What's the diffrence?

[@zerg9523]

The ones not tripping balls are boring?

[@TheNightwalker247]

Came back to this video after seeing the slime mold video. Please more about mycelium and molds

[@gorillaxrich]

That was an awesome demonstration... 🤙...

[@malbrownie]

I’m guessing that growing fungi will be a huge industry for agriculture, maximizing outputs on land that has been overly worked. Ploughing a paddock will become a rare event and fungi will be purchased like fertilizer. #justsaying love your channel.

[@MaxMisterC]

Poor old Fungi, gone but not forgotten! (Benefit Street)

[@DGOODWIN19]

It is the underground internet, it brings nutrients to hungry plants. It does this to make the forest thrive for it to thrive. I am always happy to see soil with white mycellium, the white fuzz. It assists my gardens.

[@Quandaledillywingle]

I like how she’s wearing a trippy shirt 😂

[@Ghennesph]

It's almost like the forest operates on a free market without the need of oversight and dictation.

[@CrankyPantss]

Interesting video. Good job, Maren.

[@weylin6]

Seeing those networks makes me think of neurons forming connections Imagine if there was some life form that was just a massive intelligence growing underground

[@JohnstasBACK]

i remember learning about this in Organismal Biology

[@rcmaniac10]

so how long till we can hop from place to place using the Mycelial network?

[@LakeGuy2010]

Thanks for the video! This is really interesting!

[@melchizedekpsj]

Absolutely fascinating!

[@eddiepopcopter5902]

Actually mind blowing

[@Bharat_gyan_anubhooti]

most resilient organism on earth

[@Hotshoe333]

Fungi is crazy, theres this function with fungi called mycelium web, when you look at the web it looks like the universal web!

[@alrachid2]

They are like middlemen that trade the nutrients from decomposing organic matter and turn it into a form of food for the roots of plants. Pretty neat.

[@chrisholdread174]

You can't be a fun guy without fungi

[@ezequielvecchi264]

Thanks, very interesting. Do you have the link for the paper that you mentioned in the last part? Thanks!

[@ChrisComstock612]

Absolutely fascinating

[@NoirEater]

I personally think the future of circuits, plastics, and renewable resources will be mycelium

[@Rueyful]

Where's the link towards that research please?

[@LadiesMan-bo2cc]

Looks like the Fungi’s need to find some Fungirls and party after work! Lol

[@Im2cool4schools]

My favorite fungi is the Aspergillus niger and it can be seen at 0:34

[@ge2719]

so is this what we do on farm when we fill soil with plent of nutrients to feed the plant? in nature this happens more by the nutrients being provided by fungi?

[@Retrofire-47]

Sounds to me like we are trying to play Mother Nature... and failing.

[@admireargumentactivity]

Fascinating!

[@BADMoeBrown]

Fungi aren't business partners. They're overlords, holding the trees hostage and making a shotgun deal. "Give me what I want, and I'll give you this, or I'll kill you." That's pretty much how it goes down.

[@drsbrettsavage]

Brilliant!

[@n2kto]

So D.A.R.P.A, do you have a tool that uses fungi to detect footsteps in the forest?

[@higherrating2195]

The change in direction of nutrient flow could be creating energy via multiple biological processes. Can mycorrhiza and plants create a net positive energy exchange by passing nutrients back and forth? Where are the biochemist when you need them?

[@SirUncleCid]

"It might just grow on you" *WHEEZE*

[@20yearsofkobebryant95]

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[@AllenBarclayAllen]

More more more please my brain is hungry for this info nutrient..!

[@aiyoungboy4484]

Only the real ones remember the great phosphorus depression.

[@SivaPrasad-zy1ci]

Creation is not a Joke, but a Program of one other dimension

[@Treegrower]

Great video

[@aproapegata]

the volume of the voice is to low in comparation with other channels, pls more louder

[@MrTomtomtest]

Is that what they meant when they stated a while back that trees were linked together & exchanged nutrients ? Or is it another kind of network ?

[@darongw]

Yup, trees and other plants can communicate through the wood wide web of fungi.

[@CosmicErrata]

I like how they punish each other for unsatisfactory nutrients.

[@toserveman9317]

Once a simple symbiosis forms, it can act like a selection enviro selecting for increasing (chemical [hammer and knee]) complexity where the partners will then have ["drilled-down-into" chemical chain reaction] ways of controlling each other. Enter multi-cellularity as the next layer that acts like a new selection enviro and so on. I would look at simpler version of this symbiosis phenom to get my mind around it. E.g ants-as-immune-systems on trees.

[@Felix-M.]

This video was so cool 😎 👍

[@zakiducky]

This reminds me of the global biological network thing on Pandora from the Avatar film. Minus the weird animal head-tail interfacing of course.

[@robertclure]

Im going fungee jumping this weekend.

[@Zantagiro]

brilliant!

[@alexisbledsoe2369]

This is random but does anyone know the thing where you place three dots randomly and I think you have to repeat it? And then after a while of doing that you get a cool pattern.