The Fascinating Map of Fungi

The Fascinating World of Fungi. Get yourself 20% off a Brilliant premium subscription here: https://brilliant.org/dos/ In this map of fungi we learn everything we can about fungi in about 20 minutes. They are hugely underappreciated as they are an entire kingdom of life, as rich as plants and animals, and we use them so much in our day to day lives beyond eating their mushrooms. They are really important for medicine (antibiotics, statins and many more) and nearly all plants on Earth rely on fungi to live. Amazing stuff. I learned so much making this video! Get My Posters Here: https://dosmaps.com I have also made posters available for personal or educational use which you can find here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/95869671@N08/ Follow me around the internet https://www.instagram.com/dcwalliman https://bsky.app/profile/dominicwalliman.bsky.social https://twitter.com/DominicWalliman http://dominicwalliman.com Credits Writer, art, animation and edited by Dominic Walliman I use Adobe Illustrator and After Effects for the graphics (for the many people who ask :) References Penicillin fermentation By Matt Brown - Flickr, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=44757313 Penicillin mould By Teresa María López - Own work, CC BY 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=84327071 Glass phial of penicillin By https://wellcomeimages.org/indexplus/obf_images/12/d4/a9331961bf9ec04b09fa2f7fffb8.jpgGallery: https://wellcomeimages.org/indexplus/image/L0059573.htmlWellcome Collection gallery (2018-03-29): https://wellcomecollection.org/works/xkbnmutd CC-BY-4.0, CC BY 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=36214535 Fungal Highway https://www.life-science-alliance.org/content/3/12/e202000878/tab-figures-data Therapy brain connections By G. Petri, P. Expert, F. Turkheimer, R. Carhart-Harris, D. Nutt, P. J. Hellyer and F. Vaccarino - https://doi.org/10.1098/rsif.2014.0873, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=109269936 Mycelium image By Christian Scheckhuber - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=44748236 Oomycete By (Reproduced courtesy of Matteo Garbelotto, UC Berkeley [A, D], and Edwin R. Florance, Lewis & Clark College [Portland, Oregon, United States] and the USDA Forest Service Pacific Southwest Research Station in Albany, California [B, C].) - Nicholls H: Stopping the Rot. PLoS Biol 2/7/2004: e213. https://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.0020213, CC BY 2.5, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1374427 Slime mould By Alexis Tinker-Tsavalas - https://www.inaturalist.org/photos/176600092, CC BY 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=128264220 Chapters 00:00 Introduction to Fungi 01:19 Fungal Biology 05:43 Ecology 07:09 Mycorrhiza 08:37 Other Fungal Relationships 10:26 Zombie Ants 11:19 Fungi in Medicine 12:50 Bacterial Highways 13:37 Technology, Food and Poison 15:31 Psychotropics and Fermentation 16:55 Fungi on Us 18:01 Fungal Reproduction 18:51 Spores 19:57 Fungal Tree of Life


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