What Is Mold and Why Does It Love Bread?

It's time to dive into our collection of spores, molds, and fungus!

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[jojomojo]

when the bread is sus there might be mold among us

[aintnothang]

Man, "Fungus among us" is just the most wonderful silly line ever, whomever thought of that, and whomever approved of it, hats off to you.

[mattthescreamer]

This is one of the best and unfortunately underrated channels on YouTube. How these guys don't have millions of subscribers is beyond me. I wish they would get a big push.

[satellaview_dev]

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[morgantilton]

I've been reading Entangled Life and this made me so happy to see!! Love seeing these fungus up close its absolutely beautiful :)

[taxtacogue]

"Fungus Among Us" would make a great title for a metal album.

[NerdyJackalope]

They know what they were doing in the Thumbnail...

[wengyuinlam]

I watch this series when I have one of those depressive episode or anxiety attack weeks. Hank Green's voice just soothes me (even when he's talking about death, which also helps).

[bkfishing]

Thanks Hank for leaning into the microphone and nailing the NPR voice on this channel. It's a good vibe!

[pleasedontwatchthese]

This whole channel would be like a great video demo for showing off new tvs

[rasmusnilsson]

Just found this channel . It has changed My life haha. THX for amazing vids.

I Love to show My son these

[Post.nut_Clarity]

I've been along for the journey for awhile now and have only _just_ realised the musical composition is written by Andrew Huang.

Nice.

[lizosaurusrex]

HANK I had no idea this channel existed--this is wonderful! Also your voice sans PBS-level volume/excitement is incredibly soothing. Subbing immediately. Aside from the incredibly cool topic, watching/listening was pure meditation.

[glargoyle]

Every time I say "sus" I feel my IQ increase a little.

[Kazzzack]

it might be technically correct, but switching between a hard G in "fungus" and a soft G in "fungi" is driving me insane

[resignurdrnk]

The ending gave me chills. Incredibly humbling to think about

[Jimmywuu]

You can buy mycorrhiza from a hydroponics store. By itself or enriched soils. I bought it for my compost pile, so it grows and spreads, and aways there when needed.

[Pashnigen]

These guys are absolute geniuses for using internet humor to their advantage.

[Skyywatcher]

I know one thing after growing slime mold, is that the SM loves mushrooms and fungus, but re treats, or will not go near anything with mold on it!

[JD-jlyy]

A lot of amogus and shrigma jokes incoming lol