Podcasts about decomposers

Leave a carcass or a log or a pile of poop out in the wild long enough and it will break down into its component parts. Decomposers are an often-overlooked but essential component of ecosystems past and present. This episode, we explore the varied processes of decomposition and how scientists study decomposers and use that information. We'll also discuss the importance of decomposition to the fossil record, as well as how we can identify signs of decomposers from the distant past. In the news: temnospondyl extinction, hot crocs, foraging birds, narwhal tusks, and giant flying squirrels. Time markers: Intro & Announcements: 00:00:00 News: 00:06:55 Main discussion, Part 1: 00:44:45 Main discussion, Part 2: 01:28:05 Patron question: 02:12:30 Check out our website for this episode's blog post and more: http://commondescentpodcast.com/ Join us on Patreon to support the podcast and enjoy bonus content: https://www.patreon.com/commondescentpodcast Got a topic you want to hear about? Submit your episode request here: https://commondescentpodcast.com/request-a-topic/ Lots more ways to connect with us: https://linktr.ee/common_descent The Intro and Outro music is “On the Origin of Species” by Protodome. More music like this at http://ocremix.org Musical Interludes are "Professor Umlaut" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com). Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

Richard Dudanski in conversation with David Eastaugh https://www.amazon.co.uk/Squat-City-Rocks-protopunk-beyond This musical memoir traces the author's life in the corrugated-iron clad ruins of West London's Squat Land during the two years immediately prior to the Punk Explosion of '76, playing with Strummer's seminal garage band “The 101'ers” in the spit-and-sawdust music bars of the capital. The thrills and spills of a crazy, quirky, hand-to-mouth existence gives way to relative disenchantment with the oncoming of the Punk Uprising, which for the author represents, at least partly, a sell-out to the Machiavellian Managers, as much as the vaunted revolution in British popular culture. After an aborted venture with the iconoclastic “Tymon Dogg and the Fools”, a stint with Lydon's metal box period “Public Image Limited”, a term with the Dantesque-dub of “Basement Five”, Dudanski's tale relates the ups and downs of his involvement in a myriad of bands forming part of a fringe underground London scene through the late 70's and 80's - “Bank of Dresden”, “The Raincoats”, “The Tesco Bombers”, "Vincent Units", “The Decomposers”, and his eventual move from London to Granada...Forming an integral part of the book are the illustrations by Esperanza Romero (Richard's partner) many of which were drawn "in situ" back in time...

The Daily Shower Thoughts podcast is produced by Klassic Studios. [Promo] Check out the Daily Dad Jokes podcast here: https://dailydadjokespodcast.com/ [Promo] Like the soothing background music and Amalia's smooth calming voice? Then check out "Terra Vitae: A Daily Guided Meditation Podcast" here at our show page [Promo] The Daily Facts Podcast. Get smarter in less than 10 minutes a day. Pod links here Daily Facts website. [Promo] The Daily Life Pro Tips Podcast. Improve your life in less than 10 minutes a day. Pod links here Daily Life Pro Tips website. [Promo] Check out the Get Happy Headlines podcast by my friends, Stella and Mickey. It's a podcast dedicated to bringing you family friendly uplifting stories from around the world. Give it a listen, I know you will like it. Pod links here Get Happy Headlines website. Shower thoughts are sourced from reddit.com/r/showerthoughts Shower Thought credits: SoobinKai, randomusername69696, Little-Carpenter4443, tMoneyMoney, Foxs-In-A-Trenchcoat, TheCuriousBread, FaxTimeMachine, VictoryFlaky2004, Salmonellq, dobeast442200, Fingolfin314, Donerank, blumzzz, adragonthatsgay, Schlongisgerman, MattMann2001, ________________me, beardedrockerboy, innocent_delight, , Vhad42, itaian111, Running_Is_Life, Effective-Pain4271, CarCrash23, BrucePennyworth, maestrozeldafan, Andrewcoo Podcast links: Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3ZNciemLzVXc60uwnTRx2e Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/daily-shower-thoughts/id1634359309 Stitcher: https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/daily-dad-jokes/daily-shower-thoughts iHeart: https://iheart.com/podcast/99340139/ Amazon Music: https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/a5a434e9-da18-46a7-a434-0437ec49e1d2/daily-shower-thoughts Website: https://cms.megaphone.fm/channel/dailyshowerthoughts Social media links Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DailyShowerThoughtsPodcast/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/DailyShowerPod Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/DailyShowerThoughtsPodcast/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@dailyshowerthoughtspod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On the second and final episode of this year's decomPOSERS month, the boys celebrate a SECOND Krueger's 40th birthday! Join us as we bid farewell to the Stude (1.0) to the chilling sounds of Charles Bernstein's iconic score for Wes Craven's A Nightmare On Elm Street! KRUEGER NOTES! 1) For those hoping to hear from our perennial spooky guest, Andy Sell of the Ghoul School podcast, don't worry: just wait until the holiday season! 2) And for those interested, as referenced in the episode, Krueger's wife LP makes spooky shit. Check it out.

Just in time (sort of) for decomPOSERS month, the boys are back! Now how's that for a slice of long-awaited fried gold? On the first of two decomPOSERS episodes, we complete the Cornetto Trilogy with the apocalypse that started it all. It's Shaun of the Dead, with music by Pete Woodhead and Daniel Mudford!

This episode of 7 Minutes In Heaven is all about the critters and creatures that help bodies decompose. The DIE team learns about it, and you can too! Enjoy, Land of the Living! #deathiseverything #DeathIsEverythingPodcast #7MinutesInHeavenwithMarianneandChris #7MinutesInHeaven #deathpodcast #LApodcast #takingchances #landoftheliving Thanks for listening, Land of the Living! Rate, Review, Subscribe, and follow us on Instagram @d.i.e._cast and Twitter @deatheverycast for updates!  Check out deathiseverything.com for merchandise and more! If you want to say hello, email us at hello@deathiseverything.com . We're dying to hear from you! --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/death-is-everything/support

At the Grief House we're interested in building a rich, loamy soil in which our lost and fallen bits can be met as nourishment, broken down and taken in and made available, in a new form, to support new growth.We've decided to take this metaphor and  turn it into matter. And then back to metaphor and on and on. Cycles and cycles - just like everything.We start here with beetles, earthworms a particular mushroom who may herself be a community and a festive, scary, beautiful bacterial. We're going to keep at this, these are just the first few notes of our decomposer praise song. Take a listen. See what you think.

It's the final movie installment of this year's DEcomPOSERS, and that can mean only one thing: the return of horror movie expert (and host of the Ghoul School podcast) Andy Sell! This year, Andy helps us break the curse of Dario Argento's Three Mothers trilogy (and the curse of podcasting technical difficulties) with 2007's Mother of Tears and its music by Claudio Simonetti! NOTE: We don't have a regular episode planned for the Sunday before Halloween since Aaron is on vacation, but check this space that day anyway. You know, just in case. BOO.

DEcomPOSERS gets schlocky this week as Jay/Aaron bring us the cult hit Re-Animator, with music by Richard Band (very special thanks to Bernard Hermann too). 

Another year, another comPOSERS reminder to stay out of the ocean. DEcomPOSERS month continues with 1998's Deep Rising, with music by "King" Jerry Goldsmith!

As was foretold, comPOSERS has returned! And, thanks to our new two-episodes-a-month schedule, we're diving directly into our yearly spooky season. First up for DEcomPOSERS, a quirky Krueger pick that we're hoping was worth waiting for (spoiler alert: probably not). It's Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon, with music by Gordy Haab! 

The Daily Shower Thoughts podcast is produced by Klassic Studios. [Promo] Check out the Daily Dad Jokes podcast here: https://dailydadjokespodcast.com/ [Promo] The Daily Facts Podcast. Get smarter in less than 10 minutes a day. Pod links here Daily Facts website. [Promo] The Daily Life Pro Tips Podcast. Improve your life in less than 10 minutes a day. Pod links here Daily Life Pro Tips website. [Promo] Check out the Get Happy Headlines podcast by my friends, Stella and Mickey. It's a podcast dedicated to bringing you family friendly uplifting stories from around the world. Give it a listen, I know you will like it. Pod links here Get Happy Headlines website. Shower thoughts are sourced from reddit.com/r/showerthoughts Shower Thought credits: free-tailed_bat, kylethesmartguy, Fronesis, IAmBlack626, Thylocine, SinCityLola, Lancs_wrighty, Royal_Tumbleweed_910, SQUID_FLOTILLA, redrosetiger, PanzerSoul, Hallucinates_Bacon, asianlovewhite, eek_n, BMFeltip, GuiltyFigure6402, justinfeareeyore, 80khan, dstroot, , aerialgirl67, The-Skinny-Indian, eidolon_eidolon, Tentmancer, StuffEmersonSays, DiganticGong, Fingolfin314 Podcast links: Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3ZNciemLzVXc60uwnTRx2e Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/daily-shower-thoughts/id1634359309 Stitcher: https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/daily-dad-jokes/daily-shower-thoughts iHeart: https://iheart.com/podcast/99340139/ Amazon Music: https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/a5a434e9-da18-46a7-a434-0437ec49e1d2/daily-shower-thoughts Website: https://cms.megaphone.fm/channel/dailyshowerthoughts Social media links Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DailyShowerThoughtsPodcast/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/DailyShowerPod Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/DailyShowerThoughtsPodcast/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@dailyshowerthoughtspod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Fungus gets a bad rap sometimes, but the fungi amongi do incredibly important work breaking down dead stuff. Learn more in this episode of BrainStuff, based on this article: https://science.howstuffworks.com/life/cellular-microscopic/fungi.htmSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We're continuing with our beneficial arthropods series and covering decomposers.Logo by Natalie CervantesMusic by Owen DesBles

Today on Mushroom Hour we have the privilege of interviewing Professor Jonathan Schilling from the University of Minnesota. Jonathan has been on the faculty at the University of Minnesota since 2006, and is currently a professor in the Department of Plant and Microbial Biology in the College of Biological Sciences. In addition to teaching and researching all things fungal, he is the Director at the Itasca Biological Station & Laboratories in northwestern Minnesota. This field station for science is tucked into thirty-two thousand acres of old growth boreal forests within the second oldest State Park in the United States. The station also sits next to a lake, Lake Itasca, which is known as the headwaters of the Mississippi River. He assumed that position in 2018. Adding these duties to his job was, in his words, "a reflection of my deep connection and commitment to nature that was forged in the mountains of West Virginia as a kid, along the entirety of the Appalachian Trail as a young adult, and among family and friends in a Saint Paul neighborhood who have shown how important community is to conservation.   TOPICS COVERED:   Drawn into the Boreal Forest   Role of Fungi in Forest Acid Deposition   Basics of Wood-Rotting Saprobic Fungi   White Rot, Brown Rot & Soft Rot Fungi   Historical Contingency and Succession in Wood Rot   Fungi in the Carbon Cycle   Jonathan's Lignin Uncertainty   Patterns in Distributions of Wood Rot Fungi   Pre-White Rot Fungi Coal Formation Hypothesis   Wood Rot 2 Step - Fungi Throwing Dynamite & Avoiding the Blowback   Itasca Research Station   Community Science & Assembling the A Team   Advice for Pursuing Studies in Mycology    Decomposition Builds Character   EPISODE RESOURCES:   Jonathan Schilling Academic Page: https://cbs.umn.edu/contacts/jonathan-schilling   Itasca Biological Research Station: https://cbs.umn.edu/itasca   PLOS ONE Research Article: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0120679   Frontiers of Microbiology Research Article: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmicb.2020.01646/full   Fomitopsis pinicola (fungus): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fomitopsis_pinicola   Fomitopsis betulina (fungus): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fomitopsis_betulina   

On our final DEcomPOSERS episode of the year, we really burn shit down. This pick comes courtesy of our Halloween Santa Claus Andy Sell of the Ghoul School Podcast, who visits us around this time every year to lend credibility to our show. Tonight he joins us to talk 1980s followup to Suspiria: Inferno, with music by...Keith Emerson? That Keith Emerson? Oh Dario Argento, never change.

The worms crawl in, the worms crawl out... In honor of spooky season, Sequoia Shana and Narwhal Nina delve into the science of decomposition. Today on the High Touch High Tech we talk about one of the misunderstood helpers in the process of decay, WORMS!!

Tis' the season to be considering the concepts of death and decay. We can smell it in the cool wet woods, and we can see it draped across the doorways along our streets. Skeletal trees sway with boney branches scratching at grey skies, and the dark is ever creeping in. Why not celebrate some of the most profound and interesting parties involved in this death and decomposition : Fungi! This weeks show I zoom in on a game, “Death and Decomposers” to help teach about how essential these factors of life are, as well as the Deadly Galerina (Galerina marginata) aka Funeral Bells mushroom, and it's toxic capacities. Lastly I read about wood decay fungi like White Rot and Brown Rot from the amazing book Polypores and Similar Fungi of Eastern and Central North America to elaborate a little more on the decomposition capacities and processes of this amazing kingdom. It really is a fungal world out there, and is certainly blowing up. Get out there and look for the fungi. It may take a second for your eyes to adjust, but soon enough you'll be seeing them everywhere. To learn more : Season of Fungi pt. 1 Season of Fungi pt. 2 Season of Fungi pt. 3 Deadly Galerina study Polypores and Similar Fungi of Eastern and Central North America

What's that behind you? Why it's a supernatural sex pest of course! This week, Aaron's pick for DEcomPOSERS month takes us back to 2014 (sort of) where we read Dostoyevsky and use the word "bang" far more often than any of us is comfortable with. It's the indie horror with a message, if only we could determine what that is: It Follows, with music by Disasterpeace!

DEcomPOSERS month continues with a trip back to the dawn of horror films and one of the first to feature a score! This is a Krueger pick, and since he got married yesterday, we're covering James Whale's "Bride of Frankenstein", with music by Franz "Franky the Wax" Waxman! 

Stew's on! This week, Jay's DEcomPOSERS pick takes us into the Sierra Nevada for culinary lessons with Robert Carlyle and Guy Pearce. It's 1999's Ravenous, with music by Michael Nyman and Damon Albarn!

Happy Halloween! To round out decomPOSERS month, the boys learn how to survive a horror movie courtesy of the guy who hosted the Jamie Kennedy Experiment (what was his name again?) Strap on your JNCOs, grab your Jiffy Pop, and charge your cellulars as we delve into Wes Craven's contemporary classic Scream, with music by the wonderful Marco Beltrami. And thanks for enjoying decomPOSERS...until next year, sinisters! *cue maniacal laughter* *cue thunderclap* *roll credits*

This week, the boys ponder the age-old question "can you make a convincing film adaptation of a video game?" and answer with a resounding "not really". Join us on week three of decomPOSERS month as we get lost in the fog of Silent Hill and its copy-pasted video game score by Akira Yamaoka, arranged (we guess) by Jeff Danna.

This week, the boys inject a little Schlocktober into decomPOSERS month, courtesy of the cult classic horror comedy "Return of the Living Dead" (not to be confused with that other Living Dead film) with music by Matt Clifford and Francis Haines. This score is absolutely impossible to find if you're not Aaron, so thanks to him, you can check out the whole 42 minutes and 35 seconds right damn here. Stay spooky, my friends.

Boo, motherfuckers! October is here and that means it's time for another trip into terror with Scaaron deGhoul, Flay Hang and...uh, Krueger...as we venture once again into decomPOSERS month! We start this year off with a film guaranteed to give you Satanic panic: 1976's The Omen, with music by King Jerry Goldsmith!

602: Partnering with Nature A chat with Jessica Walliser In This Garden Chat: Jessica Walliser returns for a riveting discussion about unique ways we can partner with nature that will enable a thriving garden. Many perceive bugs or mushrooms as a pest problem, however, Jessica points out that fungi and insects can actually be an indicator of other things happening in your garden. Jessica guides us through different ways that we can utilize nature to create a symbiotic ecosystem and identifying the difference between pests versus beneficial bugs. On the last Tuesday every month we host The Urban Farm Garden Chats where Greg Peterson has a relaxed conversation in a Zoom room with a special guest to cover useful gardening topics, and they answer questions from the live listening audience. To register for the live classes go to www.GardenChat.org Register anytime for the next event.Register Here for the Monthly Garden Chat with Live Q&A Jessica co-hosted The Organic Gardeners, an award-winning program on KDKA Radio in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, for 15 years, is a former contributing editor for Organic Gardening magazine as well as being a co-founder of the popular gardening website SavvyGardening.com. Jessica is the author of seven gardening books, including the Amazon best-seller Good Bug, Bad Bug: Who's Who, What They Do, and her newest book Plant Partners: Science-based Companion Planting Strategies for the Vegetable Garden. Visit www.urbanfarm.org/garden21apr for the show notes on this bonus episode, and access to our full podcast library!

My AP Biology ThoughtsUnit 8 Episode #22Welcome to My AP Biology Thoughts podcast, my name is Pauline and I am your host for episode 22 called Unit 8 Ecology: Food Web and Food Chains and types of organisms.. Today we will be discussing the classification of different organisms in each trophic level of food webs and varying food chains  Segment 1: Introduction to Food Chains and Food WebsTo start off, let's differentiate between food chains and food webs. The picture shows how food chains are a smaller representation of an ecosystem, so several food chains within one ecosystem make up a food web. Therefore, a food chain will show only one organism at each trophic level, while a food web will show multiple producers for example. That brings us into identifying the types of organisms in these food chains and webs. At the bottom are the producers that convert the solar energy into chemical energy that can be used by other organisms. All producers are autotrophs, meaning they make their own food. These producers are eaten by herbivores known as primary consumers. The next trophic levels are made of secondary consumers, tertiary consumers and so on. These consumers are either omnivores or carnivores. Two other types of organisms that are often forgotten about are detritivores and decomposers. Detritivores consume material to break it down, so this would be like an earthworm. Decomposers feed off of dead decaying matter like fungi. Fungi release a liquid that breaks down the matter to suck up the nutrients. A key element of food chains is that only 10% of energy is transferred between trophic levels, so producers must provide a lot of energy to sustain the highest consumers.  Segment 2: Examples of to Food Chains and Food WebsA very local example of a food chain here in NJ is shown in the picture including grass as a producer eaten by a grasshopper, who would then be eaten by a small bird. This bird as a secondary consumer would be eaten by a snake as a tertiary consumer. And to take it one step further, an owl could eat the snake. This is an example of only one food chain, so a NJ food web would maybe also include a deer as a primary consumer and a fox as a secondary consumer.  Segment 3: Digging Deeper into Food Chains and Food WebsFood webs and the role of each organism involved within the food chain fit into the greater picture of ecology because of the effects that changes in energy availability can have on the ecosystem. For example, if there is a decrease in the amount of free energy available to the producer level, it affects everyone. Each trophic level would receive less energy so populations would decrease, and the top trophic levels might even die out. Another example of the effects of energy availability is the germination period of many organisms. A lot of organisms have their babies in the spring when the sun is out for longer periods of time. This is because the producers get more sun energy to grow, which then means that more energy is transferred to the primary consumers to reproduce. To conclude, in the bigger picture of things, the future of food webs is pretty promising. With elevated CO2 levels in the atmosphere from climate change, producers that make their own organic molecules from carbon dioxide will produce more energy. Therefore, more energy is available at the heterotroph levels so populations of consumers would increase. Overall, food webs explain population size and therefore population growth. Thank you for listening to this episode of My AP Biology Thoughts. For more student-ran podcasts and digital content, make sure that you visithttp://www.hvspn.com/ ( www.hvspn.com). See you next time! Music Credits:"Ice Flow" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License  http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Subscribe to our PodcastApple Podcasts Spotify Google Podcasts  ...

Today on Mushroom Hour we are joined by the distinguished Lynne Boddy, Professor of Microbial Ecology at Cardiff University. After undergraduate studies in Biology and Mathematical Statistics at the University of Exeter, she was interested in any and every type of ecology. A fortuitous position at the University of London led her to studying wood decay processes, which would turn out to be the subject of her PhD. That work snowballed into a 40-year exploration of wood decay processes with fungi at its core. As well as scientifically challenging and environmentally of massive consequences, mycelia and their interactions have a huge aesthetic appeal for Professor Boddy. There are so many burning questions when it comes to fungal biology, fungi’s relationships to food sources, fungi’s relationship to other fungi and other microorganisms that she, along with around 40 PhD students, post-docs and other co-workers, have striven and are striving to answer. Lynne’s passion for fungi laces out into studies of mycorrhizal fungi, the rising amateur mycologist community, and nearly every other aspect of how fungi will change human lives. There is an obvious joy in her communication of this information to both student audiences and to the public at large. We’re about to enter an exciting world of fungal battles, life and death struggles, epic hunts for food and the complexities of non-human intelligence. Topics Covered:Professor Boddy’s PhD ResearchWood Decay ProcessesFungi's Role in Wood DecayEndophytesFungal Competitive StrategiesResource Unit Restricted Fungi Cord-Developing FungiHow Does Mycelium Choose Where to Grow?How Does Mycelium Pass Information?Mycelium Network ArchitectureDoes Mycelium Have Memory?Heartwood Rot FungiImpact of Climate Change on FungiImportance of Amateur ContributionsEpisode Resources:Lynne Boddy Website: https://www.cardiff.ac.uk/people/view/81120-boddy-lynnePhanerochaete velutina (fungi): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PhanerochaeteHypholoma fasciculare (fungi): http://www.mushroomexpert.com/hypholoma_fasciculare.htmlPhallus impudicus (fungi): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phallus_impudicusMegacollybia platyphylla (fungi): https://www.first-nature.com/fungi/megacollybia-platyphylla.phpDirected, Recorded, Produced by: Mushroom Hour (@welcome_to_mushroom_hour) Music by: Ancient Baby (https://peckthetowncrier.bandcamp.com/) Art by: Wyn Di Stefano (http://www.wyndistefano.com/)

Some people are just ill, with intentions and other people's life and light.

Just because DEcomPOSERS month has come to an end doesn't mean we don't get to talk about monsters (and we don't even mean John Lasseter!). Join us this week as we chat with returning guest Katrina Kelly about Randy Newman's score for Pixar's "Monsters, Inc."

This week, we send DEcomPOSERS month off with a BOO with returning guest and horror film expert Andy Sell. From the iconic to the weird, we list our top 6 horror movie themes, and Andy "Ghoul-Schools" us on some favourites of his.

MAPSOC.ORG //First Segment: A discussion of world events as death games for dying people. Decomposers consume dead things. You only need be alive to resist them. // Second Segment (00:51:00): Bigfoot and his wife.

There is a lot to consider when playing with botanicals in our aquariums- like, what happens to them as they break down. A whole community of organisms- from bacteria to fungi- play a hugely important role in the aquatic ecosystem, in both Nature and aquarium. Let’s think about this for a bit- and further “blur the lines” between Nature and our aquariums in the process!

As the SciShow Tangents Month of Fear continues, your hosts get down into the wormy, slimy muck to discuss Ceri’s biggest fear: decomposition! Does that sound too generic to be truly terrifying? That’s what Sam thought too, and now he is also quite scared of decomposing! Boo!   Follow us on Twitter @SciShowTangents, where we’ll tweet out topics for upcoming episodes and you can ask the science couch questions!    If you want to learn more about any of our main topics, check out these links:   [Truth or Fail]   Straw Urinals - https://www.unreservedmedia.com/paris-open-air-urinals/ Peepee Day - https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/earth/earthnews/6554958/Urinate-on-the-compost-heap-to-save-the-planet-says-the-National-Trust.html https://grist.org/living/ask-umbra-can-i-pee-in-my-compost-pile/ Human Composting - https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/washington-first-state-allow-burial-method-human-composting-180972020/   [Fact Off]   Ocean viruses - https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/3/9/e1602565.full https://www.ocean.washington.edu/courses/oc400/Arrigo2005.pdf   Burying beetles - https://www.fws.gov/Midwest/endangered/insects/ambb/abb_fact.html https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2018/10/news-burying-beetle-nursery-bacteria-fungus-decomposition/   [Ask the Science Couch]   Food Safety https://www.fsis.usda.gov/wps/wcm/connect/fsis-content/internet/main/topics/food-safety-education/get-answers/food-safety-fact-sheets/safe-food-handling/food-safety-tips-for-college-students/ct_index https://food.unl.edu/will-reheating-food-make-it-safe-if-you-forget-refrigerate-it https://aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu/food-technology/bacterial-food-poisoning/ https://www.fda.gov/food/consumers/what-you-need-know-about-foodborne-illnesses   Decomposers https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/dsny/docs/tip-sheet-decomposer-id-cpts-id-f.pdf   Pizza (Quora answer) https://www.quora.com/Is-it-safe-to-eat-pizza-left-out-overnight   [Butt One More Thing]   A/V plug http://www.orderofthegooddeath.com/deathly-doodle-leakage http://fluidpusher.blogspot.com/2009/10/questions-of-day-jenn-edition.html

Transcript -- An experiment on growing dipterocarps with the help of fungi, and how this has been done in Malaysia.

Transcript -- Where to find fungi, and the role that they play in the forest.

Where to find fungi, and the role that they play in the forest.

How fungi use nutrients in the forest, and how these are transported through the fungus.

An experiment on growing dipterocarps with the help of fungi, and how this has been done in Malaysia.

Transcript -- How fungi use nutrients in the forest, and how these are transported through the fungus.

An experiment on growing dipterocarps with the help of fungi, and how this has been done in Malaysia.

Transcript -- An experiment on growing dipterocarps with the help of fungi, and how this has been done in Malaysia.

Where to find fungi, and the role that they play in the forest.

Transcript -- Where to find fungi, and the role that they play in the forest.

Transcript -- How fungi use nutrients in the forest, and how these are transported through the fungus.

How fungi use nutrients in the forest, and how these are transported through the fungus.

In this show, we're going to salute Decomposers (bacteria, fungi, earthworms, and insects). Science news, facts, and the song Best Of The Pests. By The Singing Science Teacher. Approx. 13 min. For all ages. Visit my websites scienceonthewildside.com, singingscienceteacher.com, and cavecritter.com for more fun songs and how to order my cds (at cdbaby.com/cd/rickquarles and cdbaby.com/cd/rickquarles2). Check out my podcast/blog page at scienceonthewildsideshow.libsyn.com for more podcasts and to leave comments. Donations of any amount are gladly accepted. This podcast will be biweekly and should be posted by every other Monday (next show on Sept.19th).