Fungi to the Rescue

According to the speaker in this video, fungi have a lot of advantageous uses for humans and for the earth itself. They really are interesting organisms.

On a related note—and I've been aware of this since high school—it astounds me that the Albanian word for 'mold' has been derived from Latin and that it has been retained almost unchanged—more so than the corresponding words among Romance languages. The root of the Latin word was muc- (hence the -mycin ending in certain antibiotics) and the Albanian word is myk (pronounced as if it were in IPA). The next closest words, from what I gather, would be mucegai (Romanian) and moho (Spanish).