After Life: The Strange Science of Decay

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Imagine an average family kitchen. The fridge and cupboards are well stocked. There are flowers on the table. There's even a dead mouse on the counter and flies gathering above the fruit bowl. Over a period of three months, this film reveals the incredible science of taphonomy, following what happens to the organic matter in this kitchen as it starts to decompose. Beautifully shot, After Life is a journey through the heart of decay - from the towering branches of Aspergillus mold that sprouts from the surface of an orange to the spread of slime mold across a loaf of bread
Letting It Rot (2:26)
Cycle of Life (0:53)
Day 1--Agents of Decay (2:15)
Day 2--Bacteria at Work (2:35)
Front Lines in the War on Decay (1:38)
Sandwich Capable of Extreme Preservation (3:05)
Day 8--Kitchen War Zone (1:53)
Beautiful, Toxic Molds (1:38)
Powerful Fungi (1:06)
How Fungi Saved the World (2:24)
Day 16--Maggots, the Most Efficient Recyclers (2:37)
Day 23--The Smell of Rotting Meat (3:25)
The Smell of Death (2:03)
Fingerprint of Decay (2:15)
Day 30--Who Says Pigs Can't Fly? (1:58)
Regenerative Power of Decay (1:06)
Day 37--Primitive Life Form (1:58)
Putting Engineers to Shame (2:22)
Slime Mold's Extraordinary Biology (0:59)
Phybot, the Slime Mold Robot (2:24)
Day 44--Slow-Moving Decay (2:28)
Nature's Undertakers (1:56)
Day 52--How Nature Recycles Individual Atoms (2:03)
An Ever-Repeating Cycle (1:54)
Credits: After Life: The Strange Science of Decay (0:33)

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