Stan CareyDec 5

"The difference between animals and fungi is simple: animals put food in their bodies, whereas fungi put their bodies in the food."

—Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life

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To promote the book (and have some fun at the same time), Sheldrake fed a copy to some oyster mushrooms https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chOsO7XhLB8 and then ate the mushrooms that grew from his book https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJfDaIVl-tE

(Most of the sounds in the timelapse video were made by mushrooms; see the alt text or click through for details.)

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Dec 5 at 12:36pmWeb
Show threadStan CareyDec 10

Lichen morphology (no, the other kind) in Sheldrake's "Entangled Life"

#lichen #lichenisation #evolution #LichenSubscribe #biology #MerlinSheldrake #nature #fungi #mycology #affixes #morphology

Show threadBodhipaksaDec 5
@stancarey That's amazing! What a great idea!
Show threadStan CareyDec 5
@bodhipaksa Seriously! Fungi have a way of inspiring brilliant ideas
Show threadBodhipaksaDec 5
@stancarey Ha! He didn't seed another copy with magic mushrooms, did he?
Show threadStan CareyDec 5
@bodhipaksa If he did, it wasn't broadcast :(
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