Archive for July 31st, 2009

Poisonous Mushrooms Claim Five in Nepal

According to two short news items published by Nepal News, five young people have died as result of eating poisonous mushrooms. The unfortunate deaths are related to a single incident. In both cases the youths had consumed mushrooms collected from forests near their home. Apparently all five ate from the same collection. Attempts to get [...]

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The Wikipedia Fungi Portal

Did you know that Wikipedia had a fungi portal? Me neither. You can put down Wikipedia all you want to, but in my view the day will come when it is recognized as the world’s most reliable and complete encyclopedia. No sense swimming upstream against it. Rather than fight it, you ought to help make [...]

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