Archive for October, 2009
Google news lists 199 recent articles about bat white nose syndrome (WNS)! Often that will happen when some new finding or announcement is made and then a whole bunch of news outlets base an article around it. Often they are very much the same. Here are five of the best and most timely. Bats reintroduced [...]
“Fun Guy” is right right up there with “Fungus Amongus” (oops) on my list, but hey–that’s my problem. My problems aside, you really should check out the Penn State Fun Guy. A new addition to the mycoblogosphere, Penn State Fun Guy recently appeared on the blog roll at the Cornell Mushroom Blog. I got a [...]
Tags: blogs, mycoblogosphere, Penn State Fun Guy, research
Thanks to a tip from Fungi Insider, the blog from Fungi Magazine, we learn that Gary Lincoff recently had a talk with Martha Stewart about wild mushrooms. According to Martha’a website: Gary Lincoff shares a glossary of mushrooms and explains the tools needed to mushroom hunt. Here is Guide to Wild Mushrooms. Links to a [...]
Tags: Lincoff, Martha Stewart, mushroom hunting
According to a press release from Total Nutraceutical Solutions, Inc., the company is preparing to introduce a mushroom-based (Hello there? Mushrooms are not plants!) vitamin D supplement. This supplement is plant-based and not animal-based and provides a new approach to Vitamin D supplementation in health-conscious individuals. A proprietary grown mushroom, Agaricus blazei Murill (AbM) by [...]
Tags: Agaricus blazei, Total Nutraceutical Solutions, vitamin D
I wanted to point out Japanese Judo Industry Devastated by Contagious Skin Fungus by David Gutierrez last week but didn’t get a chance before my camping trip. According to the article: The All Japan Judo Federation is sounding a warning that an epidemic of a skin- and hair-affecting fungus may ruin the traditional Japanese martial [...]
Tags: Japan, judo, skin fungus, Trichophyton
Timothy Baroni (SUNY) and Kathie Hodge (Cornel) will be presenting a community roundtable on November 5th at SUNY Cortland’s Park Center Hall of Fame Room. According to the press release: Their topics will range from fungi that cause human disease, molds in houses, mushrooms and mushroom poisoning to the key roles of fungi in global [...]
Tags: meetings, presentation
What do spore-launching mushrooms have in common with highly water-repellent surfaces? This is the question asked by Richard Merritt in his article, Mushrooms, Water-Repellants More Similar Than You Think. According to Duke University engineers, the answer is “jumping” water droplets. As it turns out, the same phenomenon that occurs when it’s time for certain mushrooms [...]
Well my camping trip up to a 6600 acre educational camp near Florrisant Colorado is done and it was quite an adventure. Me and ten other teachers, along with about thirty high school councilors and the camp staff, spent four days with 165 sixth graders hiking through the woods and learning about the natural world. [...]
Tags: High Trails, journal, teaching
Got some places to go and things to do (like hiking through the snow with 19 10-year olds this morning), so new posts will be infrequent to non-existent until next week.
Arturo Casadevall and colleagues ask Do three meals a day keep fungi away? The story is out of Albert Einstein College of Medicine and written up by Deirdre Branley. Perhaps it is more correct to say it is Deirdre who is asking the question. The fact that they eat a lot – and often – [...]
Tags: endothermism, mycoses
You would think that journalists and writers in general would want to avoid trite, worn out, overused phrases and cliches in their work. Apparently the sing-song phrase “fungus amongus” is just too hard to resist. A Google search on the phrase “fungus amongus” returns around 50,000 hits. I thought it would be a lot more [...]
Tags: fungus amongus
It’s not exactly news to anyone who pays attention to mycology and mushrooms in general, but a guy in Nova Scotia has sung the praises of Paul Stamets and his work. The article titled (aaargh!) Here’s to the fungus amongus is by Silver Donald Cameron. PAUL STAMETS is a mycologist. He studies fungi and mushrooms. [...]
In England, some folks are touchy about where mushroom farms should be located. At least that is the impression given in Mushroom factory plans rejected, an article appearing at the website of the BBC. Greyfriars UK wanted to build a mushroom growing shed, staff building and package treatment plant at its site in Wath, near [...]
Tags: mushroom growing
According to Wysong Pet Food Pulls Products Due To Mold by By Lisa Wade McCormick of ConsumerAffairs.com: A third pet food company in as many weeks has pulled some of its products off the market. Wysong Pet Food confirmed that it recalled five batches of Canine Diets Maintenance and Senior dry dog food — manufactured [...]
Tags: mold, moldy food
Mushroom Wars for PlayStation Network (PSN) was released Thursday, October 15, 2009. This according to the PlayStation Blog: Now, you’re asking, what exactly is Mushroom Wars? Do I have to battle evil, killer mutant zombie mushrooms? Well, as cool as that might sound, (hmmm…maybe there’s a future PSN release!), you don’t battle the mushrooms themselves, [...]
Tags: games
One of the things I do is snoop around for other mycology blogs. My hope is to find people to connect with, maybe even trade some guest blogs, and in general let people know about other worthwhile web destinations. Unfortunately the mycoblogological landscape is a bit bleak at the moment. Sure there are some excellent [...]
Tags: blogs, Hyphoid Logic, mycoblogosphere
Is the laser the answer to the common and troublesome problem of nail fungus? According to PinPointe Foot Laser is Said to Kill Toenail Fungus: The patented PinPointe FootLaser System is a specially designed laser beam that goes through the toenail and safely reduces the infection in the nail bed that cause toenail fungus. The [...]
Tags: laser, nail fungi, onchyomycosis
A very nice animated video of Aspergillus conidiophores appears at YouTube courtesy of Lariontsev. He must be Russian. BTW, I have started a site called Fungal Visions that features nothing but fungal videos from YouTube .
Tags: animation, Aspergillus, condiophores
The so-called halo cloud recently spotted over Moscow is not a halo cloud at all. It is obviously an airborne mycelium. One can see that the density near the edge is greater than near the center, which is explainable as a lack of nutrients at the center as the mycelium ranges outward in search of [...]
Tags: halo cloud, mycelium cloud
Small-scale mushroom farming is becoming a growing trend in developing nations. One example of a program in action is the Mushrooms in Ghana project. Nepal is the latest country where the idea has taken hold as described in Mushroom Farming Mushrooms in Jomsom. Women in Jomsom, the district headquarters of Mustang, are coming forward to [...]
Tags: mushroom growing, Nepal
Word of the discovery and description of seven new species of glow-in-the-dark fungi appeared on Twitter on the same day as it was published (Oct 5, 2009). (If you are not following mycology news on twitter you are missing out. You can start by following MycoRant. If you think twitter is a fad, remember–that’s what [...]
Tags: bioluminescence, Brazil, Mycena
