Archive for the ‘Rant’ Category
I recently read The Vertical Farm, Feeding the world in the 21st Century, by Dickson Despommier (2010, Thomas Dunne Books, St. Martin’s Press, New York, NY) and I also got a chance to chat with him on the phone to get some information for an article I wrote for a magazine. Dr. Despommier is a [...]
Tags: Dickson Despommier, mushroom growing, sustainable agriculture, vertical farm, vertical mushroom farm
I finally found a polling plugin that seems to work. It doesn’t look good on the sidebar though, so I am still limited to putting the poll in a post (I don’t want an ugly sidebar!). Speaking of polls, I think most polls are a stupid waste of time. Especially the one’s you see at [...]
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
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
Perhaps thirteen is an unlucky number. Maybe the fourteenth deadliest mushroom just isn’t deadly enough. Maybe there is no guarantee that the poster of 13 Deadliest Mushrooms on the Planet knows for sure. None the less, it does stimulate thought. If we were to rank the deadliest mushrooms in order form “most deadly “to “least [...]
Tags: Amanita, poisonous mushrooms
I read a book. The book said I should register with technorati. So, I did. Updated my profile at LinkedIn today. If you are on LinkedIn and would like to network, that would be great. Please visit my LinkedIn profile and send me an invite! I have run across quite a few people on LinkedIn [...]
Tags: networking, web 2.0
College students, who apparently are rather stupid (at least for the first five years of their post-secondary education) are reminded not to eat moldy food back at the dorm this Fall. If you are unconvinced of the wisdom of this advice, you can check out Student Diet 101: Don’t Eat Mold, by Madison Park, which [...]
Well, maybe not, but that is an attention-getting headline eh? But seriously, in the article Bag tax onerous, maybe unhealthy, a claim is made that two independent studies have concluded that “64 percent of the reusable bags in the study were contaminated with bacteria; nearly 30 percent showed bacterial counts higher than what is considered [...]
Tags: food, Mycologists
There’s a mushroom rush in progress. Near Fort Smith, in Canada’s Northwest Territories, some people have set up camp near a burn zone and are raking in $200 to $500 a day picking morels (at a mere $5 per pound!). Note to author: They are “morels” not “morales!” From the pictures, they look like they [...]
Tags: morels, mushroom hunting
I just wrote a short article for another website about mushroom poisoning in dogs. In the article I stated that it is a fairly rare event (and I still think it is). But, wouldn’t you know it, not everyone agrees. An article entitled More Dogs Sickened by Mushrooms appeared today at a Denver news channel [...]
Tags: Colorado, dogs, mushroom poisoning
Wanna’ read something silly? How about the guy who considers all cancers to be caused by fungi? Dr. Simoncini (he’s Romulan, er…I mean “Roman”), wrote the book on it. You won’t find any legitimate medical web sites touching it. Plenty of alternative medicine folks seem to be enthralled with the idea. If you snoop around [...]
Tags: cancer, weird science
Hello, my Name is Phil and I’m a Mycoholic. Not really. That would suck. Imaging have to eat, drink, live and breath spores all day long. Wait! OMG, I do breath spores all day long! Is there any hope? It’s about mycology. It’s a rant. It might be fun or even useful. Okay it won’t [...]
