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	<description>It&#039;s Fungalicious</description>
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		<title>Fungal Degradation of Polyurethane</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Polyurethane is used in a wide variety of products ranging from insulation, auto parts, plastic ware, packaging, adhesives and sealants, and many others. As a result, a large quantity of this useful and important plastic finds its way into waste streams every year.
The problem is, polyurethane is resistant to degradation and has a reputation as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mycology at the New &#8220;Popular Science&#8221; Archive</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In cooperation with Google, Popular Science magazine has placed all the content they have ever produced online and free for the browsing. According to the website:
We&#8217;ve partnered with Google to offer our entire 137-year archive for free browsing. Each issue appears just as it did at its original time of publication, complete with period advertisements. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lockwood Heading for Brazil</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Renowned mushroom photographer Taylor Lockwood is heading for Brazil soon on a mycological photo expedition. I learned this after I heard back from Taylor after I had sent him a message suggestion he consider contributing some fungal imagery to the Phylomon project (recently renamed &#8220;Phylo&#8221;). He showed some interest in that project stating, &#8220;That&#8217;s a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Deaths from Mushrooms in Zimbabwe</title>
		<description><![CDATA[News reports out of Zimbabwe state that six people have recently died there from eating poisonous wild mushrooms. The article Toxic Mushrooms Kill Six shows a picture of Galerina autumnalis, but the article does not state which mushrooms are responsible for the tragic fatalities, which included a three year-old girl.
Six people have died in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cows Threatened by Fungi Down Under</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Down New Zealand way, the alarm has been sounded. Spore counts have gone through the roof (maybe &#8220;sky high&#8221; would be a better way to put it) out in the pastures and this spells trouble for those lumbering denizens of the fields&#8211;cows.
According to Fungus threat to dairy cows soars, by Richard Woodd:
The facial eczema threat [...]]]></description>
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