Comments on: Sunday Timeslot: FUNGI

By: shaenon

shaenon — Fri, 08 Mar 2013 06:55:37 +0000

In reply to bottleHeD. Hothouse was the source of childhood trauma: it was the only library book I ever lost. This was serious business for a small, neurotic, thickly bespectacled nerd child.

By: bottleHeD

bottleHeD — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 08:59:18 +0000

You should read Brian Aldiss’s Hothouse for an interesting take on human-fungi symbiosis.

By: Manifesta

Manifesta — Mon, 04 Mar 2013 06:28:22 +0000

In reply to Paul. Shaenon, hooray for MO Sunday Timeslot! Paul, this is so, so cool. I wish I could have heard your Nerd Nite talk. Do you have a website or blog? Are all mycologists this awesome?

By: davidbreslin101

davidbreslin101 — Sun, 03 Mar 2013 20:05:09 +0000

Two thumbs up from this biology geek! There should’ve been an episode about Cordyceps-infected “zombies” climbing tall buildings to shed their spores across Manhattan…..
(Oh, and my Narbonic books did finally arrive after an epic journey around Yorkshire. Turns out the British postal system REALLY hates my new house.)

By: Paul

Paul — Sun, 03 Mar 2013 09:50:58 +0000

For the curious, here’s the grayed-out image of Pilobolus the episode used:

http://i.imgur.com/9R0QWgE.jpg

For reference, the X-Files wiki titles the image “Silicon_Based_Lifeform_Under_Microscope.jpg.” This is amusing on a few levels.