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When You Can’t Stop Bringing Up Fungi in Casual Conversations

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Gardening, Mushrooms
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...gly frustrated with some in the mycology sphere who are more interested in self promotion than in exploring the fungal world in all its majesty and complexity. Comrades, we need better science popularizers! I also had the privilege of taking a cultivation class the day before the fair taught by Peter McCoy. He taught us a cultivation technique invented by an amateur Robert McPherson, aka Psylocybe Fanaticus, that makes use of sterilized mason jars...

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Weekend Linkages: Advent Hauntology

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Saturday Linkages
...Telling Ghost Stories If you like the idea of Christmas ghost stories let me recommend the writings of M.R. James that you can access here for free Eric Garcetti’s Broken Sidewalks Coincidence department: Will Self discovers evensong and the hidden charm of All Saint’s, Margaret Street (which we visited last month in London) Watch out for the flu Chocolate Peanut Butter Rice Krispie Christmas Tree Pops...

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Killdozer Nation

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Thoughtstylings
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...can manifest in acts of what has come to be called “stochastic violence,” self-radicalized terrorism. There was some real bravery in Grandby on that day in 2004, from the cop who jumped up on top of Heemeyer’s moving tank, to the heavy equipment operator who attempted to disable the Killdozer with a commandeered road scraper. If not for these delaying tactics many lives might have been lost. Sadly, I think we’ll see more of these types of inciden...

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Flipping the Flippers on May Day

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Thoughtstylings
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...izes skin care routines, personal trainers, luxury vehicles and relentless self empowerment propaganda. Their plastic skinned appearance means they could probably slip into that weird new Barbie movie without putting on any makeup. This first episode of their new series focused on the affluent life of the hosts as they moved between suburban pool parties and their bland office. But what fascinated me most was what the show obscured: the immigrant...

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Autonomous Vehicles: Hype and Resistance

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Transportation
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...ilicon Valley Gets Wrong about the Future of Transportation, accommodating self driving vehicles will replay what happened in the early 20th century when the automobile and oil industries pushed for significant changes to our roads and cities to make cars work. For instance, these powerful economic and political industries turned the simple act of crossing the street into “jaywalking”. Then there’s all the parking lots, highways, gas stations and...

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