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Fungi Seeks Similar: Scientist Investigates Mushroom ‘Chat’
Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate—Discoveries from A Secret World (The Mysteries of Nature Book 1)
- In many ways, we are very similar to mycelium.
We need the right conditions to survive and a constant flow of oxygen. We need to communicate to grow.
We need to connect to live.
A good connection is how quickly your world can change when you meet the right person.from Is the Secret to Life a Good Email?
Brian Wiesner added
“From the mycelial ‘wood wide web’ to smart slime molds and political honeybees, science is demonstrating that humans don’t monopolize language or intelligence.”
from Interspecies Communication, an Ultra-Incredible Recovery, and Our Top 5 by Longreads
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What can we learn from fungi? This beautifully illustrated book explores
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- Way beneath every step you’ve ever taken and every step you will take is this thing called mycelium. Long threads of fungi that grow one cell at a time, branching and re-branching, growing in every direction. They even grow three-dimensionally.
from Is the Secret to Life a Good Email?
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- The web isn’t what it used to be. When the editors of Nature compared mycorrhizal fungi to a computer network, the web was still predominantly peer-to-peer, its users sharing their thoughts on personal home pages and homespun message-boards. Online advertising was in its infancy. But as the web has centralized, it has strayed further and further fr... See more
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