Sublime

me. I wanted to be buried. If I must depart this life, I thought, let me live on in the soil: let me feed the earthworms, nourish the roots of the trees, like my mother and her mother before her.

At the end of the day, Seidemann and the others loaded their boats on trailers and, with the carp still in them, drove into town. The fish, now inert and glassy-eyed, were dumped into a waiting semi-trailer. This round of barrier defense continued for another three days. The final tally was six thousand four hundred and four silver carp and five hu

A few years ago, Stamets won a patent for a “mycopesticide”—a mutant mycelium from a species of Cordyceps that, after being eaten by carpenter ants, colonizes their bodies and kills them, but not before chemically inducing the ant to climb to the highest point in its environment and then bursting a mushroom from the top of its head that releases it

To field test for AFB, you can pierce it this mass with a stick. When the stick is withdrawn, the substance inside will rope out up to one inch if AFB is present. An infected, dead larvae becomes a hardened black mass on the bottom of the cell floor. These cells are difficult to remove and can trigger additional infection. Colonies with high levels

You are just 10 per cent human. For every one of the cells that make up the vessel that you call your body, there are nine impostor cells hitching a ride. You are not just flesh and blood, muscle and bone, brain and skin, but also bacteria and fungi. You are more ‘them’ than you are ‘you’. Your gut alone hosts 100 trillion of them, like a coral ree