Last year there was medical news about a Gabriola mushroom. Now more on that from the Huffington Post: TEDMED: Can Mushrooms Help the Immune System Fight Cancer? Interview With Paul Stamets, Mycologist. It’s fascinating, and well worth a read. Related: @TEDMED: Catching up with Paul Stamets, mushroom innovator – ted.com.
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Here’s some Monday mushroom content for you: Mycologist Paul Stamets lists 6 ways the mycelium fungus can help save the universe: cleaning polluted soil, making insecticides, treating smallpox and even flu … It’s a video at ted.com; if you’ve got 18 minutes to spare, go take a look Paul Stamets on 6 ways mushrooms can [...]
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Mother Jones magazine has a fascinating article about a fungus that grows on islands near Gabriola. (And who knows? Maybe it grows on Gabriola, too!) The article is Return of the Fungi: In the old-growth forests of the Pacific Northwest grows a bulbous, prehistoric-looking mushroom called agarikon. It prefers to colonize century-old Douglas fir trees, [...]
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