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MycoRant
http://mycorant.com
MycoRant provides news, information, opinion and entertainment with a focus on all things fungal. It's about mycology. It's a rant (sometimes). It might even be fun or useful.
- Added on: Sep 20th, 2009
- Country: United States
- Language: English
- Author: Philip McIntosh
- Listed in: Life Science News & Media
- Tags: fungi mushrooms yeast fungus mycology mycologists
Recent Posts
Here Goes Nothing…
Today is the day. New more magazine-like theme being implemented. If the site looks whack, check back later! Wish me luck! (Note: It’s not working!)...
First Building Material, Now Packaging
Remember some time ago when a couple of graduates from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute introduced their idea of making a mycelium-based construction material with insulating properties? They went on to form a company called Evocative Design and that...
Mycorrhizae to the Rescue
Rehabilitation of an abandoned mine waste site in the Philippines has been assisted by inoculating trees with commercial mycorrhizal inoculum. The article Fungi can rehabilitate barren mine waste dumpsite – study by Rudy A. Fernandez appears in...
Seeking the Perfect Basidiocarp
Mushroom Gills: An Engineering Marvel (David Allen) Ohio-based researchers Nicholas P. Money and Mark Fischer have studied the shape of mushroom caps in an effort to understand how close to a perfect shape actual mushrooms are able to achieve. The ro...
Poll: Links Open in New or Same Window?
I finally found a polling plugin that seems to work. It doesn’t look good on the sidebar though, so I am still limited to putting the poll in a post (I don’t want an ugly sidebar!). Speaking of polls, I think most polls are a stupid waste...
Mycology/Mushroom Instructables
The do it yourself (DIY) movement has really taken off in recent years. Along with that, there has been an explosion of material on the web for how to do all kinds of stuff to save money, impress your friends, and just have fun doing something kind...
