I read an article the other day about mushroom poisoning amongst a Hmong family, with one fatality. Apparently they included wild mushrooms in a meal; not uncommon to do but they happened to gather Eastern American Destroying Angels. Beautiful name, but as it also suggests, deadly. Half of a Destroying Angels (Amanita verna/verosa) is [...]
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“He said coldly, ‘For God’s sake, don’t start threatening. You can reduce everything, even this, to the level of a cheap feature film.’”
- Children of Men, P.D. James
Read this book a while ago in anticipation of the movie. Although it presents an interesting future - the entire world has gone infertile! - both the book [...]
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From the New Yorker’s recent special issue on Education. It was full of interesting articles about education in general, but nothing as scathing as I would’ve liked critiquing curriculum or anything like that.
This one is about Deep Springs, an intense junior college that’s been around for quite some time yet is still pretty radical in [...]
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