[ExI] book: Entangled Life

[William Flynn Wallace]

So, Tara and others, why don't all of us share great reads with the
groups?  Fiction or nonfiction?  That's what I spend most of my day doing -
reading and trying to find new books.   bill w

On Fri, May 14, 2021 at 12:48 PM Tara Maya via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> I read this book, Entangled Lives, while doing research for a science
> fiction series set in the far future. Most people could enjoy it quite
> aside from such a goal, however! It's a great read.
>
> Tara Maya
>
> On May 13, 2021, at 10:58 AM, William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat <
> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>
> This book on fungi goes straight into the top ten books of any kind that I
> have read in my life.  And it's a first book!
>
> What medical marvels are under our feet?  Millions of species largely
> unknown.
>
> Too many things to include.  Just get the book.
>
> One teaser:  DARPA has given a company a grant to develop mycelial
> barracks which will decompose when unneeded  OK, one more for Spike:
>
> Adding 1% extract of two species added to bees' sugar water reduced
> deformed wing virus 80 fold; another fungus reduced levels of Lake sinai
> virus nearly 90 fold; another fungus reduced it 45K fold  The antiviral
> possibilities for bees and us are enormous.
>
> Lamps, furniture from Evocative (400 tons a year), packaging materials
> replacing plastics, fungi to eat plastics, kits to make snowboards and
> furniture, fungi that live on radiation (first thing to come to life in
> Chernobyl), and many many more.  Just stunning.
>
> How smart?  A fungus encountered a bead of glyphosate.  It produced enzyme
> after enzyme for a week until it hit on one that decomposed the
> glyphosate.  Can live happily on used baby diapers and cigarette butts.
> Most companies use vegetative waste.
>
> Just get the damned book!    bill w
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