[ExI] book: Entangled Life

[Dave Sill]

I haven't read mine yet, but I've heard good things about _Honeybee
Democracy_.

-Dave

On Fri, May 14, 2021 at 2:54 PM William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> 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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