We have another multi-part story by Tim Homan.
The big news this week is that our poet laureate, Bob Ambrose, will be presenting poems from his work, "First Genesis, a Modern Telling." The reading will be on Word of Mouth, Cincinnati, via Zoom. Here are the details:
1 Poetry Readings for Word of Mouth, Cincinnati (via Zoom)
Tuesday, September 29, 2020
Zoom room opens at 6:00
Poetry readings begin at 7:00
Featured reader – Bob Ambrose: "First Genesis, A Modern Telling"
(~7:15 to 7:40, after the first set of open readings).
Zoom link.
Fungal items:
2 I'd like to recommend an entertaining and informative book about fungi: Entangled Life, by Merlin Sheldrake. If the Nature Rambler book group were still meeting, I would suggest it. It's well written, accessible and wide ranging. Here's a link to the author's website where you will find lots of short "blurbs" from various sources.
3 A leather-like material made from fungal mycelia. Can it replace real leather?
4 An article from the New York Times Magazine about
people's relationship with mushrooms, real and imaginary, filtered
through the imagination of artists. My reaction was "WTF is this about?" Your reaction may vary.
Not a fungus items:
5 Don't miss this video! It's about Slime molds, organisms that were formerly thought to be fungi, but now are recognized as a kind of unicellular protozoan (now called protist). Being unicellular they lack a brains and nerves but can actually learn! It's a Nova program and is available streaming from PBS and you can get it on your computer directly from PBS. Nova:
Secret Mind of Slime.
6 A movie, My Octopus Teacher, about an intimate relationship that develops between an octopus and a human is available on Netflix. Wonderful undersea photography.
7 All hummingbirds engage in torpor overnight, lowering their body temperature. But how low can they go?
Climate change:
8 What will the climate be like where you live in 40 years? A county by county projection for the entire USA, plus interactive graphics show the national picture. Hint: the Dakotas are looking good.
9 Sea level change will displace millions of Americans. Where will they go and what effect will it have on our country?Migration of people displaced by rising sea levels.
How climate change will reshape America.
Miscellaneous FINE Things:
10 What caused a large die-off of birds in New Mexico:
11 Scientists use seaweed to travel back in time.
12 Amazing lichen diversity discovered in Alaska:
13 Honey bees forage for pollen and nectar over a 5 mile radius of their hive. Native bees don't range nearly as far. Could honey bees impact native bees? (15 min. video)
14 A profile of the Red Cedar tree in BC, the people and the future.
15 A caterpillar that mimics a snake when threatened.
16 An imaging technique that dramatically shows how endangered a species is."The more pixelated the image, the closer it is to extinction," the artist explains.
