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...After a moment of prayer, he reached for a sheet of notepaper and wrote out a short piece for solo violin. "They are all compositions that in some way portray a particular mushroom," he says. As Hálek tells it, he transcribes music that emanates from the fungi...
...After a moment of prayer, he reached for a sheet of notepaper and wrote out a short piece for solo violin. "They are all compositions that in some way portray a particular mushroom," he says. As Hálek tells it, he transcribes music that emanates from the fungi. Hálek, who recently published the first volume of his musical works on mushrooms, may be a bit extreme, but the Czechs are nuts about mushrooms. Seven of 10 Czechs spend at least one day a year foraging. Though every forager keeps his best places secret, mushrooms can be found...
Perhaps for this reason, no evidence was found of JH’s tendency to be mistaken for a Port-O-Potty. And as Pfister points out, urea is highly acidic—a killer that would eradicate, not cultivate, John’s fungi. Evidence of the tradition’s ongoing nature lies in students’ own confessions, statements like those of an anonymous senior in Quincy House, who proudly admits, “Well, I peed on him last weekend...
...nothing out-of-the-ordinary for an outdoor statue. “These are the kinds of species you might find on the metal railings outside University Hall,” says Gray Professor of Systematic Botany Donald H. Pfister, who identified John Harvard’s fungi...
...news is not all bad: some fungi, including those that are wiping out frogs in Australia and Central America, are happier in cool weather. But on balance, says Ostfeld, "a warmer world will be a sicker world." --A.D. and M.D.L...