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...that is exactly what happened one ill-fated afternoon last February. Inspectors had found a thick black mold growing between the stucco and the drywall of the master bedroom, bath, study and dining room. After some of it was identified as stachybotrys atra--a fungus that has been linked to everything from sinus infections to brain damage--an industrial hygienist warned the Ilers to evacuate. Thirty minutes later, they abandoned their home forever. "I thought, This can't be happening to me," says Sharyn. "This is my sanctuary. This is where I come when everything else is wrong...
...fraud is "definitely someone who has links to archaeology." But as good as his attention to detail may have been, it wasn't good enough. The first clue: South Asia's ancient civilizations had no tradition of mummification. Also, at Karachi's National Museum, where the mummy was stored, fungus began to grow on the body. Still, given the humidity of Pakistan's southern port megacity, a moldy mummy was not inconceivable. Officials rushed to protect it in a sealed nitrogen chamber...
...Underwater Moonlight producer Pat Collier] sidled up to me at a gig in about 1977, and he’d just got hold of this studio called Alaska, which has sort of its own special fungus and is under one of the bridges in Waterloo Station [in London]. He said, you might like to come try my studio, and a mere two years later we did,” says Hitchcock. Most of Moonlight (working title “That’s My Fish You’re Holding”) was recorded at Alaska for under...
...medicines. The window of the first shop I entered looked promising: dried seahorses were arranged on a dirty glass cabinet with pieces of deer antler inside. The smiling proprietor showed me a range of products that ran from deer's penis to a tea made from summer grass, a fungus that grows on the larvae of bat moths, priced at $600 for 500 grams. (There were no prices quoted for moth larvae penis...
...suspicious of the overtly obvious; for example I don't believe that star fish are really like stars.) Do I then subscribe to the opposite school of Chinese sex aids: that anything incredibly obscure and hard to gather, such as fungus from the larvae of a moth, is more effective...