Many is the time I’ve called up Mark Avery’s blog on a Sunday and found not just one freshly published book review, but two. However today is the first time I can recall discovering one and a half.
Mark and a Half
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Letting You In On a Secret
I’m not quite certain what has brought widespread interest in fungi to the fore this past decade. Perhaps it has been the expansion of awareness of mycelial networks and their relationship to forests, or maybe it is related to expanding grass-roots campaigns to legalize psilocybin for medical use in the treatment of PTSD and other […]
Mark Contemplates the Tangled Bank
Checking in with Mark Avery, I found him contemplating the tangled bank – not Darwin’s famous tangled bank, mind you; rather Lev Parikian’s forthcoming “Into the Tangled Bank” from Elliott & Thompson, which he has taken up in his most recent Sunday Book Review.
Delicate and Subtle Illumination
Many years ago, when I was just a boy, the night sky seemed much blacker than it does today, but the stars seemed much brighter as well. Camping one long past night at Ft. Stevens State Park, I vividly recall lying on my back with my head outside the tent, looking up at a sky […]