Hi everybody, [And I’m on time this month! :-) ] It’s time to come up with a schedule for JAN, FEB, and MAR, 2022! We’ll nominate books for a week and then actually vote for about 5 days

🤓 whoops, I spelled cetology wrong.

Me too. Exactly. https://etc.usf.edu/lit2go/42/moby-dick/682/chapter-32-cetology/ Becky

I felt the same way about Moby Dick when I read it eons ago. As a character in “Catch-22” said, “too much cetoligy”🤓

I have just finished Wagnerism by Ross- my longest non-fiction work this year. 784 pages. It examines Wagner’s impact on the arts and politics in minute detail, and manages to be an interesting

Nice! Magda

Life as we know it wouldn’t be possible without fungi. I just had a discussion with my husband on nuclear waste eating fungi:) I was extolling their virtues as nuclear waster eaters, and he was

Oops - I did it again. This time I sent it to myself. *** “You see” wrote the English my colorist Beatrix Potter, best known for her children’s books (eg Peter Rabbit) “We do not believe

Carl Sagan’s kinda nutty wife…Yes, she was proved right on so many things!! I was just surprised at how unimpressive a lecturer she was on her own material.

Years ago I saw her on TV for some reason - it was not a glowing interview or article or whatever - she was portrayed as a nut. Now she’s kind of my hero because she came through all that. Her

They made life as we know it possible! By giving us viable forests and medicines and drugs and lots of stuff. Some have been detrimental like toenail fungus. Some have been beneficial like

Problem solving - like picking one option over others for some apparent reason. It may not be “free will” but it’s a sign of basic intelligence or mental processing. (It does not need a

I tend to think that there aren’t any absolute boundaries which define me as an individual. I hear it so often, “You have to set boundaries.” Now what the heck does that mean? I kind of have

Saw a Nature (?) special on slime mold a couple of years ago. Fascinating!

I heard Margolis lecture in person maybe 20 years ago. She did some very impressive work but she was not a great lecturer.

What impact have fungi had on our existence? How has fungi inconspicuously shaped our society? What could fungi do for us? Becky

What defines intelligence? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HyzT5b0tNtk Fascinating video on the intelligence of slime mold - Becky

What are the boundaries that define individuals? Becky

I forgot to send this: What do you know of Lynn Margolis, another badly treated woman in the field of biology with ground-breaking studies in evolution and Gaia Theory (a geoscientist I suppose).

Have you ever taken "magic mushrooms" or (far more rare) “magic truffles"? Psilocybin comes from a mushroom, a fungus. It is supposedly beneficial in treating depression but they’re still