Sarah’s Reviews > Never Home Alone: From Microbes to Millipedes, Camel Crickets, and Honeybees, the Natural History of Where We Live > Status Update
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“[…] fungi of the genus Tuber, which form symbioses with the roots of trees and then, in order to disperse from one place to another, produce truffles that mimic the pheromone produced by male pigs to attract female pigs. […] the female pigs dig it up, eat it, and then, if the truffle is lucky, poop it somewhere else in the woods near a young tree not yet colonized by truffles.”
So that’s how they do it!
— 6 hours, 5 min ago
So that’s how they do it!
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“We and the Romans are the same (except we substituted football for gladiator fights and they staged events in which naked emperors fought ostriches).”
If anyone decides to revive this custom, my money is on the ostriches. Ostriches are terrifying.
— Sep 23, 2026 11:34AM
If anyone decides to revive this custom, my money is on the ostriches. Ostriches are terrifying.
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Mycobacterium tuberculosis has plagued humans and their ancestors since leaving Africa, then jumped from humans to seals, where it traveled across the ocean and jumped back into the native humans in North America in yet another new strain; several centuries before European humans began colonizing North America.
— Sep 23, 2026 11:13AM