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If deaths from mushroom poisoning are any metric of national fungal enthusiasm, compare the one or two deaths a year in the United States with the two hundred deaths in Russia and Ukraine in the year 2000.
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Within complex adaptive systems, small changes can bring about large effects that can only be observed in the system as a whole. Rarely can a neat arrow be plotted between cause and effect. Stimuli--which may be unremarkable gestures in themselves--swirl into often surprising responses. Financial crashes are a good example of this type of dynamic nonlinear process. So are sneezes, and orgasms.
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The variety of banana that accounts for ninety-nine per cent of global banana shipments, the Cavendish, is being decimated by a fungal disease and faces extinction the coming decades.
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Reminds me pf Olga Tokarczuk's books. I'm guessing deaths from mushroom poisoning might be high in Poland too—though I'm sure levels of knowledge about mushrooms is high there too.
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Fionnuala wrote: "Reminds me pf Olga Tokarczuk's books. I'm guessing deaths from mushroom poisoning might be high in Poland too—though I'm sure levels of knowledge about mushrooms is high there too."I kept thinking of Olga while I was reading this, Fionnuala, perhaps because of the connecting networks but also because of a mushroom-y feel. If that makes sense. And, growing up we had Polish Borscht every Christmas Eve. Unlike its red, beet-y Russian cousin, Polish Borscht was beige from a roux, and had lots and lots of sautéed mushrooms in it!
