Like many people, I got interested in mycology because I wanted to find wild mushrooms, especially morels, which are in season right now. That required some study on why they lived where they lived. I ...

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In 1927, Robert Gordon Wasson and his wife, Valentina, spent their honeymoon in the Catskills in what would turn out to be a life-altering experience. On a walk through the woods, they came across a ...

There’s a wide world of mycelium hidden in the soil—and unless we dig deeper, we may never know them as more than their fruiting aboveground bodies: mushrooms. Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our ...

In Science Book Talk, a new four-part podcast miniseries, host Deboki Chakravarti acts as literary guide to two science books that share a beautiful and sometimes deeply resonant entanglement. In this ...

A vast fungal web braids together life on Earth. Merlin Sheldrake wants to help us see it. Merlin Sheldrake, author of the best-selling book “Entangled Life.” Credit...Alexander Coggin for The New ...

Introduction: What is it like to be a fungus? -- A lure -- Living labyrinths -- The intimacy of strangers -- Mycelial minds -- Before roots -- Wood wide webs -- Radical mycology -- Making sense of ...