No, we're not tripping: Fungi could eat plastic pollution and grow homes
Mushrooms are intelligent living organisms capable of much more than just giving you a psychedelic high or being a cooking ingredient
11 April 2021 - 00:02
They were here before us. They may be here after us. They're in the air. They're in our guts. They're in our risotto. They are among the most expensive organisms on earth and the largest. They're not plants or animals. They can kill us or sustain us, and are themselves almost immortal. They can also revise your consciousness. You don't even have to take the psychedelic kind; once you start thinking about fungi, the universe changes...
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