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My Kingdom for a Truffle... They’re everywhere!  Whether you realize it or not, fungi are present throughout the natural world and are perfectly willing to take advantage of any unnatural worlds we might offer them.  Despite their ubiquity, fungi go about most of their business invisible to the human eye, only rarely appearing as a mushroom or a moldy splotch on a chunk of cheddar.  In Mycophilia, food journalist and fungal fanatic Eugenia Bone reveals many of the mysteries of mushrooms and explores how fungi impact our lives in myriad ways. Enthralled by the many culinary applications of mushrooms, Bone [...]

Digging in the Dirt... Author: Richard Polsky After spending some 65 million years buried in rock, Sue was unearthed in western South Dakota and auctioned off for $8.3 million at Sotheby’s in 1997, subsequently taking up residence at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago.  Not surprisingly, this record setting monetary windfall for an almost complete Tyrannosaurus rex fossil skeleton generated a tsunami of enthusiasm, motivating amateur rock hounds across the country.  Richard Polsky catches the bug and tells his tale in the light-hearted Boneheads: My Search for T. rex. A budding paleontologist in his youth, Polsky changed directions [...]