They’re under every step you take. They’re in the air around you, inside of your body, and sometimes on your plate. In fact, they surround you every second of every day.
Some of them are dangerous, while others have healing properties and nutritional benefits that few other organisms can match
Fantastic Fungi is a 2019 American documentary film directed by Louie Schwartzberg. The film combines time-lapse cinematography, CGI, and interviews in an overview of the biology, environmental roles, and various uses of fungi. The film features interview segments with Paul Stamets and Michael Pollan, and is narrated by Brie Larson.
Mushrooms and fungi are not a vegetable nor animal they are something between …. 20,000 mushrooms 🍄 associate fungi with death and decay.
Will mushrooms kill me… mushrooms are a window to understand nature in better ways.
Rotters, Penicillin form, an ability to break down - fungi even helps with oil spills.
Critics praised Schwartzberg's time-lapse cinematography. Some critics found the narration unnecessary.
Josh Kupecki of The Austin Chronicle said "visual affectations aside, Fantastic Fungi is an engaging looks at the scope of an organism that is so much more than a pizza topping or an ingredient in beef stroganoff".[8] Andrew Pulver of The Guardian wrote "With its spectacular footage of growth and decay and impassioned speeches about the magic of mushrooms, this documentary is a treat for the eye and ear". Rex Reed of The New York Observer called the documentary "charming", while John DeFore of The Hollywood Reporter called the film an "[e]ye-opening eye candy".
According to Robert Abele of the Los Angeles Times "it edges a little too close to being a commercial, but that's a nitpick when the totality of Fantastic Fungi is so entertaining, informative and appealingly hopeful about the hard-working cure-all for our ailing world lying beneath our feet".
Louie Schwartzberg’s TED Talks are among the most viewed of all time, with millions of people being moved, touched and inspired by Louie’s exploration into nature’s splendor. Invited time and time again to share what is too slow, too fast, too small and too vast for the human eye, he invites us to experience wonder and awe like we have never experienced before.
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New Town: An artist’s former loft is transformed into an urban jungle
Art and greenery everywhere make this warehouse the perfect place to call home.
The home
The building, in Newtown in Sydney’s inner west, is an early 20th-century warehouse with soaring ceilings, exposed rafters and no dividing walls. With a floor space of only 60 square metres, it is a unique and compact “New-York style” loft dwelling for one.
Who lives here
David Nakhla, a compliance officer.
What we did
David’s brother Andrew lived here before him, and David basically inherited the home complete with furnishings and artworks. He added more plants to the existing greenery.
The Wondrous and Mundane Diaries of Edna St. Vincent Millay | The Nation.
The editor of the collection, Daniel Mark Epstein, ventures that “few, if any, serious reputations” in American literature “have so quickly arisen and burned so brightly” as Millay’s: In 1923, only 12 years removed from her days as a surrogate mother, she became the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for poetry, and in her highly publicized life she also became known for her many flesh-and-blood lovers in the literary world as well as her fatal addiction to morphine.
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Yale Insights – Cryptocurrencies such as Tether, which is pegged to the dollar, have held on as others crashed. “But according to new research by Yale SOM’s Gary Gorton, these “stablecoins” still pose major risks to the global financial system: “Amid the harsh conditions of this year’s “crypto winter,” one category of blockchain currency has fared better than others: stablecoins, which are pegged to an existing currency such as the U.S. dollar or the Euro.
As its counterparts stumbled, the largest stablecoin, Tether, briefly became unshackled from the dollarbut managed to hang on. “They weathered the storm,” says Gary Gorton of Yale SOM. But that doesn’t mean the coast is clear. In several recent publications, Gorton highlights the systemic risks stablecoins pose by comparing them to the private currencies of the past. Those historical analogues ultimately created more problems than they solved and failed to improve on money issued by governments.
The very same problems, Gorton argues, are true of stablecoins today. In a paper co-authored with Sharon Y. Ross of the US Treasury and Chase B. Ross of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors (both Yale SOM alumni), Gorton shows that stablecoins are following patterns similar to the privately issued banknotes of the “free banking” era in American history. During this period, from 1837 to 1863, banks could issue their own money, ostensibly backed by state bonds.
The challenge was that merchants in one region were understandably wary of banknotes from another—resulting in a complex system where currency grew less valuable as the distance from its issuer increased. Lax regulation also made these private notes vulnerable to bank runs. Eventually, to control the chaos, the federal government stepped in and became the exclusive issuer of a uniform national currency…”
