
Paul Stamets, a fun guy focused on fungi, gave me a troy ounce silver coin, which he minted as a coin collector and mycologist. Now that’s some fungible coinage!
We had dinner together at Craig’s house: “65 million years ago, with the asteroid impact, the sun was blocked and fungi inherited the Earth. Before the asteroid, the pollen to fungal spore ratio was 10:1 and then it became 100% fungi. Those organisms that paired with fungi were rewarded, for fungi do not need light. Today, all plants depend on fungi.”
Here is his evangelical TED Talk, which he updated with Hickey’s discovery of comet nuclei, supporting his belief that fungi form an “externalized neurological network.”
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