Shroom coffins
Wooden coffins? That trend is so dead. With a goal of making the human burial — and decomposition — process more environmentally-friendly, a company has invented the Living Cocoon, a coffin made from mushrooms that returns the deceased to the earth while enriching it....
Mushroom Bills Filed In Florida And Connecticut As Movement Expands To Multiple States
Lawmakers in Connecticut and Florida have filed new bills to reform state laws on Psilocybin mushrooms—the latest in a trend of psychedelics proposals to emerge in 2021. Rep. Michael Grieco (D) filed the Florida legislation on Thursday, which would establish a...
Kole Milner Bust
This story was written by Seth Austin of ITW.NEWS. The Denver post reports: ‘The young man with a tent full of psychedelic mushrooms in his closet isn’t worried about the cops. “Basically, everything in my apartment’s legal — so I feel safe in that aspect,” he said....
“I Went To The Dentist On Mushrooms” By: Colin Wells
The dentist adjusts the set and setting of his drill. My teeth are numb but my body, mind and soul feel it all. I’ve eaten two grams of albino penis envy (APES) mushrooms, the fruit of spores once dormant, and I’m about to get fillings. Dentist calls me an interesting...
Secondary Metabolites
Secondary Metabolites, “MYC Piss Explained, by Seth Austin of ITW.NEWS. Mushrooms have their own metabolism, it is how they consume their substrate. Unlike plants that use photosynthesis, think of them as moving stomachs with the ability to respond to stimuli....
ITW Collab – Mycoheterotrophy
Mycoheterotrophic ParasitismBY: @C_Y_SPAMIn school, we’re taught that plants make their own food from carbon dioxide, water, and energy from the sun thanks to a green, sun-catching pigment called chlorophyll, right? While that’s entirely true for about 99% of plants,...
Fly Killer Fungi
Two newly discovered fungi species have a similarly macabre mode of action: They eat flies alive while using them to drop spores on new victims.The related species, Strongwellsea tigrinae and Strongwellsea acerosa, attack the fly species Coenosia tigrina and Coenosia...
ITW Collab – Orchids
Photo: Joey Santore (pogonia ophioglossoides)Orchids + FungusesBy: C_Y_SpamIf you can believe it, until about the 60’s, the scientific community considered the immense world of fungi to be a mere offshoot of the plant kingdom. Though we now know much more about the...
María Sabina Magdalena García
Maria was believed to be born in 1894-98 in the mountainous Mexican district of Huatla, but no records to prove it. Born into a poor family with ancestral shamans, she quickly took a liking to her grandparents who helped train her in the ways of communicating with God...