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(Bon Appetit)   The fungi that inspired "The Last of Us" is edible - and super common. But what's weird is this site wrote about it, and it's not a humblebrag about how they will only buy theirs at a place in Brooklyn where their boyfriend knows the owner   (bonappetit.com) divider line
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923 clicks; posted to STEM » on 06 Feb 2023 at 4:45 AM (7 weeks ago)   |   Favorite    |   share:  Share on Twitter share via Email Share on Facebook



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JasonOfOrillia [TotalFark]
2023-02-06 5:59:18 AM  
"Eat more cordyceps"

Fungal-like typing detected.
 
Zenith
2023-02-06 5:59:38 AM  
does it give you echolocation?
 
Tom Marvolo Bombadil
2023-02-06 6:52:11 AM  
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Pants full of macaroni!! [BareFark]
2023-02-06 7:51:53 AM  
It wasna so much a fungus as.... a blancmange.
 
question_dj [TotalFark]
2023-02-06 7:54:47 AM  
It's weird, because anyone that watches any kind of science or nature programming has been aware of cordyceps for years. Anyone that's granola and into Chinese medicine has probably been taking cordyceps for longer.

But the bulk of Americans? If it's not on some dumb entertainment tv show, they're completely unaware of it.
 
question_dj [TotalFark]
2023-02-06 8:01:58 AM  
Here is the next thing that horror-tv will be based on, the flesh-eating fungus Massospora cicadina

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/artful-amoeba/zombie-cicadas-bodies-are-literally-falling-apart/
 
Kar98
2023-02-06 8:27:51 AM  
One fungi is called a fungus, Mr. SMRT Subbus.
 
ArcadianRefugee
2023-02-06 8:43:28 AM  

Kar98: One fungi is called a fungus, Mr. SMRT Subbus.


.
Cordyceps is a genus of some 600 worldwide species, most of which are endoparasitoids .
 
Kar98
2023-02-06 9:00:03 AM  

ArcadianRefugee: Kar98: One fungi is called a fungus, Mr. SMRT Subbus.

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Cordyceps is a genus of some 600 worldwide species, most of which are endoparasitoids .


Right, and now read that headline again, slowly.
 
ArcadianRefugee
2023-02-06 9:06:34 AM  
So he should have used "are".
 
Kar98
2023-02-06 9:09:05 AM  

ArcadianRefugee: So he should have used "are".


There ya go.
 
eyeq360 [TotalFark]
2023-02-06 9:16:54 AM  

ArcadianRefugee: So he should have used "are".


Fungi could be used as a collective noun and referring to the cordyceps genus as a whole, so the use of "is" would be correct. But if fungi is being used as a plural form, then "are" is correct.
 
Kar98
2023-02-06 9:30:10 AM  

eyeq360: ArcadianRefugee: So he should have used "are".

Fungi could be used as a collective noun and referring to the cordyceps genus as a whole, so the use of "is" would be correct. But if fungi is being used as a plural form, then "are" is correct.


"Fungi is the plural of fungus" is the only way "fung is" is correct :P
 
MythDragon
2023-02-06 9:48:18 AM  
Cordyceps has always kinda freaked me the fark out. Long before the game came out, one of my irrational fears has been that it would start affecting people. I would never eat it,because I don't want to be the one for whom the fungus decides "today is the day".

I once saw some poor caterpillar with a fungus growing out of its head. I stomped that poor thing, because nothing deserves to go out like that.
 
RobotSpider
2023-02-06 9:49:32 AM  
Eating lots of it would be the fastest way to sort out the spores that can and can't survive the human digestive/immune system. So by all means, let's speed up the apocalypse.
 
jakedata [TotalFark]
2023-02-06 10:31:30 AM  
"The fact that we don't have a pathogen that has been able to come up with this strategy to hijack our minds does not mean that it's not a possibility at some point."

Our minds have already been hijacked. We need to evolve defenses or be turned into Eloi.
 
Tyrone Slothrop [TotalFark]
2023-02-06 10:50:22 AM  
"As the Goop-pilled among us know..."

How to say "I'm a gullible idiot" without saying it.
 
CordycepsInYourBrain
2023-02-06 11:07:54 AM  

MythDragon: Cordyceps has always kinda freaked me the fark out. Long before the game came out, one of my irrational fears has been that it would start affecting people. I would never eat it,because I don't want to be the one for whom the fungus decides "today is the day".

I once saw some poor caterpillar with a fungus growing out of its head. I stomped that poor thing, because nothing deserves to go out like that.


How you doin'?
 
The Bestest
2023-02-06 11:12:12 AM  

jakedata: "The fact that we don't have a pathogen that has been able to come up with this strategy to hijack our minds does not mean that it's not a possibility at some point."

Our minds have already been hijacked. We need to evolve defenses or be turned into Eloi.


there's already GI bacteria that alter our food cravings
 
Zenith
2023-02-06 11:27:15 AM  

jakedata: "The fact that we don't have a pathogen that has been able to come up with this strategy to hijack our minds does not mean that it's not a possibility at some point."

Our minds have already been hijacked. We need to evolve defenses or be turned into Eloi.


I thought Cordyceps left the brain alone and just hijacked the muscles directly. kinda more creepy and impressive if you have a moment to dwell on that.
 
replacementcool
2023-02-06 12:01:14 PM  

question_dj: It's weird, because anyone that watches any kind of science or nature programming has been aware of cordyceps for years. Anyone that's granola and into Chinese medicine has probably been taking cordyceps for longer.

But the bulk of Americans? If it's not on some dumb entertainment tv show, they're completely unaware of it.


most people don't know most things, this isn't complicated - it's because we live in a complicated universe.
 
crozzo
2023-02-06 12:32:26 PM  

MythDragon: Cordyceps has always kinda freaked me the fark out. Long before the game came out, one of my irrational fears has been that it would start affecting people. I would never eat it,because I don't want to be the one for whom the fungus decides "today is the day".

I once saw some poor caterpillar with a fungus growing out of its head. I stomped that poor thing, because nothing deserves to go out like that.


Those were my antennae, you flat-footed ox! And as soon as the snow melts, I'm crawling up your wall onto your roof, slipping through the ridge vent, and working my way down behind the sheetrock until I'm right above your headboard. All that's left is to chew through a half inch of gypsum. And then, ha-HA! Who'll be laughing then?

So probably looking about August.
 
austerity101
2023-02-06 12:59:39 PM  

Tyrone Slothrop: "As the Goop-pilled among us know..."

How to say "I'm a gullible idiot" without saying it.


Yeah, why the f*ck is like 50% of this "article" devoted to pseudoscience nonsense?
 
Olympic Trolling Judge
2023-02-06 1:13:39 PM  
Meanwhile, the fungi that inspired Super Mario Bros. are federally regulated under Schedule I.
 
bingethinker [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-02-06 1:31:50 PM  

Tom Marvolo Bombadil: [Fark user image 366x500]


Yes, very tasty.
 
Lexx
2023-02-06 1:32:37 PM  
Fungi are eurkaryotes just like us (structure of cell, presence of organelles, etc).  That fact alone makes it obscenely difficult to develop drugs to fight infections in humans.  That whole "the pathogenic ones don't survive well above 92 degrees Fahrenheit thing" is about the only thing protecting us.  The hotter the world gets, the worse the situation gets for us - because a hotter world applies selective pressure to the evolution of fungi.  Any fungi that can survive global warming can probably survive inside a human.
 
ArcadianRefugee
2023-02-06 2:31:44 PM  

Kar98: ArcadianRefugee: So he should have used "are".

There ya go.


You didn't correct subby on the verb; you pointed out the noun.
 
leeksfromchichis [TotalFark]
2023-02-06 3:34:15 PM  
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What's going on in this thread!?
 
oldfool
2023-02-06 4:04:57 PM  
Anything is edible if you're hungry enough.
 
leeksfromchichis [TotalFark]
2023-02-06 5:05:11 PM  

oldfool: Anything is edible if you're hungry enough.


All fungi are edible once.
 
Diagonal [TotalFark]
2023-02-06 5:29:06 PM  
Point of Order, please

"about how they will only buy theirs at a place in Brooklyn where their boyfriend knows the owner"


If we're going to make "their" a singular pronoun to replace he, she, him, her, his, hers, and suchas, then shouldn't that be "theirfriend"??
 
a particular individual [TotalFark]
2023-02-06 5:33:11 PM  
Is that writer paid by the word? A halfway competent editor could have cut that in half.

Also, is their name really Sam Stone? Or is it Bon Apetit's version of Alan Smithee?
 
slobberbone [TotalFark]
2023-02-06 5:37:45 PM  
Diagonal:If we're going to make "their" a singular pronoun to replace he, she, him, her, his, hers, and suchas, then shouldn't that be "theirfriend"??

Don't you have some books to burn? And/or a bed to wet?
 
Olympic Trolling Judge
2023-02-06 5:41:55 PM  

slobberbone: Diagonal:If we're going to make "their" a singular pronoun to replace he, she, him, her, his, hers, and suchas, then shouldn't that be "theirfriend"??

Don't you have some books to burn? And/or a bed to wet?


I just wonder what English teacher failed them that they think "boy" is a pronoun.
 
DownStreamDreaming
2023-02-06 5:43:56 PM  
Cordyceps are one of those evolutionary realities that actually break my brain to consider.

I could be wrong, but I don't think there is evidence of one species of cordyceps quickly hopping from one host species to another.  The tangled dance of co-evolution at the bottom of their existence is just magnificently difficult to believe.
 
GoodHomer
2023-02-06 7:13:25 PM  

Tom Marvolo Bombadil: [Fark user image 366x500]


I'd eat that
 
leeksfromchichis [TotalFark]
2023-02-06 8:08:00 PM  

Olympic Trolling Judge: slobberbone: Diagonal:If we're going to make "their" a singular pronoun to replace he, she, him, her, his, hers, and suchas, then shouldn't that be "theirfriend"??

Don't you have some books to burn? And/or a bed to wet?

I just wonder what English teacher failed them that they think "boy" is a pronoun.


Probably the same one that didn't pass on the fact they/their has been used for singular cases as well since the 1500's.
 
Diagonal [TotalFark]
2023-02-06 10:34:26 PM  

leeksfromchichis: Olympic Trolling Judge: slobberbone: Diagonal:If we're going to make "their" a singular pronoun to replace he, she, him, her, his, hers, and suchas, then shouldn't that be "theirfriend"??

Don't you have some books to burn? And/or a bed to wet?

I just wonder what English teacher failed them that they think "boy" is a pronoun.

Probably the same one that didn't pass on the fact they/their has been used for singular cases as well since the 1500's.


Just because it was used that way doesn't make it right. Thanks for playing.

Also, congrats on your humorectomy. Glad to see it worked out so well for you.

/bitbin
 
Excelsior
2023-02-07 12:55:37 AM  

Pants full of macaroni!!: It wasna so much a fungus as.... a blancmange.


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leeksfromchichis [TotalFark]
2023-02-07 12:57:32 AM  

Diagonal: leeksfromchichis: Olympic Trolling Judge: slobberbone: Diagonal:If we're going to make "their" a singular pronoun to replace he, she, him, her, his, hers, and suchas, then shouldn't that be "theirfriend"??

Don't you have some books to burn? And/or a bed to wet?

I just wonder what English teacher failed them that they think "boy" is a pronoun.

Probably the same one that didn't pass on the fact they/their has been used for singular cases as well since the 1500's.

Just because it was used that way doesn't make it right. Thanks for playing.

Also, congrats on your humorectomy. Glad to see it worked out so well for you.

/bitbin


 I was agreeing with you! It's called "Yes, and-ing"
 
DrunkenBob
2023-02-07 6:42:00 AM  
So another truffle-priced fungii.  I'll stick with corn smut.

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New Farkin User Name
2023-02-07 7:02:15 AM  

Diagonal: leeksfromchichis: Olympic Trolling Judge: slobberbone: Diagonal:If we're going to make "their" a singular pronoun to replace he, she, him, her, his, hers, and suchas, then shouldn't that be "theirfriend"??

Don't you have some books to burn? And/or a bed to wet?

I just wonder what English teacher failed them that they think "boy" is a pronoun.

Probably the same one that didn't pass on the fact they/their has been used for singular cases as well since the 1500's.

Just because it was used that way doesn't make it right. Thanks for playing.

Also, congrats on your humorectomy. Glad to see it worked out so well for you.

/bitbin


...yes it does that's how language works
 
iaazathot
2023-02-07 5:02:42 PM  
That TV show will be a documentary because of idiots like this.
 
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