Crack open your dumb old phone, and you’ll find lots of circuits and no lack of precious metals. "In 100,000 cell phones, it’s estimated that there is 2.4 kilograms of gold, more than 900 kilograms of copper, 25 kilograms of silver, and more," according to Motherboard. Could a safer and and cheaper method of recovering that metal come by way of fungi?
The most I can harvest from my lampshades is a thick layer of dust, so I am simultaneously impressed and completely grossed out by these MYX fixtures made from mycelium. They’re grown into form, and edible mushrooms can actually be reaped from the top before they’re hung in place.
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Researchers at Scotland’s Abertay University are getting a brand new look at the seemingly nondescript world hidden in plain sight—the soil beneath our feet.
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In this week’s round-up of landscape reads, we’ve got sacred grounds, coffee grounds, and camping grounds.
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To grow mushrooms is to let things rot, so something’s a lot of things are rotten in the state of Pennsylvania.
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Don’t you sometimes wish that you could just earn extra lives in real life, just like in video games? While there’s not yet a way to do that, you can still eat some tasty 1up mushrooms, thanks to our geeky food pal Chris-Rachael Oseland.
These 1up mushrooms aren’t just fungi from a can. Nope, they’re delicious pizza puffs made from biscuit dough and filled with pepperoni, mozzarella, onions and mushrooms. Yes, that’s right. Mushroomception. That stuff on top? Pesto, and a little green food coloring. Yum, green. It’s also got edible ball bearings for the eyes. Yum, ball bearings.
Check out the full recipe and give yourself unlimited lives over at Kitchen Overlord.
Mushrooms may be most famous for their pizza prowess and psychedelic strains, but Paul Stamets, renowned mycologist and mushroom enthusiast, has much loftier visions for everyone’s favorite fungi. He believes that the solution to some of the world’s biggest problems lies in mushroom farming. More »
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