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  1. Mystery Writer March 14, 2015 One of my finest moments occured at Na-Bolom in San Christobal de las Casas, Mexico, in the fall of 1992. I had just given a talk about the Labrador Innu in…
  2. An Encounter with Terana caerulea July 2, 2014 Not so long ago, I was visiting a stamp-collecting friend, and I happened to see the corticioid species Terana caerulea on a recent Macedonian stamp. A…
  3. Santa Claus Is a Mushroom! December 17, 2013 Christmas is nearly upon us, and I can’t help thinking of a certain mushroom. Specifically, I think of Amanita muscaria , a large, often obese…
  4. Sixteen Reasons Why Giant Madagascar Hissing Cockroaches (Gromphadorhina portentosa) Make Good Pets October 24, 2013 1. They do not bite you, scratch you, or leave dead mice on your pillow. Nor do they confuse your leg with a sexual partner. 2. Their slow, indeed downright…
  5. An Unsung Hero April 23, 2013 In honor of the excessive media coverage of the Boston Marathon bombings, I’ve decided to write this bog posting about an Arctic explorer named Paul…
  6. A True Mycophile July 31, 2012 It’s been so disturbingly dry and bereft of fungi here in the Northeast that I feel a strong sense of foreboding. At any moment, I expect to see the Five…
  7. North of Siberia (Part 2) July 8, 2012 Still on Wrangel Island (red arrow) For those of you who read my previous bog post , I still haven’t left Siberia’s Wrangel Island. In the…
  8. Bibliodeath Date unknown Bibliodeath, by Andrei Codrescu Poet, NPR commentator, novelist, literary magazine editor, travel writer, English professor, polyglot, gentleman farmer, and…
  9. North of Siberia Date unknown The more remote the destination, the happier I am, so in the summer of 2003 I joined a Russian expedition to Wrangel Island, a 5,180 square kilometer chunk of Arctic real estate several hundred miles north of Siberia.
  10. A Living Trilobite Date unknown Here, at last, is a bog posting set in a bog — specifically, Chickering Bog in Calais, Vermont.
  11. Kitchen Art Date unknown You don’t have to go foraging in the distant woods to find fungi.