Fungi based solutions like this really need more good press.
For those interested here's a video from TED Talks of Paul Stamets giving a presentation on using Oyster Mushrooms to decompose diesel and other peptroleum waste among some other amazing uses of other types of fungi.
Paul Stamets: 6 ways mushrooms can save the world - http://www.ted.com/talks/paul_...
Several years ago while having lunch with an ex-girlfriend I started thinking about the ingredients on my burger and how the beef from the cow, lettuce, tomatoes, etc were all recycled atoms of various elements which would go on to further be recycled. I started laughing at this cosmic game. She asked me why I was laughing, and I just said "We're all made of stars!" thinking of the elements having been made in stars. She asked me why I said that and I gave her a 15 minute crash course in the formation of elements in stars and the billions of years it took for all of that to coaelesce in to us.
To my utter amazement resulting with my jaw dropping to the floor she said with a laughing giggle... "No we're not. The world and everything else is only 4000 years old." She wasn't joking. She was dead serious.
I let it go and we dated for a few more months. I never expected that relationship to go very far. It would be a shame if you were to help propagate that level of intellect through breeding. Run...
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I've recently decided to rack up some certifications and have been scouting material I need to read and practice. I've tried several times dealing with e-Books and CBT content. But, it's the paper based material when I worked on it felt like the most productive sessions. I don't get distracted by emails, pop-up alerts, or temptation of visiting/. and the like. The paper written notes and doodles also go a long way in helping with absorbing the knowledge.
I'm just a paper based guy while being an IT nerd. Paper is still a long way from going out of fasion.
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Fungi based solutions like this really need more good press. For those interested here's a video from TED Talks of Paul Stamets giving a presentation on using Oyster Mushrooms to decompose diesel and other peptroleum waste among some other amazing uses of other types of fungi. Paul Stamets: 6 ways mushrooms can save the world - http://www.ted.com/talks/paul_...
Several years ago while having lunch with an ex-girlfriend I started thinking about the ingredients on my burger and how the beef from the cow, lettuce, tomatoes, etc were all recycled atoms of various elements which would go on to further be recycled. I started laughing at this cosmic game. She asked me why I was laughing, and I just said "We're all made of stars!" thinking of the elements having been made in stars. She asked me why I said that and I gave her a 15 minute crash course in the formation of elements in stars and the billions of years it took for all of that to coaelesce in to us. To my utter amazement resulting with my jaw dropping to the floor she said with a laughing giggle... "No we're not. The world and everything else is only 4000 years old." She wasn't joking. She was dead serious. I let it go and we dated for a few more months. I never expected that relationship to go very far. It would be a shame if you were to help propagate that level of intellect through breeding. Run...
I've recently decided to rack up some certifications and have been scouting material I need to read and practice. I've tried several times dealing with e-Books and CBT content. But, it's the paper based material when I worked on it felt like the most productive sessions. I don't get distracted by emails, pop-up alerts, or temptation of visiting /. and the like. The paper written notes and doodles also go a long way in helping with absorbing the knowledge.
I'm just a paper based guy while being an IT nerd. Paper is still a long way from going out of fasion.