When we hear the word mushroom, most of us picture an umbrella shaped vegetable that we either loved or hated as a kid. However, you may not know that what you find in the supermarket is only the fruiting body of a much more complex fungal network known as mycelium. Mycelium are thread like structures that branch into underground networks. Often quoted the Earth’s natural Internet, mycelium create a link between plant roots which allows for widely separated plants to stay connected.
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What is the air-speed velocity on an unladen swallow?
Well, the most obvious answer- you might think- is “An African or European swallow?” But this is, indeed, where film culture begins to diverge from real life. Because in actual fact, none of the 47 swallow species found on the continent directly bears its name. We might consider the West African swallow, or the South African Cave swallow, however a choice between these two would be completely arbitrary- and neither is sufficiently studied to provide the data we need…