So, Ballpit, what did we learn today?

[A Meat]

I learned that giant puffball mushrooms exist, and they can get up to the size of a beach ball. Also if you search Google Images for giant puffball you can find lots of photos of people proudly showing off freakishly large mushrooms they've found

[Macho Masc Sangy Savage]

I learned that giant puffball mushrooms exist, and they can get up to the size of a beach ball. Also if you search Google Images for giant puffball you can find lots of photos of people proudly showing off freakishly large mushrooms they've found

I had a bunch of these in my yard as a kid!! I liked to jump on them and then eat shit because I slipped. Good times

[A Meat]

I learned that giant puffball mushrooms exist, and they can get up to the size of a beach ball. Also if you search Google Images for giant puffball you can find lots of photos of people proudly showing off freakishly large mushrooms they've found

I had a bunch of these in my yard as a kid!! I liked to jump on them and then eat shit because I slipped. Good times

I hope you did that while they were still white and immature, because the spore cloud from the fully mature (and frankly ugly) ones could fuck up your lungs

[A Meat]

I'm learning a lot from this intro to mycology course, including the stuff about puffballs from my previous post, but also that Beatrix Potter (before she wrote children's books) was a mycologist who wrote scientific papers on mushroom reproduction and regularly did scientific illustrations of mushrooms

[Macho Masc Sangy Savage]

I learned that giant puffball mushrooms exist, and they can get up to the size of a beach ball. Also if you search Google Images for giant puffball you can find lots of photos of people proudly showing off freakishly large mushrooms they've found

I had a bunch of these in my yard as a kid!! I liked to jump on them and then eat shit because I slipped. Good times

I hope you did that while they were still white and immature, because the spore cloud from the fully mature (and frankly ugly) ones could fuck up your lungs

Looks like there are two kinds of mushrooms called puffball mushrooms. The ones I'm thinking of are white and solid all the way through. And can get enormous!

[A Meat]

I learned that giant puffball mushrooms exist, and they can get up to the size of a beach ball. Also if you search Google Images for giant puffball you can find lots of photos of people proudly showing off freakishly large mushrooms they've found

I had a bunch of these in my yard as a kid!! I liked to jump on them and then eat shit because I slipped. Good times

I hope you did that while they were still white and immature, because the spore cloud from the fully mature (and frankly ugly) ones could fuck up your lungs

Looks like there are two kinds of mushrooms called puffball mushrooms. The ones I'm thinking of are white and solid all the way through. And can get enormous!

that's what they look like when they're immature, maturation causes them to develop a shitload of spores inside and eventually look more like this

[Macho Masc Sangy Savage]

G R O S S

[Great Joe]

I learned that giant puffball mushrooms exist, and they can get up to the size of a beach ball. Also if you search Google Images for giant puffball you can find lots of photos of people proudly showing off freakishly large mushrooms they've found

I had a bunch of these in my yard as a kid!! I liked to jump on them and then eat shit because I slipped. Good times

I hope you did that while they were still white and immature, because the spore cloud from the fully mature (and frankly ugly) ones could fuck up your lungs

Looks like there are two kinds of mushrooms called puffball mushrooms. The ones I'm thinking of are white and solid all the way through. And can get enormous!

that's what they look like when they're immature, maturation causes them to develop a shitload of spores inside and eventually look more like this

There's also an intermediate stage where they'll look white on the outside but if you cut into one it'll be mostly green on the inside. If you find one and it still hasn't developed the green stuff, it's still edible, and I hear they taste pretty good.

[A Meat]

There's also an intermediate stage where they'll look white on the outside but if you cut into one it'll be mostly green on the inside. If you find one and it still hasn't developed the green stuff, it's still edible, and I hear they taste pretty good.

as far as I know you're right, but next week we have a guest lecture from an expert on mushroom foraging and edible mushrooms in general, so I'll let you know if I learn otherwise

[Great Joe]

Oh also, in Icelandic they're called gorkúlur, because that green stuff is the colour of a cow's gore.

[Macho Masc Sangy Savage]

Fungi: partly fascinating, mostly terrifying

[A Meat]

Michael J. Fox was born as Michael A. Fox, but he decided to have his middle initial be J. in honor of Michael J. Pollard, who played C. W. Moss in Bonnie and Clyde

[Great Joe]

Late 1800s miners loved opera.

[A Meat]

What we call in English a Danish pastry is called wienerbrød in Danish, which means Viennese bread, but in Vienna they call it Kopenhagener after the capital of Denmark

[Macho Masc Sangy Savage]

The loading animation has a technical name, and it's called a throbber. I hate it, and the inventor

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Throbber