No, not that cousin. I mean the real fungus, the kind that grows where light is scarce and moisture abundant. We usually think of mushrooms as populating the soil, but I remember a spidery fluorescent orange one that grew in the carpet under the drinking fountain just outside my dorm room in college. And who hasn’t joked about the new civilizations forming in the fridge?

What I didn’t know until recently was that we’re related to fungi. Read More…