Creating mini mushroom worlds 🎨

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Eye candy 👀

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Artist Helen Dardik brings us into the vibrant mini world of mushrooms!

Check out Helen’s other mushroom-inspired art and web store here.

Growing gourmet 🍽

MicroMyco: In downtown Madison, Wisconsin, Andrew Griffin turned a call center into a low-key urban mushroom farm.

Junior shroomers: Vermont school students chose Hericium Americanum, aka the Bear’s Heard Tooth, as the official state mushroom.

Legislation nation ⚖

Back in business: A Vancouver psychedelics dispensary got its business license reinstated following a city council hearing.

Meanwhile: FunGuyz in Kitchener, Ontario, opened its second psilocybin dispensary — despite not applying for a city business license.

Research roundup 🧪

Myco cooling: Scientists in Egypt and Saudi Arabia have found that repurposing mushroom cultivation waste helps boost thermal energy efficiency in clay bricks.

Real knows real: Bona fide mushroom extracts outperform synthetic psilocybin in potency and duration, according to a new study.

Astromycology: A Johns Hopkins professor received a $1.25 million grant to research how fungi work in space — such as sustainable spacecraft food.

Across the shroomer-verse 🌌

All about neuroplasticity: New research suggests that psychedelics may help treat Alzheimer’s symptoms and improve patients’ quality of life.

Healthy neurons: Psilocybin’s effects on neural activity might also make it a useful tool for treating addiction disorders, including Alcohol Use Disorder.