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Wow. That is cool. Never ever seen these before. I agree, you should provide a report for FungiMap. They have an observation record sheet you can download. M

Ooooh. Item 20 is my favourite. Gives me the pre-launch butterflies. Welcome back Occidentalis.

We were talking specifically about taking wet plant tissue and freezing it. Water in a fresh plant exists in the aqueous phase. Freezing plant tissue converts liquid water to ice, leaving the number of moles of water unchanged hence the mass remains constant. I thought I covered it concisely the first time. Thanks for being my bulldog T.

Uplands here are fruiting. First flush and its small. Sorry, no pics. None were pretty enough.

Harmaline, harmine and tetrahydroharmine are reversible MAOI's. The tyramine contraindication is largely internet mythology. It appears safe to consume bananas, avocados, cheese, red wine, coffee and chocolate within the 24hr period for rue and caapi MAO inhibition. 1mL of water weighs the same, solid or liquid. Nice to see someone coming clean on Acacia phyllodes as admixture. All the information is apparently on here if you use the fucking search engine, but I haven't found much solid.

Anyone interested in purchasing my homeopathic ayahuasca brews?

Oh man. That is so sad! You must get those cuttings out. Trouble is, you won't get many takers on this forum due to the difficulty in getting things shipped into Australia. Beautiful bridgesii, amazing crests, impressive monstrose forms. I hope you can find some takers in the international community.

Awesome! Love those little blue #9 guys! #4 looks like a Yellow Stainer perhaps. Agaricus xanthodermus They are edible but I can't ID for sure from photo. #5 is an Armillaria species. #6 is some kind of Scleroderma? #12 is Amanita ananiceps Bruce Fuhrer's latest is the best fungi guide for SE Australia I think. But the more books you have, the better! They're woefully inadequate given the state of knowledge on our native mycoflora. The #3's do look alot like subs from the top. But the white gills and translucent stems say no. Also, the way those stems fracture in that brittle way is not like subs which tend to remain somewhat attached after breakage. Was it Sherbrooke Forest?

And here I was thinking Botanika was being ironic and poetic...

Is the belief that there are no unicorns a belief system? Say it often enough and "belief" looks and sounds like a word as silly as any other.

Haha! Brilliant! I love it Botanika. You're a poet. And I just noticed JDanger's avatar moves.

I'm an atheist and I'm with Gerbil. You are the infinitesimally unlikely product of a sequence of events billions of years long. Every single one of your long chain of ancestors has survived to reproduce and by tracing them back into deep time you are linked to every organism that surrounds you. You are one of the very few lucky ones, because most people are never born at all. You are one of the lucky ones because you are the universe looking back on itself, a consciousness with the ability to ask the question "Why?". This is where, within a naturalistic worldview, I find belonging and connection to something far greater and a grateful affirmation for the joy in just living. Absorb a landscape vista. Examine a flower. Gaze at the stars. Stand in the rain.

The results cannot be refuted scientifically because there is no evidence to discuss! A) Googling Dr Pjotr P. Garjajev and Dr. Vladimir Poponin provides nothing but a couple of self-referencing websites, one of which is the source for this article. They might not even exist. An ISI Web of Science search of peer-reviewed material for these authors reveals nothing. They might not exist. C) A search for people named "Garajejev" on the RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCE website returns no results. They don't exist. http://www.ras.ru/en/index.aspx D) There are no references to ANY published science of any kind in that article. There is no data. There are no methods. The experiments and the authors might not exist. This is the "Phantom-scientist effect", where things that sound vaguely scientific are emitted from a vacuum of thought, evidence and critical thinking. If you can show me a) you actually exist, then you actually did this experiment then maybe we'll talk about the results. And I only had to read the first paragraph to smell the stink on this...

It's written in a hipster style which I found frivolous and judgmental at times but I'll lap up a good account of anyone's authentic Sapo experience. The magazine has other articles of interest for people like us so check the archive. "In the Amazon rain forest, there lives a very special frog called the Phyllomedusa bicolor, otherwise known as the Sapo. Traditionally, the Mayoruna tribe uses this frog’s gooey secretions to gain superpowers that transform them into killer hunting machines. First they tie the frog up and scare it into releasing its venom (generally via the sophisticated method of poking it with sticks). Next the natives burn little holes in their arms and rub the venom into the wounds. Then they shit and vomit for half an hour, and then they (ostensibly) experience a sharpening and heightening of the senses and an ability to go for days without food or water. This helps them target their prey (which are monkeys, by the way—they eat monkeys). Naturally, after learning about the Mayoruna and their magical frog, we sent our resident mind-alterer, Hamilton Morris, to go forth and try this miracle drug." http://www.viceland.com/int/v16n5/htdocs/the-sapo-diaries-872.php

The housing situation here really is shit. I've been looking for 3 weeks and unless I want to live with weirdos, live in other people's filth or pay through the nose I really have very few options. I thought it was worth putting something out here on this network just in case someone knew of accommodation that might suit. I'm considerate, clean, open minded, easy to live with and social. A real catch on the housemate front if you ask me I'm a postgrad student on a scholarship so can't afford much more than $160 a week. Thanks for any help people.

Sorry mate. Never saw this thread, haven't been around much lately. Regretfully, I'm between houses, otherwise I'd invite you to crash without doubt. Wish I was going to that gig too. Fucking LOVE Massive Attack, just can't justify the $$$ right now... Ah, the student's dilemma. Love.

A belated happy birthday to you man. Sorry, haven't been around here much lately. Looking forward to finally hearing about the trip. Love.

I'd defintely be interested! I love figs. Only thing is I'm pretty sure they wouldn't survive a Canberra winter outside. Do you think they would do alright indoors over winter? M

Always wanted to work in a nursery for a bit. But when I applied for casual jobs as an undergraduate science student with major botanical leanings I was flatly refused. They would only consider hort students. Pff, hort is just applied plant science. And I totally agree, it is something that is picked up practically more than anything else. Probably why I still suck but learn so much every time I dip my foot in!

I'll try to keep my words above 3 syllables then. The subjective experience of transcendental universal truth by its nature lies beyond the boundaries of linguistic description. If this subjective experience therefore is incommunicable, irretrevable from the personal, absolutely isolated from any other mind, then what is it worth? What distinguishes your subjective revelations from the incommunicable occurring in 6 billion other minds?

Very creative. And you're either acutely aware or absolutely ignorant that a speaker says what they are heard to say and not what they intend to say.

Thanks EG. You can stalk me any day. And good post Chiral! Funny fucker. I totally agree. Things change. Cycles cycle. Things fall apart. Things are rebuilt. Time wearies and renews. To wage against this is to be a conservative.

Seems like a good time to ask. What was your nick before you changed it Huichol_Eyebrow? I lose track of the "old jocks" when they change names.