Hair Ice Mycelium❄️🍄 In late December 2025, while walking through our neighbourhood parks in the early morning (right at dawn), we stumbled across something I had never seen before, and it stopped me in my tracks. After weeks of storm activity, the forest floor was littered with fallen branches, especially cottonwood. But one branch looked… strange. It had split along the stem, and from inside it was “spewing” this white, silky material ; almost like someone had sprayed sil

WHEN GIANTS SLEEP A living tribute to Ruby – chosen family, science, and a life lived without apology. When giants sleep, you don’t just notice their absence – you notice how much of the world they held up. Ruby has been one of those giants in my life: intimidating, brilliant, stubborn, fiercely kind, and utterly committed to science and the living world. As she is approaching the final pages of her story, I realize I don’t want to speak about endings until I’ve honoured the

Remembering My Great-Grandfather, Theodor Bastian Every Remembrance Day, we pause to honour those whose sacrifices secured the freedoms we enjoy today. For me, remembrance is both a personal and historical reflection from reaching back to stories I never had the chance to hear firsthand, yet which continue to shape the fabric of my family’s history. My great-grandfather, Theodor Bastian, was a member of the White Army in Russia, one of countless soldiers caught in the upheava

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