Boing Boing’s Mark Frauenfelder did some liveblogging from TED last week, keeping readers up to date with speakers and what they were saying. I was surprised to see that one presenter was none other than Paul Stamets, who spoke on how mushrooms can help the world. Stamets is a legend in the world of mycology – and also with the ‘underground’ due to his classic work Psilocybin Mushrooms of the World (an identification guide to ‘magic mushrooms’). Mark points out a Salon article by Stamets which gives some idea of what he talked about. I’m just hoping he handed out some ‘educational’ packs to the stuffier TED attendees…
Mushrooms at TED
