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POPSMushroom Tunnel: Unused Railroad Tunnel Mushroom Farm [PICS] Dr. Arrold has been growing mushrooms in the Mittagong railway tunnel for over 20 years, starting with ordinary soil-based white button mushrooms and Cremini, before switching to focus on higher maintenance exotics such as Shimeji, Wood-ear, Shiitake, and Oyster mushrooms. His mushrooms have evolved: they are species designed for architecture.
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POPSFood-of-the-week: Green Beans Prepare the perennial favorite, green beans almondine, by sprinking slivered almonds on healthy sautéed beans. Add chopped green beans to breakfast frittatas.
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POPS'Fearmonger in Chief' Beck goes militia, warns of impending 'New World Order' That certainly is an interesting "scale of insane things," isn't it? Especially considering how insane you have to be to believe we've actually progressed beyond "recession." Insane, indeed. Anyway, Beck then brings on the capital-investment adviser who sent Beck completely around the bend with his snippet on CNBC speculating that the ultimate solution to the economy would be "global government": Damon Vickers of Nine Points Capital Partners. Vickers is a longtime nutcase who in fact was coming fresh off the Alex Jones show earlier this week, expounding on this same theory. (Fun note: A year ago, Vickers predicted Microsoft was "going nowhere but down." That was when its stock price was at 13. Now it's above 30.) There's a reason the ADL officially dubbed Beck our national "Fearmonger in Chief" this week. And there's a reason militias are springing up like mushrooms everywhere.
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POPS30 things to do with a winter squash Ran out of room – click through for Lamb and butternut squash tagine; Moro's pumpkin pisto; Little pumpkin and pecan tarts; Pumpkin soup with chermoula; Roast butternut pumpkin; Honey-glazed pumpkin wedges; Roasted pumpkin crostini with pancetta; Roast pumpkin, goat cheese and walnuts; Pumpkin risotto; Pasta with pumpkin and chestnuts; and Spiced Pumpkin Cake. Yum!
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POPS"I've seen the future and it's made of mushrooms" more: The inventors have started a company called Ecovative Design to market the technology, and I think they’re really onto something. Just imagine if they’re able to form this product into low-cost, biodegradable auto body panels and other automotive components. Or counter tops. Or flooring. They could even conceivably figure out a way to make children’s toys out of the material. For my sake, I hope they stop short of making dishes and kitchen utensils out of them, though. I don’t eat ANYTHING that touches mushrooms. Blech.
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POPSEffective Toenail Fungus Remedy The efficiency of a toenail fungus remedy doesn't only rest on the drugs or topical solution, instead it is on how you deal with the infection.
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POPSCupcakes for Zombies baking extraordinaire Pamela created these awesome Brain Cupcakes, perfect for zombies who’ve gone vegetarian. The extra little splatter gives it that “just scooped out of the skull” look.
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POPSAmericans Must Back Up This Good Man Cheap, Selfish, Dirty Politicians are pushing up all over the world like mushrooms in season. Only once in a blue moon people get a man of the people in the high seat. If People let him down now through lethargic in-action they will get another Junior George Bush. And they would certaily deserve the scoundrel.
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POPSFairy Rings English folklore, fairy rings were said to be caused by elves, fairies or pixies dancing in a circle, wearing down the grass beneath their feet. Toads would then sit on the mushrooms, poisoning them; hence the name toadstool. In Sussex they were called, “hag tracks”, in Devon people thought that fairies caught young horses and rode them in circles. Another myth states that fairy rings are doors into the fairies' world, transporting people to other places or making people appear in the same place in a different time. Young ladies are also warned not to touch the dew on the grass within the ring, as it is believed that it can cause skin problems. One of the largest rings ever found is in France. It is thought to be about 800 m in diameter and over 700 years old. an old medieval belief that the rings represented places where witches would have their gatherings. In Austria people thought that dragons' breath burned the land. Interesting, views on a natural phenomena.
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POPSLifting the Lid on America's Biowarfare Research Reporting guidelines are so lax that dangerous pathogens such as hantavirus, SARS and dengue fever "are not on the select agent list" nor are there requirements "that the theft, loss or release of these agents ... be reported to Federal officials." More recently, Global Security Newswire reported in June that an inventory at USAMRIID at Fort Detrick, Md., "found nearly 10,000 more vials of potentially lethal pathogens than were known to be stored at the site." The Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine was so-alarmed by the prospect that in 2003 they commented, "the possibility for genetic engineering and aerosol transmission suggests an enormous potential for bioterrorism." Unsaid, of course, was the gravest threat posed by such dark research may be state terrorism. Any one of these pathogens should they escape or made to "disappear," could be transformed into a doomsday weapon.
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POPSThe Sonoran Hot Dog Having lived in Chicago for six years, I thought Chicago-style dogs were the ultimate in massive amounts of toppings ... but this permutation seems a worthy rival!
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POPSChurch Lives Up to Its Name This clip has much to say when taken in context of people proclaiming that all ethics and morals come from God. That and the religious right's contention that drug use is contrary to their religious teaching does smack of some measure of hypocrisy. Or maybe the Church of Universal Love & Music goes by their own set of rules?
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