Mycologists would avoid the term in formal communication entirely; the terms of art would be Basidiocarp for basids and Ascocarp for ascos, or sporocarp generally. In less formal communication my experience has been that mushroom is used as a colloquial stand-in for any sort of macroscopic sporocarp. Linguistic prescriptivism can be fun (“Hey guys - did you a tomato is actually a berry?!”) but the stipe-pileus-hymenium model of a mushroom is so narrowly defined I don’t know of anyone who could legitimately stick to it without slipping up at some point.

lol, I could read it just fine the other day. I wonder if they put it behind the paywall because they were getting a bad response. Swapped it out with the archive link. https://archive.li/d516E

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Taxonomically speaking, though, they’re still basidiomycota, same as the “true” gilled mushrooms. I think any reasonable definition of mushroom someone could come up with is going to be para- or polyphyletic and it doesn’t hurt to lump in morels, even if they are in a completely different phylum.

A gills or pores criterion would exclude mushrooms such as truffles and chanterelles (which have tubes or teeth).

An armed society is a dictatorship by the trigger-happy

Beelzebub’s own brimstone-scented claw Kermit-the-Frogging her earthly shell straight from the depths of Tartarus itself, per the royal family’s longstanding tradition was what I’d read

In 2014 Ben Yagoda in the Chronicle of Higher Education named Heffernan among his top candidates for “best living writer of English prose.”

A recent paper reanalyzing some old core samples suggested that the last time Greenland was ice free, atmospheric CO2 was lower than it was today, meaning that the complete collapse of the ice sheet is more a matter of when than if. Once it does go, sea levels will rise around 7 meters. Here’s what New York city is projected to look like with 5 meters of sea level rise:

Times Square is a bit to the north of the top of this photo but it looks like the Times has a plan to get some beachfront real estate.

Other than Kent state gun girl am I supposed to recognize anyone?