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Fungi Saved the World (2014)

by bentaber on 12/21/17, 10:00 AM with 12 comments

• by mrob on 12/24/17, 4:40 PM

  >two glucose molecules make up sucrose, or table sugar

  Sucrose is made from one glucose molecule and one fructose molecule. Two glucose molecules mostly commonly make maltose.

• by briga on 12/24/17, 4:35 PM

  Wouldn't the high oxygen concentration during that period have done something to counteract the carbon-sequestering effect of Carboniferous trees? I imagine the amount of wild-fires burning would have been significantly higher because of the high oxygen concentration, thus burning off a lot of the dead trees. One way or another the planet is going to maintain an equilibrium.

• by everyone on 12/24/17, 5:28 PM

  Can someone recommend a good pop-sci book that summarizes all natural history? tx!

• by autokad on 12/24/17, 8:14 PM

  i once found a piece of half wood half coal, it wasn't charcoal. I was young and we moved around a lot, so it got los