Podcast appearances and mentions of Lawrence Millman

When we think about the origins of Santa Claus most of us envision Saint Nicholas, Sinterklaas and maybe Coca-Cola. Adventurer, writer and mycologist Lawrence Millman sees a large red and white psychedelic 'amanita muscaria' mushroom.

Lawrence Millman is the author of 18 books, and a master of northern writing. We talked about his book Last Places, eating bird shit in Iceland, and his efforts to preserve stories before they fade away.

If you aren't convinced that fungi are omnipresent, bizarre, and mighty, you haven't read Fungipedia. Today we are featuring some of our favorite segments from this book and are joined by the author himself, Lawrence Millman. Lawrence has traveled far and wide on quests for information on the fungal kingdom. Sit back and enjoy some wow factor fun facts on fungi. Topics Covered:Keratinophilic fungi - where they live and how they affect youThe Hair Ice Phenomenon from the fungus Exidiopsis effusaNaturally occurring anti-freeze in various states of fungiThe mushroom culture in Greenland and other Arctic & Antarctic areasCulturing mycelia from mummiesThe Pharaoh's Curse - was it really fungi?Finding the rare polypore Echinodontium ballouii, previously thought to be extinctHow a fungus helped the defeat of the South in the Civil WarThe ban of Shiitake mushroom importsField mycology as a dwindling practiceShow Notes:Buy Fungipedia: https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691194721/fungipediaLawrence Millman's Website: http://lawrencemillman.com/Pyrithione Zinc soap for acne: https://www.amazon.com/Noble-Formula-Pyrithione-Zinc-Original/dp/B00G7TUDA0Pyrithione Zinc soap for dandruff: https://www.amazon.com/Pyrithione-Shampoo-Butter-Grace-Peppermint/dp/B07KX2WYNQHorn Stalkball Photography: http://goweros.blogspot.com/2020/03/horn-stalkball.htmlScience of Hair Ice: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAoMURsb9lM&t=204sAspergillus & the Link the curse: http://www.antimicrobe.org/hisphoto/history/Aspergillus-Mummys%20curse.aspEchinodontium ballouii: https://www.mycobank.org/page/Name%20details%20page/330283

Lawrence Millman is an adventurer, writer and mycologist.  He is the author of many books, including Northern Latitudes, Lost in the Arctic, A Kayak Full of Ghosts, Fascinating Fungi of New England, Mushroom Apocalypse, Giant Polypores and Stoned Reindeer and most recently Fungipedia: A Brief Compendium of Mushroom Lore. His work has also appeared in Smithsonian, National Geographic Adventure, the Atlantic Monthly and Sports Illustrated. He has won numerous awards and has been anthologized in the Best American Travel Writing three years in a row.  Lawrence also holds a Ph.D. in Literature from Rutgers University. He has made over 30 trips to the Arctic and Subarctic during his adventuring career and was a fellow of the prestigious Explorers Club. In his travels he discovered a previously unknown lake in Borneo, and had a mountain named after him outside Tasiilaq in eastern Greenland.  Today we talk about shamanism in the arctic, the use of the psychoactive amanita musica or fly agaric mushroom in those traditions and the connection to the modern Santa Claus myth.

In this special Halloween episode Kim and Mark discuss Season 3, Episode 7 of Unsolved Mysteries. Friendly Ghost Vision Quest & UD Powers of Miss Katie Update: Reincarnation  Join us this week as we discuss hurricane harbingers, past lives, gold leaf excretions and getting to know oneself through psychedelics. James Randi http://www.randi.org https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Randi Lawrence Millman http://lawrencemillman.com/ Jeffrey Mishlove and Stephen E. Braude on Katie – the gold leaf lady https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5eY3yfDIg0&t As always, thank you to Mat Graham from Artificial Fear for allowing us to use his amazing cover of the Unsolved Mysteries Theme Song! Check out his YouTube Channel here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCoQNyGGSIl_ZbEDq-teZDWQ And thank you to Ryan Hughes from Planet H for lending us his spot-on “Stack Voice” and working with us to have such a cool intro and outro! Check out his YouTube Channel here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYrlNAFRMlWQN1rhWboZh2g  

Conversation #182, recorded on Sept 26, 2019. Lawrence Millman, a journalist, explorer and studier of mushrooms is sharing the story of getting his long gestating tome of humorous beginnings entitled "The Book of Origins" through his publisher to the people. Plus, Lawrence reads Vic's favorite origin and shares his struggles with a modern culture lacking a funny bone that pushes the envelope.  Hail Satire! is hosted and produced by Vic Shuttee. Further credits at hailsatire.com - Big thanks to Robert Price for our original theme music and Brendon Duran for the Hail Satire! logo design.

In this episode of Talk Nerdy, Cara is joined by Dr. Lawrence Millman, world-renowned mycologist and author of "Fungipedia: A Brief Compendium of Mushroom Lore." They talk about his fascinating journey from Ph.D. in English Literature to explorer and ethnographer to global expert on fungi. And of course, there's a ton of mushroom talk. Follow Larry: @LawrenceMillman.

In this episode of Talk Nerdy, Cara is joined by Dr. Lawrence Millman, world-renowned mycologist and author of "Fungipedia: A Brief Compendium of Mushroom Lore." They talk about his fascinating journey from Ph.D. in English Literature to explorer and ethnographer to global expert on fungi. And of course, there's a ton of mushroom talk. Follow Larry: @LawrenceMillman.

In this episode, naturalist Maya Elson talks with Lawrence Millman about his life and work as an author and mycologist exploring the fascinating world of fungi.

Alice in Wonderland, chestnut blight, medicinal mushrooms, and more—fungi pop up in our lives in more ways than we think! To introduce us to the remarkable universe of fungi, author and mycologist Lawrence Millman took the stage with his new book Fungipedia: A Brief Compendium of Mushroom Lore, combining ecological, ethnographic, historical, and contemporary knowledge. Millman discussed how mushrooms are much more closely related to humans than to plants, how they engage in sex, how insects farm them, and how certain species happily dine on anything from cockroach antennae to leftover radiation. He delved into the lives of individuals like George Washington Carver, who specialized in crop diseases caused by fungi; Beatrix Potter, creator of Peter Rabbit, who was prevented from becoming a professional mycologist because she was a woman; and Gordon Wasson, a J. P. Morgan vice-president who almost single-handedly introduced the world to magic mushrooms. Millman considered why fungi are among the most significant organisms on our planet and how they are currently being affected by destructive human behavior such as climate change. Join Millman to explore a treasure trove of scientific and cultural information about the world of mushrooms just outside our doors. Lawrence Millman is a mycologist and author of numerous books, including Our Like Will Not Be There Again, Last Places, Fascinating Fungi of New England, and At the End of the World. He has done mycological work in places as diverse as Greenland, Honduras, Iceland, Panama, the Canadian Arctic, Bermuda, and Fresh Pond in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he has documented 321 different species. Presented by Town Hall Seattle and Puget Sound Mycological Society. Recorded live in The Great Hall on October 13, 2019. 

We're joined by Lawrence Millman to talk about his book At the End of the World: A True Story of Murder in the Arctic which is about the murderous cult you never heard of that rose up in the midst of a recently contacted and converted Inuit community in 1941. We talk about other black marks missionaries have left on the Tundra and a bit about his feelings about the digital revolution. This episode is brought to you by: Danielle M Darryl G Arthur K Rachel B Jimmy Ninetoes Al from Cestus Three Kim B SoJo Alan M Alexandra T John A Rob C Henry K Levi C Sam E Adam G Janet Y The Flying Skeptic Daniel J George G Freethinker215 You can find us online at www.atheistnomads.com, follow us on Twitter @AtheistNomads, like us on Facebook, email us at contact@atheistnomads.com, and leave us a voice mail message at (541) 203-0666. Theme music is provided by Sturdy Fred. DOWNLOAD EPISODE

We're joined by Lawrence Millman to talk about his book At the End of the World: A True Story of Murder in the Arctic which is about the murderous cult you never heard of that rose up in the midst of a recently contacted and converted Inuit community in 1941. We talk about other black marks missionaries have left on the Tundra and a bit about his feelings about the digital revolution. This episode is brought to you by: Danielle M Darryl G Arthur K Rachel B Jimmy Ninetoes Al from Cestus Three Kim B SoJo Alan M Alexandra T John A Rob C Henry K Levi C Sam E Adam G Janet Y The Flying Skeptic Daniel J George G Freethinker215 You can find us online at www.atheistnomads.com, follow us on Twitter @AtheistNomads, like us on Facebook, email us at contact@atheistnomads.com, and leave us a voice mail message at (541) 203-0666. Theme music is provided by Sturdy Fred. DOWNLOAD EPISODE

Exploring the Mysteries of Mushrooms Mark welcomes Lawrence Millman to the show. Although we had a number of technical difficulties we got through it! Lawrence Millman is a man of many talents. As an author, he has written 16 books and as a mycologist, he has studied fungi all over the world, but especially in his own backyard of New England. As an explorer, he has made over 40 trips and expeditions to the Arctic and Subarctic. You can learn all about Lawrence here http://lawrencemillman.com/ You can purchase Lawrence’s amazing books here https://amazon.com/Lawrence-Millman/e/B00DP22EKO Music intro: Go To Seed by Eamon Fogarty Music outro: Drone 3 by Transit 161 https://eamonfogarty.bandcamp.com/track/go-to-seed https://transit161.com/music A special thank you to APS Mastering for their support. Visit www.apsmastering.com for all of your Audio Mastering needs.

After criticizing Attorney General Jeff Session's new (so-called) Religious Freedom Taskforce, FFRF attorney Patrick Elliott tells us about our newest lawsuit, challenging the "Lord's Prayer" at Parkersburg, West Virginia, city council meetings. We celebrate the magician James Randi’s 90th birthday by hearing him describe how he was “never religious.” Then we talk with Arctic explorer Lawrence Millman about the senseless 1941 religiously motivated murders in Hudson Bay, described in his new book, At The End Of The World: A True Story of Murder in the Arctic.

Technology often comes into conflict with nature. How has technology changed how we interact with the world? On this episode, Lawrence Millman discussed issues in his book: At The End of the World.

At the End of the World is the remarkable story of a series of murders that occurred in an extremely remote corner of the Arctic in 1941. Those murders show that senseless violence in the name of religion is not only a contemporary phenomenon, and that a people as seemingly peaceful as the Inuit can become unpeaceful at the drop of a hat or, in this instance, a meteor shower.At the same time, the book is a warning cry against the destruction of what’s left of our culture’s humanity, along the destruction of the natural world. Has technology deprived us of our eyes? the author asks. Has it deprived the world of birds, beasts, and flowers?Lawrence Millman's At the End of the World is a brilliant and original book by one of the boldest writers of our era.  AT THE END OF THE WORLD: A True Story of Murder in the Artic-Lawrence Millman