# The Big Fungus (moved)

Why a Big Fungus? 

Fungi offer rich, evocative, funny metaphors about symbiosis and collaboration in nature, which fit our mission at Rel8 to create a shared, interconnected memory for humans in multiple ways, including:

- [[Mycelia in the Wood Wide Web]]
	- Mycelia Exchange Minerals for Sugars
- [[Leaf-Cutter Ants Can't Digest Leaves]]. So Why Are They Taking Leaves to Their Nests?
- [[Mushrooms Externalize Their Digestion]]
- [[Fungi are the Principal Decomposers in Ecological Systems]]
- [[Mushrooms Are the Fruiting Bodies of Mycelium]]
- [[Hyphae Connect]]
- [[Fungi Can Be Huge]]
- [[The Matsutake's Peculiar Ecosystem]]
- [[Mushrooms for Bioremediation]]
- [[Magic Mushrooms]]
- [[Data as Healthy Soil]]

Think of The Big Fungus as a layer of assertions and opinions above the Wikipedia, part of [[Data Is the New Soil]]. 

So how might some of us curate The Big Fungus together? See [[The Fungus Manifesto]].

Of course, we have a fledgling website devoted to [The Big Fungus](https://www.thebigfungus.org/). 

A different metaphor for similar reasons: [[The Betterverse]].

Disclaimer: I am not a biologist or mycologist. All errors here are my misinterpretations; all corrections eagerly accepted.