{"id":169880,"date":"2023-08-17T17:23:51","date_gmt":"2023-08-17T22:23:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/fungaltopia-its-1115-in-the-morning-on-one-of-the-hottest-days-in-history-and-im-in-a-white-walled-exhibition-space-staring-at-a-domed-structure-suspended-from-the-ceiling"},"modified":"2023-08-17T17:23:51","modified_gmt":"2023-08-17T22:23:51","slug":"fungaltopia-its-1115-in-the-morning-on-one-of-the-hottest-days-in-history-and-im-in-a-white-walled-exhibition-space-staring-at-a-domed-structure-suspended-from-the-ceiling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/fungaltopia-its-1115-in-the-morning-on-one-of-the-hottest-days-in-history-and-im-in-a-white-walled-exhibition-space-staring-at-a-domed-structure-suspended-from-the-ceiling","title":{"rendered":"FungalTopia: It\u2019s 11:15 in the morning on one of the hottest days in history and I\u2019m in a white-walled exhibition space, staring at a domed structure suspended from the ceiling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/fungaltopia.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The dome is varnished matte black and shaped somewhere between an oversized eco-chic lampshade and a fifth grader\u2019s diorama of a volcano\u2014all pudgy curves and asymmetric slopes. Underneath sits a small table, almost a stool, made of the same amorphous material. The table is fitted with a brass fixture loosely reminiscent of a guitar but (so the adjacent panel tells me) is actually a replica of the 17th-century microscope designed by Dutch scientist Antonie van Leeuwenhoek\u2014a nod to the father of microscopy.<\/p>\n<p>From a speaker concealed in the dome, a voice intones:<\/p>\n<p><em>In the midst of a global pandemic, on the eve of an irreversible climate emergency, and in the early, thrilling decades of a biotech revolution, the human race began to question its relationship to the natural world. For many years, scientists believed life to be a competition, one that humanity must win\u2026 But as biologists learned more about living systems, it became undeniable that interdependence was key to understanding life on Earth.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The dome is varnished matte black and shaped somewhere between an oversized eco-chic lampshade and a fifth grader\u2019s diorama of a volcano\u2014all pudgy curves and asymmetric slopes. Underneath sits a small table, almost a stool, made of the same amorphous material. The table is fitted with a brass fixture loosely reminiscent of a guitar but [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":599,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,493,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-169880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-climatology","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/599"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169880\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}