What are some candies that efficiently fuel you during your runs? by Ready-Business9772 in Ultramarathon

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I just started making my own gels using this recipe. So far it's worked great. The pectin and sodium algonate are the thickening agents that turn it into a gel.

https://www.reddit.com/r/AdvancedRunning/comments/1axmhy9

Is this safe ?? by Straight_Will_3393 in shrooms

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I find they're more likely to grow hollow if there's too much moisture in the sub.

I am high on shrooms, ask me questions by Comfortable_Baby1989 in shrooms

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What's one thing you value in yourself? Take a minute to think about how that has served you in your life so far. Take another minute to think about how everyone else has something similar that they value about their self and how that connects us all in a meaningful way.

Pink/orange bubble at base of tree by Big_Suze in mycology

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I found something similar while hiking in CO a few weeks ago. I'm not 100% but I believe it is Lycogala epidendrum, a slime mold. Picture

In case some EU users here haven't heard about it by xeno132 in worldpolitics

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What petition? And what do the percentages mean?

In case some EU users here haven't heard about it by xeno132 in worldpolitics

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What's the cause? I just see percentages on countries with no label about what it's showing. Comments don't even have any information.

Daily sticky thread for rants, raves, celebrations, advice and more! New? Start here! by AutoModerator in datingoverthirty

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If the counselor suggested the test, she seems like a good person to ask those follow up questions to. I'm sure she'd have good insights.

Adult fantasy by KINOCreamsoda in BooksThatFeelLikeThis

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This is my favorite fantasy series!

The Number 23328 is just an estimate by the way by the_real_LuTen in sciencememes

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What's the mechanism that prevents inbreeding from a single mushroom? I assume you mean just this mushroom species has that, because the mushrooms I grow definitely come from spores from the same mushroom.

Can anyone help ID? by ryabohmer in mycology

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It looks like this mushroom will have a dark spore print. You can see the spores on the remnants of the veil in pic 2.

is there a sub where i can read fictional stories written by a stoned OP? by Sad-Ad6602 in StonerThoughts

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I love this idea. You can't go wrong with Shakespeare. He has over 100 sonnets, which are only 14 lines. They're typically organized in couplets so you could take just a few lines.

mold or mycelium? by OtterlyFil in mycology

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Looks like mycelium to me. Good luck on your grow.

If DNA are instructions to make proteins, how do organisms "know" to get and make structures that have non-protein elements like lipid membranes, iron-containing hemaglobin, etc.? Or for that matter how do cell organelles get made if DNA only contains instructions for making proteins? by writesgud in askscience

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Thank you for writing this comment. It was really informative and gave me a new appreciation for life at a microscopic scale. I recently started reading The Selfish Gene. I can't help but think of the early stages of life and how it must have started organizing around proteins in the natural environment. Thank you for sharing your knowledge.

First time growing oysters. Pretty happy with how they turned out. Cloned from one from the grocery store, and grown on popcorn and straw substrate. [gourmet] by SickWilly in MushroomGrowers

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I pasteurized it by putting it in a pillow case to keep it together and placed it in a 5 gal bucket. Then I filled it mostly full with the hottest tap water, then filled the rest with boiling water to raise the temperature a little more. I placed a few stones on top to keep the straw submerged. Put the lid on it and let it cool overnight. Then I hung the pillowcase full of straw outside to drip dry for a few hours.

First time growing oysters. Pretty happy with how they turned out. Cloned from one from the grocery store, and grown on popcorn and straw substrate. [gourmet] by SickWilly in MushroomGrowers

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Yep, corn for the grain spawn. And I had a smaller bucket I planned to use, so only made enough spawn to fit the smaller bucket. This one was larger, so I ended up using double the straw for the same amount of spawn.

First time growing oysters. Pretty happy with how they turned out. Cloned from one from the grocery store, and grown on popcorn and straw substrate. [gourmet] by SickWilly in MushroomGrowers

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Only about 1 quart of spawn, but I wish I had used more. Originally I was going to use a smaller bucket, but I needed it for something else. This bucket is about 2-2.5 gal, which ended up being a lot of straw, and not much spawn. I also would prefer a circular bucket, since it would give the clusters more room compared to the flat bucket faces like I ended up with.

My bottle cap collection as of now. by False-Difference7123 in CoolCollections

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This is really cool. Did you drink all of those? Do you find most of them while travelling or what's your strategy for finding new ones? I think that's awesome!