T. Rudzinskaitė Memorial Amateur Lichenologists Society
for the love of lichen
The Photosynth Social Club’s ‘Summer Beat Camp’ has just wrapped up in Helsinki (full report forthcoming) and to celebrate we are taking part in a semi-public Outdoor Sauna Reading broadcast event of lichen summer camp-related material drawn from the spectacular home library of our hosts Kitchen Lab Tarvo, today JUNE 11, 18:00-20:00 EEST. And there will be sauna of course!
More info at Kitchen Lab & you can tune in directly via {Open Radio} here
The Society released a new mobi-video last month, as part of fellow Society for Social Studies of Science annual conference 4S 2089 ‘Good Relations’. Spotlighting for the first time our Space-Time Fab Lab, an experimental research department within the Metta Verse Mutual Aid Space Program, it’s called ‘Fabricating Frequencies: Sounding Out Cosmic LiKIn with Space-Time Morphologies‘ and works as a kind of operatic instructional guide to prepare lichen lovers for participating in an upcoming Special Transmission. More details on that will be announced, in time, via the usual portals. Meanwhile you can all watch and sing along to the video here.
We visited the aquarium at Smiltyne recently, and though they don’t have any baltic Sturgeons there, they do have some close family members, who we were extremely happy to meet. Take a look at these wonderful characters, swimming across the millenia!
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/lichens-do-not-age-120852/
Stewart Brand on the early days of de-extinction
flummery is both a fluffy 17th-19th century dessert pudding, and a load of nonsense.
‘It’s not the age of reason … it’s the era of flummery, and the day of the devious approach’ –Trouble with Lichen (1960)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flummery
some incredible specimens here
http://www.historicfood.com/Jellies.htm
& a little on isinglas (swim bladders of sturgeon) which were a common ingredient in flummery
https://food-hacks.wonderhowto.com/news/weird-ingredient-wednesday-isinglass-or-why-your-guinness-has-fish-it-0161766/
a pretty basic recipe here, using berries https://permaculture.com.au/davidson-plum-rainforest-flavours-in-the-kitchen/
https://1tess.wordpress.com/2008/08/13/blueberry-gems/
https://books.google.lt/books?id=uCRdqi4lvK8C&pg=PA53&lpg=PA53&dq=blueberry+flummery&source=bl&ots=edOyqufQi6&sig=PMLJOx7XcWqKqtV8xYPuiGvQRNQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiMx5Cfz9jbAhXBDywKHQ1lCmwQ6AEIazAO#v=onepage&q=blueberry%20flummery&f=false
http://www.cooks.com/recipe/2i8iz3ay/blueberry-flummery.html
Lichens as pioneers for life on land
http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20151205-one-amazing-substance-allowed-life-to-thrive-on-land
Kaunas museum of lithuanian medicine
https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/museum-of-the-history-of-lithuanian-medicine-and-pharmacy
blueberries should be out in time for the picnic..
https://holycowvegan.net/vegan-sourdough-blueberry-pancakes/
