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Different Species, Same Network

Birch and Douglas-fir share the same fungal infrastructure despite being different species. The carbon flows between them like load balancing, not charity.

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A Marketplace - Not a Charity, The Reality of Nature

The wood wide web story got away from the science. Forests have cooperation and competition. Fungi are economic actors. Kin effects are real but small. Here's what the data actually says.

Science4 min readMar 27, 2026

The Network That Predates Trees

Mycorrhizal symbiosis is 400 million years old. It may have helped plants colonize land in the first place. Humans built something similar in about 50 years.

Science4 min readMar 27, 2026

Is a Forest Smart? It Depends What You Mean by Smart.

Forests sense, adapt, and produce coordinated behavior without a central brain. That's not consciousness. But it might be a form of distributed computation worth taking seriously.

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Science Caught Up to Something Many Cultures Already Knew

Western ecology is excited about forest networks. Many Indigenous knowledge systems never needed the metaphor. They've been describing relational ecology for a long time.

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Climate Change Has a Target Underground

Mycorrhizal networks are infrastructure. Climate change is stressing them in four distinct ways. The consequences reach all the way to how forests store carbon.

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Someone Is Building Computers out of Mushrooms

Researchers are using living fungal networks as sensing and computing substrates. They've already steered robots with mycelium. Here's what the frontier actually looks like.

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Where the Wood Wide Web Analogy Holds and Where It Falls Apart

The forest-as-internet comparison is useful and overused. Here's a precise breakdown of which parts are accurate, which are misleading, and what the comparison actually adds.