In what is nothing less than a catastrophic loss for the Cornell community, scientists at the University's labs have agreed to return 1,700 species of mushrooms to China, "including 57 considered irreplaceable."The article gives a nice cover story about how we're returning the mushrooms as a gesture of goodwill and how the guy who gave those mushrooms to Cornell did so because he was afraid that they would be destroyed during World War II and then he was prosecuted during the Cultural Revolution in China and a lot of other stuff that is awesome and tragic and kind of a rah-rah banner of academia in some incredibly random way.
But if you ask me, we're just returning the mushrooms because they are dangerous, dangerous things.
Just look at the guys in charge of the 'shroom department at Cornell. Like Tony Montana, they've clearly been dabbling in the merchandise. And they want you to try some!
Go ahead, join us down the rabbit hole. Do it and let's go watch some Cirque du Soleil.
(Tries to eat own fist).
This is too many chairs for one room.
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