IT'S THE FUTURE - Wired magazine's top 10 new species discovered in 2010

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I love the eternal light mushroom! If there was a religion devoted to worshiping it, I would definitely appreciate that religion.

Underwater mushroom is great, too!
Respect the insane kingdom of fungi!

Are there really no mushrooms at all that grow under the sea, apart from this one?

Darwin's Bark Spider

assuming this is a typo cause it also appears as "black spider" but LOL "barking spiders" is an old euphemism for fart sounds

q: eww who did THAT

a: must be barking spiders

potential band names abound

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the first time i ever saw wired magazine was freshman year of college. my roommate had a couple of issues. this was pre-internet. i asked him what it was and i've never forgotten his answer: "it's like mondo 2000 for businessmen"

"The Darwin's bark spider exhibits a rich repertoire of sexual behaviors that include sexual cannibalism, binding the mate with silk, genital mutilation, plugging of female genitalia by the male, and self-emasculation. Non-typically, males engage in oral sexual encounters, rarely reported outside mammals. Irrespective of female's age or mating status males salivate onto female genitalia pre-, during, and post-copulation."

I had never associated spiders with oral sex, but you learn something every day. Sometimes the things you learn stick with you, even if you don't want to remember them.

I also discovered Wired in the 1990s. The first thing that struck me was that it had five pages of adverts before the magazine began. I remember during the dot.com crash it was hype-hype-hype-slightly subdued issue-hype-hype-hype as if nothing had happened, which was hilarious and sad at the same time. I often wonder if the newscaster AI in Deus Ex: Human Revolution was based on it, e.g. literate but with the mind of a child.

There was a chap who used to cycle across the United States with a laptop wired up to his bicycle. He was a digital nomad. Except that he filed all his copy from hotel rooms. I remember at the time wondering why he bothered. Obviously in 2022 if you cycle somewhere with a laptop in your bag that isn't news, but in 1993 it was way hot.