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    Avatar photoAndrew Beasley
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    NatGeo have released a YouTube short on the biology of Lichen.

    What’s in a Lichen? How Scientists Got It Wrong for 150 Years

    Needs to be a bit longer to give more background and more details rather than ‘cute’ drone shots (both issues I have with the ‘TikTok’  style infotainment genre) but it does settle the litch-en vs like-en question 🙂 and the cute drone shots give some wonderful scenery to gawp at.

     

    #171871
    Avatar photoirishserb
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    Have to agree with everything you said.  I found it quite interesting, was just settling into it, and it ended.   Very cool though, thanks for sharing it.

     

    #171874
    Avatar photoTony S
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    I too would have enjoyed a lot more details on how the three species interact.  Very interesting though.

    I’ve always heard, and pronounced it as “like-en”.  Wasn’t aware of any alternative way!

    As an aside, I’m planning a day’s hike tomorrow in terrain like that.  Guess I’ll have to keep an eye out for the lichens that are everywhere!

    #171878
    Avatar photoian pillay
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    That is a great video. Amazing that science is still asking questions and finding answers, but also that errors of reasoning can be challenged and disproved 150 years on from the first discovery.

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    #171897
    Avatar photoAndrew Beasley
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    ?..I’m planning a day’s hike tomorrow in terrain like that…

    I may make it to the local country park if lucky – so green with envy now!!!

     

    #171898
    Avatar photoOotKust
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    Hi guys,

    Well to me it’s obviously a promo, not the ‘Short Film’ referenced. I think.

    A bit like ‘NatGeo’ I think what the fork? Meaningless claptrap is destroying knowledge and intellect. I agree.

    Good to see the results, but even more that the lichen on our little islands that haven’t been connected to the Rest-of-World since Gondwana Land, are identical in mode and form.

    Hell I still have the lichen I went tramping to collect for modelling in the Southern Alps, 200+ miles from my then home in Christchurch back in the late ’70s!

    cheers dave

    #171909
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    I remember ‘studying’ lichens when I was at school, getting on for 50 years ago.  Living in a Pennine mill-town, it was interesting to see lichens re-colonising areas that pollution had cleared them from.  We were taught the two component theory too.

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