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By LAUREN MURPHY
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The fungus among us
The world’s largest animal
is a blue whale, but the largest
living organism on earth is a
mushroom. That’s
right, the little
things that go on
pizza. Oregon
is home to
the world’s
largest living
thing, a hon-
ey mushroom, or shoe-
string fungus. It’s grown to
cover 2.4 miles and stretch-
es across the Blue Moun-
tains in Oregon. This partic-
ular fungus is large enough
to fi ll over 200 semi trucks.
This fungus isn’t like other
fungus though. Most trees have
a mutual symbiotic relation-
room benefi t by the mushroom
growing on/around the tree.
Mushrooms are a decompos-
er, meaning they
eat dead things.
Mushrooms will
eat the dead and
rotting bark from
the tree so that it
can be healthy.
This helps both
the tree and the mushroom.
Another type of symbiotic
relationship is called, parasitism.
This is where one species (the
honey mushroom) benefi ts
and the other (the tree) suff ers.
Another example of this would
be fl eas on a dog.
The honey mushroom is a
parasite. This particular fungus
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healthy bark too. It can take to tree? It’s actually a really
anywhere from 20 to 50 years cool process. The mushroom
will change form, yet again,
for a tree to die.
One of the things that’s so to go underground. It’ll send
cool about this fungus is its black, shoestring like, fi bers
ability to change form. Picture underground and attack the
your traditional fungi, the little trees roots.
If you were to scoop it all up
white cap and stem. It only
looks like that for about one and pile it together scientists
week in the fall. The majority of estimate that Oregon’s honey
the time it looks like a white fi lm mushroomcould weigh at least
7,500 tons, (that’s like 50 blue
that spreads across trees.
How does it move from tree whales!).
It might look cool, but vaping is dangerous
By ERIC A. HOWALD
Of No Adults Allowed
You may already think that
kids are cooler than adults, but
there’s
actual
science to back
it up.
Right
now,
your brain is still
growing.
That
means
every
time you learn
something new
in school, or at home, or with
your friends it’s like a new
bridge is built inside your
brain. The bridges are called
synapses and they connect
one piece of information
to others already there.
(After a certain age
this
will stop happening making
you infi ntely cooler than
adults). It will keep happening
until you are about 25 years
old, and that’s
why you need to
be making good
choices now.
One of the
things that can
get in the way
of your brain
developing new
bridges is smoking of any kind
– and that include e-cigarettes,
vaping and juuling.
It’s been known for a long
time that products containing
nicotine
(the
primary
ingredient in cigarettes) is bad
for your health. It can cause
cancer and other breathing-
related diseases. But,
even e-cigarettes
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and vaping products without
nicotine can be bad for you.
The fl avoring in some vaping
products can lead to serious
breathing
issues,
others
ingredients are as bad for you
as the stuff found in car exhaust,
and even more ingredients can
build up in your body over
time and lead to other health
problems. The process by
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which the fl uids are turned into
a vapor also creates additional
problems for smokers and non-
smokers who inhale the vapor.
Because these products
are still relatively new, even
scientists don’t know all the
potential problems they can
cause.
Companies who produce
vaping products are also good
at getting your attention.
Because they don’t have to play
by the same rules as cigarette
companies, they use colors
and fl avors to attract younger
people – people like you. You’ve
got to be smarter than that.
So listen, you only get one
brain in a lifetime. Keep yours
safe by making good choices
now and always, especially
when it comes to smoking and
vaping.
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