50 Words for the 5th Kingdom
- April 7, 2022
- Bioluminescence
A tactile word-game of touch, intimacy, and fungus. A paper published in the Royal Society of Open Science suggests that mushrooms (or fungi) can generate up to 50 unique signals that are comparable to 'words' used for communication. This is a two-player game inspired by this finding, where you try to communicate words to your partner using only their sense of touch: Write down 25 words on scraps…