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YouTube video by Mycological Association of Washington DC MAW Aug 2025 Meeting - Tricks to Prevent Yourself From Getting Tick Bites

The third segment of our August meeting, while not specifically about fungi, was on a subject that concerns anyone out in the woods: ticks. Enjoy a fabulous presentation by Emily Struckhoff, a program specialist at Penn State Extension — youtu.be/faLVe8zlfsI?... #ticks #mushrooms #fungi

A group of people in a room look at fungi on tables.

A group of several dozen people pose for a photograph in a field.

A brown-capped mushroom being tested with a chemical.

Mushrooms against a field of moss.

It's time for Sequanota, our multi-day mycological extravaganza filled with forays, talks by Cathie Aime and Bill Yule, a night walk, cooking, and more! Lodging and meal options are available. Join us August 28 through September 1 — mawdc.org/event-5924453 #mycology #mushrooms #fungi

The word August is superimposed on colorful photographs of mushrooms.

Join us for our August meeting (open to all, online!) Tues 8/5, 7 pm — our featured speaker, Conrad Schoch of the National Center for Biotechnology Information will talk on Demystifying DNA Sequences: A guide to the National Center of Biotechnology Information (NCBI) system! mawdc.org/event-6273495

Morton Feldman. Intersection +, 1953

Join us this Tuesday for our monthly meeting, with a talk by noted mycologist Bill Yule on "Saprobe Superpowers"! We'll also have a virtual ID table and more — July 1, 7 pm, online via Zoom — everyone is welcome! www.mawdc.org/event-6238165 #mycology #mushrooms #fungi

A collage of five photographs featuring fungi, with the word June overlaid in the center.

Slime mold alert! Join us Tuesday, June 3, 7 pm, online, for our monthly meeting (open to all), featuring two talks on slime molds by Valerie Chen and Serenella Linares, plus a virtual ID table, culinary news and more! mawdc.org/event-6198714 #mawdc

This is a view from the surface of Comet 67P.

The busy particles in the foreground are cosmic rays or bits of dust and ice.

The dots moving in the background are stars.

This is a view looking down on a portion of Saturn's rings.

Find the white structures along the edge of the ring, near the top.

Now look at their shadows, cast on the rings themselves just below them.

Those white structures are giant towers of icy ring particles, some rising more than 2 km.

Such a shock that we've lost this beautiful person, so full of vitality. RIP Julia.

Julia Alexander did so much for the Baltimore arts community and the Walters, always with extraordinary generosity and enthusiasm. #juliaalexander

Celebrating Charles Ives at 150 — Joel Sachs, pianist Pianist Joel Sachs performs masterworks by Charles Ives, one of America’s greatest composers and one of the greatest modernists of the early 20th century. His rarely heard Piano Sonata No. 1 will be p...

Join us as pianist Joel Sachs celebrates Charles Ives at 150! He'll perform the First Piano Sonata along with The Alcotts and Thoreau — Wed 4/23, 7:30pm, Linehan Concert Hall at UMBC. umbc.edu/event/celebr... #umbc

How Maryland Hit Its 30x30 Goal (Gift Article) Nine states have set goals to conserve 30 percent of their land by 2030. Maryland got there first.

Maryland protected nearly a third of its land, and it’s reaching for more —

Ruckus The Department of Music presents RUCKUS, the contemporary music ensemble in residence at UMBC. With a mission to champion new and innovative works, RUCKUS is dedicated to supporting innovative artists...

RUCKUS, the contemporary music ensemble in residence at UMBC, performs works by Pierre Boulez, Julius Eastman, Salina Fisher, Alexandra Gardner, Elainie Lillios, Emma O'Halloran, and Vicki Ray! Friday, April 18, 4:30 p.m. in Linehan Concert Hall — umbc.edu/event/ruckus/ #umbc

Hunting the Wild Mushrooms of New York City (Gift Article) There are thousands of species of fungus in the city, with names like American dyeball, dingy twiglet and devil’s dipstick. Some even glow in the dark.

In The New York Times — Hunting the Wild Mushrooms of New York City — www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/n...

The composer still making music four years after his death – thanks to an artificial brain In Australia, a team of artists and scientists have resurrected the US composer Alvin Lucier. It raises a storm of questions about AI and authorship – and it’s also incredibly beautiful

Alvin Lucier is still writing music, four years after his death, thanks to an organoid mini-brain grown from his stem cells — #newmusic #lucier

Pierre Boulez at 100: What Is His Legacy Today? (Gift Article) The legacy of this composer and conductor may not be in his rarely performed works, but in how we think about music itself.

Reflections on Boulez at 100 from The New York Times — www.nytimes.com/2025/04/08/a...

Martha Argerich, the Elusive, Enigmatic ‘Goddess’ of the Piano (Gift Article) At 83, the Argentine-Swiss pianist is at the peak of her powers. But she doesn’t want to talk about it.

"Martha Argerich, the Elusive, Enigmatic ‘Goddess’ of the Piano — At 83, the Argentine-Swiss pianist is at the peak of her powers" — Javier C. Hernández in the NY Times www.nytimes.com/2025/04/01/a...

Kathan Brown, Acclaimed Fine Art Printmaker, Dies at 89 (Gift Article) She helped revive the centuries-old tradition of intaglio printing in the U.S., producing fine-art etchings with artists like Chuck Close and Sol LeWitt.

In The New York Times, a lovely tribute to Kathan Brown of Crown Point Press, who passed away on March 10 — www.nytimes.com/2025/04/01/a...

YouTube video by Chronochromie Yvonne Loriod — Trois pièces pour deux pianos préparés (1951)

Yvonne compositrice 🤩

www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXeK...

Barbara Hannigan - Ligeti and Stravinsky - Watch the full programme | ARTE Concert Barbara Hannigan conducts the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France performing works by György Ligeti and Igor Stravinski.

Barbara Hannigan conducts the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France in works by Ligeti and Stravinsky (free video) www.arte.tv/en/videos/11...

Steve Reich has always been able to hear the pulse The 88-year-old composer, who talks as fast as the interlocking phrases of his music, looks back on crucial moments in a career that moved minimalism into the mainstream.

Steve Reich interview with Tom Huizenga for NPR — www.npr.org/2025/03/14/n...

The Transformer: Twyla Tharp Dives Into the Future (Gift Article) Tharp celebrates her 60th anniversary as a dance maker with a program pairing the monumental “Diabelli” (1998) and the new “Slacktide.”

"The Transformer: Twyla Tharp Dives Into the Future" in The NY Times — www.nytimes.com/2025/03/11/a...

Join us for the INTERFERENCE: New Music Collective! William Brent and Nancy Jo Snider partner with artist/dancer Miřenka Čechová for works of their own and Steve Antosca's MA. Wednesday, March 12, 7:30 pm, Linehan Concert Hall at UMBC. umbc.edu/event/interf... #umbc

Today at 3 pm, join us for a concert by renowned percussionist Aiyun Huang, with video and live electronics! Sunday, March 9, Linehan Concert Hall — umbc.edu/event/aiyun-... #umbc

Headshots of three people in vertically stacked images. The top is an evocative one with a face surrounded by orbs. The second is a person with a light skin done and dark hair against a beige background. The bottom one is a black and white image of a person with a flute in front of their left eye.

Still looking for that perfect Valentine's Day outing? We've got just the thing at UMBC tonight — a flute trio new music concert, “Pareidolia Memories: Imagined faces in noises of sounds remembered”! Friday 2/14, 7:30 p.m., Linehan Concert Hall — umbc.edu/event/pareid... #umbc

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