Nicholas P. Money is a gentleman of letters, mycologist, and professor at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. He is the author of popular science books that celebrate the diversity of the microbial world. His exploration of the timelines of biology, Nature Fast and Nature Slow: How Life Works, from Fractions of a Second to Billions of Years, was published in 2021 and a new book on the effects of fungi on human health will be published early in 2024. What larks, Pip.
Sing heavenly Muse . . .
What in
them is dark
Illumine, what is low raise and support;
That to the height of this great argument
I may assert eternal providence,
And justify the ways of
mushrooms to men.
—John Milton,
Paradise Lost (1667), Book I, lines 6, 22-26,
amended