Beth

Our second female forager, Emily Smith, moved to rural Japan to work on a project cataloguing and collecting wild mushrooms.

With around 5,000 varieties, 300 of which are edible, mushrooms are an important part of traditional Japanese cooking.

But with names like death cap and a reputation for being poisonous, mushrooms are what many wild foragers worry about the most.

Emily discussed these worries with BBC World Service programme The Conversation.

The main thing is to exercise caution, to act with care and attention so as to avoid possible dangers.

In other words, to be careful.

Ah, I asked you, what colour are death cap mushrooms?

You said red, which I also thought was the answer, but actually they are white.

Right, it's time to recap the vocabulary we've learnt about foraging, starting with horticulturalist, a person who studies or grows plants.

Scanning involves searching a wide area with your eyes to find some particular thing.

That's interesting because when Meta does open source, right, they do open source because their model comes from, their money model, their revenue model comes from Facebook and the other things that they own for ads and that kind of stuff.

But NVIDIA's open source sounds actually kind of really interesting because

because it's also not associated with their revenue, but it is much closer to their vision in terms of revenue rather than just getting all the eyeballs and selling people the things, you know?

Yeah.

I have a story that was highlighted in Science earlier this month.

It is a new artificial nose that can detect certain smells for people who don't have a really strong sense of smell.

And my older sister...

It is one of those people.

She cannot detect the scent of like a leaking gas stove and those kinds of things.

And that has been a real thing that has made her concerned in her life.