Peter Bernhardt

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140 appearances 3 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 21 Aug

Peter Bernhardt’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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The Science Show · Looking inside cells, and how seals hear so well underwater · 31 Jul 2026 podcast

In fact, Wikipedia now references it as the Leon Goffa mushroom murders.

So now it's my turn to ask you...

What have you been doing since the judge handed down his sentence in September 2025?

When you take bushwalks during wet, cool seasons, do you stare at some large toadstool and wonder, does that belong to the same species that killed three people?

I have a remedy for your morbid curiosity.

Consider reading Mushroom Day, a story of 24 hours and 24 fungal lives by Alison Puglio.

It's a short but friendly introduction to diversity in the kingdom fungi.

Think of it as a modern book of hours, and each hour-slash-chapter addresses a different species.

Midnight is represented by a blackish discomycete.

Noon is an orange lichen.

5 p.m.

is Australia's own anemone stinkhorn.

Nine of these hours discuss species found living in Australia and New Zealand.

The author happily contrasts geographies comparing species found worldwide, like the honey fungus, which has glowing underground foraging tissues, to that of the same orange lichen known from only 12 locations in the Canadian Arctic.

Each species is accompanied by its portrait in pen and ink, making the outgrowths wearing slime heads on the stalks of the branched Shanklet Mushroom, 2 p.m., quite intriguing.

Trust me, this book is a lot more fun than looking up recipes for Beef Wellington.

However, food must play a big part in this book as those foraging tissues, mycelia, of different fungi are always digesting something during their periods of active growth, although different fungi are on very different diets.

At 10 a.m., the lawyer's wig or shaggy mane sends out its threads to hunt down, kill, and consume nematode worms for their nitrogen.

At 8 p.m., the horned stalk ball scavenges on the remaining hooves and horns of deceased farm animals.

The author is happy to reverse the process.

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