People are crowded around tables, playing cards, Connect 4, Othello, and other games taken from a nearby communal shelf. One wall is decorated with Egyptian hieroglyphics, another with a span of Polaroids.
Ornamented with hundreds of graphic novels, daily comic editions, and more, the shop makes use of every corner and inch of space. Titles such as “Asterix,” Alan Moore’s “Watchmen,” and daily strip collections “The Phantom” line the walls. Each section of The Million Year Picnic is brimming with life.
Michael M. Desai, Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology and of Physics, hopes to leverage the common fungus to answer an age-old question: How did we come to be?
As attendees of Internet and Technology Addicts Anonymous take turns telling their personal journeys, I’m struck by how much we have in common.