The Mushroom Hunters: Neil Gaiman’s Feminist Poem About Science
26/04/2017
The Mushroom Hunters
An ode to humanity’s unheralded originators of the scientific method, read by Amanda Palmer @ Pioneer Works
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The women, who did not need to run down prey,
had brains that spotted landmarks and made paths between them
left at the thorn bush and across the scree
and look down in the bole of the half-fallen tree,
because sometimes there are mushrooms.
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