Archive of Author | Nik Money

Nicholas P. Money (Nik Money) is a gentleman of letters, mycologist, and professor at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. In his research at Miami, he has pioneered the use of high-speed video microscopy to understand the explosive mechanisms used by fungi to launch their spores into the air.

He is the author of popular science books that celebrate the diversity of the microbial world. His latest book, Nature Fast and Nature Slow: How Life Works, from Fractions of a Second to Billions of Years.

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Articles with Nik Money


The Jellyfish Who Lost Hope

Nicholas P. Money (Nik 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 latest book, ‘Molds, Mushrooms, and Medicines’, reveals our dependence on the fungi from the billions of yeasts in the gut microbiome, or mycobiome, to the mushroom colonies that support plants and spin the carbon cycle.

On ‘Nature Fast and Nature Slow’

Nicholas P. Money (Nik 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 latest book, ‘Nature Fast and Nature Slow: How Life Works, from Fractions of a Second to Billions of Years’, is a vision of biology set within the entire timescale of the universe. It is about the timing of life, from microsecond movements to evolutionary changes over millions of years.