If a tree falls will the mushrooms be edible?

If a tree falls in a forest, and nobody is around to hear it fall, does it make a sound?  

So that’s the question asked in the NY Times (Blogs Falling In an Empty Forest).

It seems from this survey that 90.7% of folks who think about these things said yes. So with that inspiration, I felt I could move forward with this blog.

Other deep philosophical questions like the sound of one hand clapping or timing the bottom of the Manhattan real estate market will be answered  in due course.