Snails and broadband
We describe an experiment in which a Giant African Snail, acting as a data transfer agent, exceeded all known ?last-mile? communications technologies in terms of bit-per-second performance, adding to the many paradoxes of broadband communications modules.
So begins a report called "Sluggish Data Transport Is Faster Than ADSL," by Ami Ben-Bassat, Revital Ben-David-Zaslow, Shimon Schocken and Yossi Vardi. They build upon earlier work with pigeons. The report appears in the July/August issue of the Annals of Improbable Research.