Toshiyuki Nakagaki [pictured here], who has been awarded two Ig Nobel Prizes for studying the apparently intelligent behavior of slime mold, has (with colleagues) published a new study of apparently intelligent behavior in a very different creature: “Attempts to retreat from a dead-ended long capillary by backward swimming in Paramecium,” Itsuki Kunita, Shigeru Kuroda, Kaito Ohki and Toshiyuki Nakagaki, […]
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The mystery of Sonneborn’s weird paramecia
[This is a repost, with added imagery and links, from a post in 2000, which was itself a reprint from the magazine. Thus do things propagate….] Sonneborn and the Persistently Shapely Paramecia A new look at forgotten or overlooked science by Marc Abrahams EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the beginning of a new, not necessarily humorous, […]