“What Slime Knows” is an essay by Lacy M. Johnson, in Orion magazine: Here in this little patch of mulch in my yard is a creature that begins life as a microscopic amoeba and ends it as a vibrant splotch that produces spores, and for all the time in between, it is a single cell […]
Audrey Dussutour is speaking about the blob: Blobs on the Mind Lots of other people are speaking about the blob, too—about the blob and intelligence. The blob is also known as “slime mold.” Intelligence is known to make people curious. Lots of this talking was inspired by the work of Toshiyuki Nakagaki and his colleagues, […]
Behold the slime mold known (to its human friends) as “Andi.” Andi’s friends arranged for Andi’s slinky movements to be set to bongo music. This is explained, all too briefly, on Medium. [vimeo]275415501[/vimeo]
Le Monde celebrates the work of two-time Ig Nobel Prize winner Toshi Nakagaki [here auto-translated from French to English]. The report begins: When ‘the blob’ develops according to the Tokyo rail network In the small community of blob enthusiasts, Toshiyuki Nakagaki is a reference. But his fame goes far beyond that. His work on the […]