Science is not for the impatient

So I spent most of my Yom Kippur afternoon at the doctor's, which was completely unnecessary. (I aten't dead.) On the bright side, I am about to leave for break-fast with derspatchel and I still love science:

One question never far from scientists' minds is how events might unfold were a giant slime mould to emerge in the Far East and embark on global domination . . . After a series of simple experiments involving agar, a globe, a bag of oats, and an obliging slime mould, an answer, of sorts, is now at hand.

I remember when slime mold modeled Tokyo's railways. I had no idea it felt so strongly about the Silk Road.

Happy new year!