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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 ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
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!
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!
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Slime molds--the first transit planners. Planning roadways from before there were horses, let alone carts and wheels.
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They have an entire book on it!
(It is glossed on the website as "World Motorways According to Slime." I don't know where I'd scrape together the money, but I'd be even more tempted if that were the actual title.)
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Maybe the paperback will be cheaper? Write to them and ask?
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