Science is not for the impatient

[sovay]

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!

Comments

[sovay]

If 'Across the Taklamakan by Slime Mould' doesn't turn up within a year, someone should probably grow it.

Agreed. I won't bet against my falling on that sword, sandy and spore-powdered as it may be.

I wonder if there's a way to get them to reproduce the Pacific trading routes. Slime moulds on little barges may not work.

Perhaps not, but it is so adorable an image that I would like to believe it can exist.

I am not writing the poem where Loki reviews journal articles.

Oh . . .

[selidor]

Oh . . .

*snorfle* Which probably guarantees it'll now turn up while I'm on the aircraft.