I collect spores, molds, and fungus

[sovay]

There's a documentary about slime mold! The Creeping Garden (2014), by Tim Grabham and Jasper Sharp. It screened two years ago at the Brattle and I missed it. I didn't even know. It's plasmodial slime molds, not cellular, but that's okay. I'll still watch it. Fortunately, there appears to be a Blu-Ray/DVD. I'm so happy. It had better include the time a slime mold modeled the railway system of Tokyo.

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[tree_and_leaf]

But why do slime moulds shun Carlisle?

[kore]

1) T will love this! 2) I will have to leave the room (holy jet engine nightmare fuel Batman)

[kore]

Also dude, did you see this? https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/28/world/europe/rome-skeletons-jewish-cemetery.html

[sovay]

But why do slime moulds shun Carlisle?

Clearly they need an outreach program.

[sovay]

(holy jet engine nightmare fuel Batman)

Well, I'm glad to have turned up something that will make T happy!

What makes slime mold nightmare fuel for you?

[sovay]

Also dude, did you see this?

No! That's really cool.

"The excavation was documented and the skeletons will be entrusted to Rome's Jewish community, which will 'bury them in more correct form or, say, manner,' Mr. Procaccia said."

[kore]

It's just such a visceral OH GOD NO NO NO ACK reaction I'm not sure I could even really verbalize it. Slime! Mold! MOVING slime mold! WTF!

[sovay]

Slime! Mold! MOVING slime mold! WTF!

Fair enough! It is something that is so much not nightmare fuel for me that it didn't occur to me that posting about it would bother people.

[kore]

Aww, I wasn't truly bothered or anything, I mean it's not like you included a picture.

[genarti]

Oooooh. Definitely going to have to keep an eye out for this one!

[genarti]

Oooh. That's fascinating!

[sovay]

Oooooh. Definitely going to have to keep an eye out for this one!

I really feel the sci-fi film marathon should screen it even if it isn't technically fiction. Please let me know if you hear of it making a return engagement!

[sovay]

I mean it's not like you included a picture.

If I kept a Tumblr, it would definitely include pictures of slime mold.

[kore]

//BURSTS into tears

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

I remember about the slime mold modeling the railway system of Tokyo. It's a great world.

[sovay]

I remember about the slime mold modeling the railway system of Tokyo. It's a great world.

This is one of the reasons I feel very strongly about people not fucking it up! Save the world for slime mold. Maybe I'll carry a sign to that effect at the March for Science.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

Are you going to Washington, or is there a sister march in Boston?

[sovay]

Are you going to Washington, or is there a sister march in Boston?

There's a sister march in Boston. We talked about going to D.C., but at the moment it's easier for my father not to travel that far, so luckily the scientists of Boston are on the case.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

That's great that your father will be joining you ... I can't venture more, because when I start to make remarks about the generations coming together and the fate of the world .... it's more emotion than I want to cope with just this moment.

[rydra_wong]

I just saw the documentary and wish to mention (in case you have not yet seen it) that it includes the phrase "coax it with an oat" (used by an artist of her slime molds).

[sovay]

it includes the phrase "coax it with an oat" (used by an artist of her slime molds).

Hooray.

(I have not yet and I appreciate the heads-up!)

[rydra_wong]

It has far fewer slime mold facts than I personally would like, but considerable charm.