Okay...  On the morning of Tuesday, October 5th, I discovered two vile, disgusting objects on the grass in my neighborhood.  My initial thought was that they were animal in origin.  I thought they looked like some sort of organ or even eyeballs (LOL... I know, I know).  I posted pics in my journal and my friends suggested it was from some sort of ( Read more... )

Slime Mold Proves to Be a Brainy Blob

Researchers in Japan have shown that a slime mold can design a network that is as efficient as one developed by humans over many years: the Tokyo rail system. Furthermore, the slime mold can build its network in a day.

The abstract of the experiment is this:

Transport networks are ubiquitous in both ( Read more... )

Lemme present you one of the sluggiest mushrooms: Limacella illinata.
After the rain, fresh caps look like this:


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