Delicious.com - Discover Yourself! Kongregate: Play free games online. Google. YouTube - Broadcast Yourself. Welcome to Facebook - Log In, Sign Up or Learn More. 238907] | You Don't Say? 230934] | You Don't Say? 230932] | You Don't Say? 210130] | You Don't Say? 237331] | Are You Serious Face / Seriously? Vi Hart: Blog. Page 5. When you think of mold you probably don’t associate it with intelligence, but some molds can work in pretty complex ways. Professor John Tyler Bonner, who has spent a lifetime studying slime molds, says that he's seen the mold act with behavior similar to animals, as if they have “simple brains.”
It’s no secret that Mother Nature often creates things so complex that we can only marvel at them. Humans get some of our best technologies by studying the way nature has done things, such as creating transportation systems. Millions of years of evolution have gone into developing these systems, from our own nervous systems to ant colonies. Atsushi Tero of Hokkaido University used the slime mold Physarum polycephalum to do this. This whole experiment was done in a dish about 20cm or 7.8 inches in diameter.
It’s amazing how a simple mold can be so efficient. Score one for Mother Nature. (Source) Set up your profile.