BRAINY Blob
I’ve been flirting with the idea of making an AMOEBA CARD for the Green Wisdom Deck. This early creature is what biologists call a “proto-animal,” and somehow I felt intuitively important to include it. As synchronicity would have it, I open the NY Times “Science” section today and there’s a headline that says, “Slime Mold Proves To Be a Brainy Blob.” Let’s hear it for the amoeba!
The first paragraph of the article is all you need to know. “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.”
Oh, our human arrogance.
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