June 2011
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Bill Maher And Jane Lynch Give A Dramatic Reading Of Anthony Weiner’s Sexts
Ride the Slime Mold Express.
If you want to design a railway system, you could do worse than hire a slime mold. Researchers have shown that, when grown on a map of Japan, the gelatinous, funguslike organism connects points of interest in a pattern similar to Tokyo’s train network. Engineers might be able to take a cue from the organism’s approach to design more-efficient transportation systems.