[12th_Monkey]

Scientific breakthrough! A use has been found for liberal democrats

[smoothsailing]

Alan Grayson insists he is not ‘a piece of nose slime’

[Starstruck]

I added a hard drive to my computer the other day. When I took off the panel, it appears the computer itself has decided to become cutting edge.

[Buckeye McFrog]

I used to have an Acer laptop. Computers that are built out of slime have already been invented. Trust me on that one.

[martin_fierro]

Computer scientist Andrew Adamatzky utilizes slime mold’s ability to build its own, efficient nutrient transport network, to crack mathematical problems.

In his latest study, co-authored with Ramon Alonso-Sanz from the Polytechnic University Madrid, the mold (Physarum polycephalum) constructs an optimal transport system between oatflakes stacked on an agar plate, layed out as a map of cities in Spain and Portugal.

The research paper compares this living network with the road network built by the Romans 2,000 years ago. Remarkably, out of eleven major man-made routes, the slime mold recreated seven.

[dfwgator]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWA-TXJmeQo