April 2012
68 posts
There's no such thing today: Intelligent Slime... →
nosuchthingtoday:
Single-celled slime molds demonstrate the ability to memorize and anticipate repeated events, a team of Japanese researchers reported in January. The study [pdf] clearly shows “a primitive version of brain function” in an organism with no brain at all.
In their experiment,…
“If only you could sense how important you are to the lives of those you meet;...”
– Fred Rogers (via julie911)
“We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant...”
– William Ralph Inge, Outspoken Essays, 1922 (via vegantruth)
