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Heather Barnett's Blog – September 2009 Archive (1)

50 Physarum pets given out at the British Science Festival, 5/6 Sept 2009

For the past two days I've been talking to a wide variety of people about the wonderful attributes of physarum polycephalum; their beautiful growth patterns, my experiments, their attributed intelligence and suggested memory and primitive pulse.



Over 50 people (young and old, but mostly young) took home their own pet slime mould: they each made a felt design in a petri dish, decorated it with oats and oat paste, and lastly inoculated it with slime mould. In the days to come the slime… Continue

Added by Heather Barnett on September 6, 2009 at 22:30 — No Comments

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