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#2Earlier this year, I found a big yellow blob in my garden with no idea what it was. It disappeared the next day (basically baked in the sun) then reappeared a few days later several yards away. The color in person was really striking! It turns out it is a Jasmine slime mold [0]. It has been creeping around my garden off and on ever since.
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#3This is really cool! Not at all the mental picture I had for "slime molds," even having heard of them before.
The little drawing/paintings(?) of them around 2 minutes in are also gorgeous. Really cool skill for a naturalist to be able to sketch/draw/paint what you find.
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#4This was delightful. Thank you for the reminder that a simple hobby driven by curiosity can be the source of so much joy.
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#5Observing nature is really fascinating, and it's everywhere - even in your fridge! Should you find something you can't identify try https://inaturalist.org/ which makes recording, sharing, discussing, identifying and correcting audio or still image media based observations easy and is of great utility to biologists tasked with understanding and environmentalists protecting our remnant biodiversity. Just be sure to mark cultivated specimens as 'casual'. Also a great lead-in for kids to many branches of science, structured thinking and (in the lead-up to Christmas) fun stuff like microscopy.
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#6Earlier this year, I found a big yellow blob in my garden with no idea what it was. It disappeared the next day (basically baked in the sun) then reappeared a few days later several yards away. The color in person was really striking! It turns out it is a Jasmine slime mold [0]. It has been creeping around my garden off and on ever since. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuligo_septica
There's a rare ascomycete fungus, Nectrioposis violacea, that parasitises Fuligo septica and turns it from yellow to blue in color. There seem to be various color morphs, one I found was a really spectacular deep violet-blue. The ecology of these specialized fungal parasites whose hosts are themselves rare or very patchily distributed really fascinates me.
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#7Related:
The Beauty and Diversity of Slime Molds - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34890433 - Feb 2023 (1 comment)
Scientists create living smartwatch powered by slime mold - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33976876 - Dec 2022 (3 comments)
Coordination Headwind: How organizations are like slime molds - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31727144 - June 2022 (10 comments)
Slime molds’ complex ability to detect mass from a distance - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29114686 - Nov 2021 (42 comments)
The 'blob': zoo showcases slime mold with 720 sexes that can heal itself (2019) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27617789 - June 2021 (2 comments)
Simulating Slime Mold - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26694857 - April 2021 (1 comment)
Show HN: Play with Shaders Inspired by Slime Mold - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26619871 - March 2021 (23 comments)
A single cell slime mold makes decisions without a central nervous system - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26285926 - Feb 2021 (76 comments)
How the humble slime mold helped physicists map the cosmic web - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25602327 - Jan 2021 (1 comment)
In slime molds, evolution selects 'loners' who refrain from collective behavior - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22727215 - March 2020 (33 comments)
Evolution selects for 'loners' in slime molds - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22658691 - March 2020 (10 comments)
Slime molds remember, but do they learn? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17491547 - July 2018 (11 comments)
Slime Molds solve the travelling salesman problem - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4304427 - July 2012 (3 comments)
Slime Molds- single cell organism solves shortest path algorithm - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4303169 - July 2012 (1 comment)
Using A Slime-Mold To Calculate Minimum Spanning Trees - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3970427 - May 2012 (20 comments)
Slime mold grows network just like Tokyo rail system - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1072876 - Jan 2010 (21 comments)
Communication networks inspired by slime mould - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1071093 - Jan 2010 (1 comment)
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#8Ze Frank is the healthiest thing I've discovered on the internet for a while (when you need to laugh), see related video on Slime Molds: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OltvGZUvpvw
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#9Ze Frank is the healthiest thing I've discovered on the internet for a while (when you need to laugh), see related video on Slime Molds: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OltvGZUvpvw [edit- spelling]
ze frank has been one of my favorite things on the internet since before youtube :)
what's your power move?
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#10humans are not much different from slime mold,,,actually all live is just evolved version/part of gigantic slime mold. humanity might take wrong turns or die out,,,but it the end it does not matter,,,live/slime mold will go on