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This 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.

Caught my eye too. I'm pretty sure they were signed reduced giclee prints of larger original watercolors. If they were originals, they're executed in an uncommonly small format which is somewhat ridiculous from an artistic efficiency and control standpoint. I've known some miniature artists in the past and it tends to be the 'only' thing they're in to, but eccentricity dies hard...

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Ze 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]

Frank Gang! So good.

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Ze 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? https://youtu.be/SBPXd6GZPqQ

Fabuloso

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Ze 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]

That was the most information-dense Ze Frank vid I've ever seen. Very little of the trademark humour (except for bebbes) but very interesting indeed & seriously worth a watch.

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Brilliant! And for forgive me for jumping in to recommend one my all-time Philip K. Dick favorites: Clans of the Alphane Moon, as it features the memorable and adorable Lord Running Clam a telepathic, intelligent and friendly slime mold from Ganymede.

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The time lapse of the yellow mold was amazing.

And it kind of reminds me of cellular automata… maybe because that’s my current distraction. With so few rules they begin doing fascinating stuff.

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The time lapse of the yellow mold was amazing. And it kind of reminds me of cellular automata… maybe because that’s my current distraction. With so few rules they begin doing fascinating stuff.

They're also pretty good at urban planning it turns out. nature is full of simple things with deceptively complex behaviors.

https://phys.org/news/2022-01-virtual-slime-mold-subway-netw...

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Earlier 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

This is literally my favouriate living thing beyond my immediate family. Even the names are amazing: dog vomit slimemould. I mean COME ON.

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Earlier 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

Had one in my garden as well last month! Here we call them “Witch’s butter” [0]. It was there for some days and seemed to move a bit over those days but then crumbled indeed.

[0] https://nl.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heksenboter

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