02-04-20 D. McClintock-Physarum Polycephalum - G. Agraik-Chernobyl
02/04/20
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David McClintock:
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There are living things here on Earth worth a look.
Physarum Polycephalum is quite strange. It moves; it hunts, it eats. Yet it lives as a single cell, which despite having no brain, can solve remarkable problems.
Physarum is not an animal.
Physarum is not a plant.
Physarum is not a fungus.
It is its own peculiar genus.It has been here for many many millions of years.
Maybe it's hard to argue with a good design that has kept on evolving across eons of species extinctions. This mainly an introduction to creatures we may not have been much aware of.
Garth Agraik
Presentation
Visiting Chernobyl - a first-person account
"Leaving daily from Kiev, tourists enter the military-guarded perimeter of one of the world's most radioactive sites. Located two hours north of Ukraine's capital city, visitors travel to the cities of Chernobyl and Pripyat.....even right right up to the building housing the remains of melted reactor #4."
Rob Lerner
"Viruses and assorted news"
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