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

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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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Quinta Loreto Hotel, Cjon. de Loreto 15, Centro, Zona Centro, 37700 San Miguel de Allende, Gto.

From Cjon. de Loreto, enter the Mercado de Artisanias alley (East, going up-hill) about twenty yards and turn to your left into the Hotel Quinta Loreto compound.

The community center is on the Southeast side of the little central park. If you are coming by car, there is a parking lot within the compound.

(The community center is in the same location as the Philosophical get-together which is held on Fridays.)

A 50 pesos donation is suggested.

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