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#394 - Carl Zimmer - What Are The Weirdest Types Of Life?
Modern Wisdom
How to Grow a Slime Mud
In the book, i write about slime moulds. They're giant, single celled, blobby organisms that you can see ar in the forest. Scientists have all sorts of fun running experiments with them. Intelligence is one of the hall marks of life, because everything from us to a slime mould has it. And they are literally solving math problems with no need of a brain.
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