Slime Mold: The Blob on the Lawn
GardenLine / Yard & Garden / Slime Mold: The Blob on the Lawn After an extended period of heavy rain an organism known as Slime Mold (Mucilago sp., Physarum sp., Fuligo sp.) may appear in your lawn. Slime mold takes many forms. The most common ... [... more]
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Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, ...
 From Amazon.com: An individual ant, like an individual neuron, is just about as dumb as can be. Connect enough of them together properly, though, and you get spontaneous intelligence. Web pundit Steven Johnson explains what we know about this phenomenon [... more]
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Ages Of Gaia
Reviewing Lovelock's second book on the Gaia Hypothesis: "The Ages of Gaia" by James Lovelock What is the Gaia Hypothesis? Stated simply, the idea is that we may have discovered a living being bigger, more ancient, and more complex than [... more]
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The Ages of Gaia: A Biography of Our Living Earth
Reviewing Lovelock's second book on the Gaia Hypothesis: "The Ages of Gaia" by James Lovelock What is the Gaia Hypothesis? Stated simply, the idea is that we may have discovered a living being bigger, more ancient, and more complex than [... more]
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Mushrooms of Northeast North America: Midwest to New England
Wonderful Guide: This book by George Barron is a wonderful feild guide. Every picture is large and in vivid color not like many books that that have small or unclear pictures. This detail makes distinguishing alike mushrooms simple, and if you are still [... more]
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The Variety of Life: A survey and a celebration of all ...
From Amazon.com: It takes a brave writer to tackle the truly Herculean task of describing The Variety of Life with the astronomical numbers of organisms living today, let alone all those that have fallen by the wayside over the billions of years of life [... more]
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Turtles, Termites, and Traffic Jams: Explorations in ...
interesting, but describes an old version of the software: This is a book describing the research of a team at MIT using a version of the educational language "Logo". Running in a simple graphical environment which supports multiple parallel [... more]
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Clans of the Alphane Moon
Slime Mold resurrection: After reading the Valis trilogy a few years back, I ...started the first couple chapters and wasn't very impressed; so I put it aside and read some other stuff. I always meant to get back to it - and now I finally did. I don't [... more]
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Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, ...
From Amazon.com: An individual ant, like an individual neuron, is just about as dumb as can be. Connect enough of them together properly, though, and you get spontaneous intelligence. Web pundit Steven Johnson explains what we know about this phenomenon [... more]
CDN$21.00
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Myxomycetes: A Handbook of Slime Molds
As Strange as Any Life from Mars Could be!: The slime molds are generally little noticed, but very strange life forms that could easily fit in a science fiction book. The swarm cells and myxamoebae unite to form first an amoeboid zygote, then the strange, [... more]
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Scientific American The Amateur Biologist
Too much engineering!: This selection of experiments demands a lot of "building." Admittedly you do build cool things-a machine for measuring insect heart beats, a home electrophoresis set-up, a high altitude chamber, a device for measuring [... more]
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