What is a bright yellow growth on a portion of a tree. But don’t be fooled: the star of the exhibit, a slime mold nicknamed “the Blob,” can solve mazes, help make music, and re-form itself in two minutes after being split in half—all without a brain. When faced with challenges, the Blob is able to put its many "heads" together to find efficient solutions, even though it doesn't have a brain.
Others have harnessed the Blob’s memory to create music. Ed Braund, a lecturer in computing, audio, and music technology at the University of Plymouth, said in an email that systems created by him and others incorporate the slime mold to listen to music and improvise.
On Saturday, Dussutour will give a talk at the zoo titled “The Blob, A UFO of Biology.” The followers day, gardeners at the zoo will explain how they grow the Blob, and on October 26, the documentary "The Blob, a genius without a brain” will premiere at the Pariscience film festival.
The Canadian government has issued a limited edition glow-in-the-dark coin to commemorate one of Canada’s most important historical events: a UFO crash.
The Royal Canadian Mint has produced 4000 coins commemorating an event where the townspeople and fishermen of Shag Harbour witnessed a large luminous object crash into the water just off the coast of Nova Scotia, Canada.
Witnesses told the local press at the time that a large bright object was seen flying over the town for nearly an hour until it fell out of the sky into the water. Fearing the worst, the RCMP officers and the local fishermen immediately launched a search and rescue operation.
“The blob is really one of the most extraordinary things on Earth today, but it’s been here for millions of years, and we still don’t really know what it is,” Bruno David, director of the French National Museum of Natural History in Paris, told Reuters.
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