Author: Miss Cellania / Source: Neatorama
Calling your professors names is not considered the best way to get an A in science class, but calling one teacher a slime mold is just a description. Physarum Polycephalum has been named as a visiting scholar at Hampshire College in Massachusetts. It has its own webpage, office (in a dark basement), and office hours.
A recent symposium held to present the slime mold’s work featured wine and cheese for the humans and oats for the slime mold. From the faculty page:Physarum Polycephalum, a plasmodial slime mold, researches important problems from a non-human perspective, and enhances intellectual life on campus by helping students and colleagues to think about the world without human biases.
The visiting scholar at Hampshire is not on a tenure track. But the stunt highlights the amazing things that slime molds…
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