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Summary: Want more cool facts about slime mold? Who doesn't!? Join Kiersten for more unbelievable facts about slime mold.   For my hearing impaired listeners, a complete transcript of this podcast follows the show notes on Podbean   Show Notes: “Slime Molds: No Brains, No Feet, No Problem,” Science Thursday. PBS. https://www.pbs.org “100 million years in amber: Researchers discover oldest fossilized slime mold,” University of Gottingen. Science Daily. https://www.sciencedaily.com “Slime Molds” by Dr. Sharon M. Douglas, Department of Plant Pathology and Ecology, The Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station. https://portal.ct.gov Music written and performed by Katherine Camp   Transcript  (Piano music plays) Kiersten - This is Ten Things I Like About…a ten minute, ten episode podcast about unknown or misunderstood wildlife. (Piano music stops) Welcome to Ten Things I Like About… I'm Kiersten, your host, and this is a podcast about misunderstood or unknown creatures in nature. Some we'll find right out side our doors and some are continents away but all are fascinating.  This podcast will focus ten, ten minute episodes on different animals and their amazing characteristics. Please join me on this extraordinary journey, you won't regret it. The last episode of Slime Mold has arrived. It's bitter sweet for me because I have loved researching this organism but I'm also excited about which  creature will come next. We're going out with a bang though, the tenth thing I like about slime mold is that there are so many more cool facts about it! Before we delve into the the amazing facts we haven't yet discussed about slime mold, let's talk about conservation and control. Slime mold is not in any need of conservation methods at the time. The species that we know about are all doing well. There is plenty of places for slime mold to thrive and some species, like the Dog Vomit Slime Mold, are doing better than ever because of our need to use mulch on our landscaped gardens. This is good news for this organism, but we have to keep in mind that disappearing habitat like forests and wetlands means that all creatures that rely on these areas are at risk. As we change the landscape around us to fit our needs, we take away habitat that these organisms rely on to survive. That does include slime mold. Many people contact local gardening clubs and college extensions to ask how to control slime mold that they find in their gardens. The only thing you need to do, is scoop out the mulch that is growing on and throw it out. Slime mold doesn't harm plants that it is near or on. Most of the time it dries out and goes away before it can damage any plants that you might find it on. So control is a moot point, really, and after listening to this series, I hope you get excited about the slime mold you find in your backyard! Okay let's talk about some of the other cool facts about slime mold.  If slime mold gets torn apart it can reform! The protoplasm of slime mold allows it to be separated and reform again when the pieces get near each other. Each tiny bit is interchangeable. Every individual protoplasm unit of slime mold can become a vein or limb-like projection that reaches out in the direction the mold wants to travel. There are, however, organelles inside the slime mold that are unable to do this. They are fixed as organelles and never change.  It does beg the question can you kill slime mold? “It's hard to say,” says Tanya Latty, an Australian researcher studying slime mold. There is a beetle that eats slime mold, but can it eat enough to kill an individual glob? “We don't know if they eat enough of the body to make a difference,” continues Latty. “You could lose half of the biomass and it wouldn't matter. It would just reorganize itself and be like, “I'm fine!” End quote.  If you can't kill slime mold, how long can it live? Excellent question, but we have no idea how long slime mold can live. When it dries out its called a sclerotia and it can survive like this for up to two years and still be revived with a little bit of moisture. As of the recoding of this podcast in 2024, a zoo in Paris has a slime mold currently on display in its plasmodial form that they acquired in 2019. That's five years of living as a protoplasm.  How long has slime mold been on earth? British and German scientists estimate that slime mold may have evolved 600 million years ago. In 2020 researchers discovered the oldest fossilized slime mold. It was a 100 million year old sample preserved in amber.  For organisms without feet, slime mold can travel some long distances. When in its plasmodial form the blob can travel one inch an hour (I may never complain about rush hour traffic again!), but it's not this form that allows them to travel all over the world. When reproducing, the spores are released into the air and have, somehow, travelled on the wind around the globe. There are slime molds with identical genetic structure found in the United States and New Zealand. That is an amazingly long way to travel on the wind! Speaking of genetics…during the RNA editing phase slime mold genes make uncommonly large numbers of corrections. They are continually making changes to its original plans. Jonatha Gott of Case Western University says, “As it's making a copy of the DNA, it changes it. It's incredibly precise and incredibly accurate. If it does't do this, it dies. It's a really crazy way to express genes.” It also makes it incredibly interesting to scientists developing ways to cure cancer. I have no doubt that the list of cool facts about slime mold will continue to grow as we learn more about this unbelievable organism. I'm glad I was able to share some of the cool facts we currently know about slime mold with all of my listeners because that's my tenth favorite thing about slime mold. If you're enjoying this podcast please recommend me to friends and family and take a moment to give me a rating on whatever platform your listening. It will help me reach more listeners and give the animals I talk about an even better chance at change.    Join me in two weeks for a new series about another misunderstood or unknown creature.       (Piano Music plays)  This has been an episode of Ten Things I like About with Kiersten and Company. Original music written and performed by Katherine Camp, piano extraordinaire.

Summary: Looking for an easy care but unusual pet? Slime mold might be just what you're looking for! Join Kiersten as she talks about slime molds as pets.   For my hearing impaired listeners, a complete transcript of this podcast follows the show notes on Podbean   Show Notes:  “Slime Molds: No Brains, No Feet, No Problem,” Science Thursday. PBS. https://www.pbs.org The Slime Mould Collective, https://slimoco.ning.com Carolina Biological Supply Company, https://www.carolina.com Slime Moulds: The University of Warwick, Life Sciences, https://warwick.ac.uk Music written and performed by Katherine Camp     Transcript  (Piano music plays) Kiersten - This is Ten Things I Like About…a ten minute, ten episode podcast about unknown or misunderstood wildlife. (Piano music stops) Welcome to Ten Things I Like About… I'm Kiersten, your host, and this is a podcast about misunderstood or unknown creatures in nature. Some we'll find right out side our doors and some are continents away but all are fascinating.  This podcast will focus ten, ten minute episodes on different animals and their amazing characteristics. Please join me on this extraordinary journey, you won't regret it. We've reached the penultimate episode of slime mold and it's kind of an odd one, although, most of these series has been odd. The ninth thing I like about…well I'm on the fence about whether I truly like this, so let's say the ninth thing I'm going to talk about slime mold is people keeping it as a pet. This is may be the most unusual creature to keep as a pet, but I guess you could get attached to this little rule breaker. It seems they might be easy to feed, a few oats can go along way, they don't need a large space to roam around, and they don't need a lot of light. Keeping the proper temperature and humidity levels might be the most difficult task, but let's see what some slime mold pet owners have to say. The University of Warwick in Coventry, England has instructions on the L  Ife Sciences page for how to keep slime mold alive. It's fairly straight forward. The slime mold they talk about is our old friend Physarum polycephalum, aka The Blob. This is the species most commonly used in laboratory experiments and was the focus of most of the intelligence studies we talked about in the last episode.  According to the Warwick guide to looking after your slime mold, it really is fairly simple. You can keep your slime mold in any waterproof container. They use petri dishes at the university, but any plastic tub is sufficient. It will need a source of moisture, so a damp piece of kitchen towel works just fine. Having a supply of oats on hand is a must, but you don't need much more than that to feed your slime mold. You can feed it every few days, but be sure that you do, or it might make like Harry Houdini and escape imprisonment.  If the slime mold gets hungry it will figure out a way to slip out of it's tub and look for the nutrients it needs. It also doesn't like to hang out on old food, I'm really who does, so when you feed it you want to put it to one side so it moves around it's enclosure. Exercise does keep you healthy.  If you're looking for a pet that doesn't need a lot of clean up, your in luck with slime mold. You'll need to clean up the piece of substrate it's living on at least once a week. You can lure it to one side for food and remove the paper it's laying on with a new piece. This actually does sound kind of fun. When you've had enough of slime mold parenthood, you can just let if dry out in the dark and it goes into a sort of torpor. The dried up slime mold in called a sclerotia. It can stay on this state for almost tow years. Then it can be woken up by re-dampening the paper and feeding it oats again. Sounds pretty fool proof to me! But, just like any living creature, there are problems that can arise. I find it interesting that Warwick University offers a troubleshooting guide to slime mold. Makes it sound like a computer program not a living organism. None the less, it sounds like good advice. As mentioned before, you may have an escape happen. If you do, they say you can just lure it back into its enclosure with some yummy oats.  If you're slime mold becomes smelly or moldy, more so that usual I guess, then it may have become contaminated with something. You can coax a bit of it onto a new piece of paper and move it into a new container. The rest of the slime mold and the old container will need to be bleached. If your slime mold turns brown or gray, remember healthy blobs are typical a yellow color, or becomes runny. I have bad news. It's dead. You'll have to start over with a new colony, after an appropriate mourning period, of course. If your slime mold develops black spots and stops moving. Mazel tov, you're a parent! Your slime mold was probably exposed to too much light and has moved onto the next stage of its life, making spores. That's it for this colony of slime mold. You'll have to start over again. I take back what I said before, this does seem like a pretty easy pet to have, although on long vacations you'll need to have a pet sitter. Do they have a slime mold option on Rover?   While doing research for this episode I found a website called The Slime Mould Collective. Mold spelled mould, the European spelling. There were people asking questions about slime mold from all over the world. Could be a good way to bond with someone from across the planet. Slime mold, bringing us together. Stranger things have happened. If you have other pets, such as fogs to cats, keep in mind that while slime mold is not toxic to them ingestion of the slime mold could cause some tummy troubles. The earthy smell that slime mold produces when it's healthy might attract your four-legged furry friends, so for everyones sake, especially your carpet, keep your slime mold in a secure space away from your other pets. There are two ways to obtain your slime mold. You can collect some from your garden or you can order some from online providers. The Carolina Biological Supply Company will ship you a slime mold started kit for about $53 US dollars. This is aimed at the science class so it comes with sclerotia for five slime mold starters, 10 Petri dishes lined with agar solution, and one Physarum plasmodium plate.  Collecting some from your garden will be a lot less expensive, but I'm hesitant to do that. After everything I've learned about slime mold intelligence how could I take it out of its natural habitat. For all we know, it could know that it's no longer living in the wild but stuck in a plastic butter tub in someone's kitchen. You may be shaking you head right now or laughing out loud, but just think back to the last episode where we talked about all the things slime mold can do without a brain. The next thing we discover about slime could that it has consciousness. I wouldn't put anything past this amazing little organism. Thanks for sticking with me to the ninth episode of slime mold, listeners, I may have to revise what I said at the beginning of this episode and say my ninth favorite thing about slime mold is that you can keep it as a pet. I may just go order some right now! If you're enjoying this podcast please recommend me to friends and family and take a moment to give me a rating on whatever platform your listening. It will help me reach more listeners and give the animals I talk about an even better chance at change.    Join me next week for another fascinating episode about slime mold.       (Piano Music plays)  This has been an episode of Ten Things I like About with Kiersten and Company. Original music written and performed by Katherine Camp, piano extraordinaire.

On a reheated edition of Talkin' Science Thursday, we're flashing back to November 2019 – and our chat with Northrop Grumman mere days before the maiden flight of their new Antares 230 series rocket… Catch this interview in full now… The post That Time When We Were Ready for Launch with Northrop Grumman appeared first on Trekzone.

Why are Apple and Amazon denying that they were part of the Supermicro supply chain attack? We’ve got a few guesses…. (watch this episode on youtube! link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MoyANbb_hn4 ) ~Science Thursday~ ft Evan Rodgers and Ana Vasquez Topics this week: Japan lands some bots on an Asteroid, Leo Dicaprio’s THE BEACH beach is trashed, Dogs R dumb! Custom T-cell cancer killers, flu-shot bots, and secret Chinese spy chips. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thats-all-folks/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/thats-all-folks/support

Ba-dum, goo’d up, Biddy-Da-dum Goo’d up. 3 days after a full moon, and 55 mins after sunset an Ella Mai secretes a brightly glowing green goo and rapidly swims in small circles. A nearby Drake sees her. Something in his feelings makes him start glowing just as bright as Ella. Almost uncontrollably, he darts toward her in the warm Caribbean Sea. The two encircle eachother, dim, and disappear. New studies into this slimy bioluminscent phenomenon are so fascinating, even the scientists are a little goo’d up. This ep of ~Science Thursday~ is a mess. Sorry. But we talk about, plant and worm sounds, Gender Bias, Electrons, Forest fires, Lichen, biodegradable paper batteries, and porn. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thats-all-folks/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/thats-all-folks/support

This week we ask ourselves if we should stop pretending to be a Drake, “In My Feelings” remix. The answer is no. Welcome to another ~Science Thursday~ we are joined by Zach Show Live and Tree. Tree has a pet bird so i found some bird news. Birds learn foreign bird calls, they can see color and they categorize. There’s a new steampunk looking pill the detect gut gases. BTW, dont eat centipedes. ROBO NEWS: new wheeled-robo-boy , and a popcorn powered robot. New tools for bluring faces using google deep dream type stuff. Optical computing: what is it? We try to understand. And good news about coral: one type will be kind of okay. Thanks for listening! ~Ryan --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thats-all-folks/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/thats-all-folks/support

I hope you took your study’s drugs cause I need you to stay positive during this rocky ep. Welcome to ~Science Thursday~ where a supermassive black hole is stretching us out like taffy, luckily we’ve eaten so much adderall and cat poop that we’re confident we can turn this into a money making opportunity. This week, Zach and Ryan are joined by their brother Sean. and in the middle of the show, Nick comes in. They talk about ancient bread crumbs, life on Europa , a new big dinosaur, Facebook hooking narcissists, social Media becoming more manipulative, the California fires, and farming rainforests sustainably. Thanks for listening ✌️you’re always in my feelings. ❤️ -Dr. drake, Archaeobotanist --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thats-all-folks/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/thats-all-folks/support

The Science news has really got me in my feelings this week, Welcome to ~ Science Thursday~ where we take so much LSD that our dendrites drag on the floor... WELP the Gov suppressed a report on the toxicity of PFAS because it turns out we’re all drinking poison and they thought that would be tough to news TO SWALLOW. ALSO, you just can’t escape pollution cause it turns even the theoretically “untrammeled” lands of our national parks have just as much air pollution as cities….GREAT. FUCK. on top of that, hot dogs cause mania cause the nitrates wreck your stomach bacteria?? And fucked up stomach bacteria in a mom could lead to autism ???? Psychedelics like LSD, MDMA, and DMT help with depression by promoting dendritic growth and they call them “psychoplastogens.” Elon Musk and a bunch of other AI-heads sign a pledge to not build autonomous killing machines. The oldest baby snake preserved in amber. We thought we would find mummies, but we got mummy soup. Can isolation have evolutionary a --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thats-all-folks/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/thats-all-folks/support

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Heyyy. it's another sci thursss and we got Evan and Paul as our fellow armchair scientists. We talk about how space is full of dirty grease

Science Thursday: randomly called Jordan and Regina and they answered. Zach came in with a jam. We talked about the Mars “organic matter” alien stuff, sucking carbon dioxide to stop climate change, the epa r idiots, the famous marshmallow test was bogus, dolphin echolocation research could make ultrasounds better, there’s an app to test for autism, the first footprint on land happened 10 million years before they thought, and India steps it up hard by banning all single use plastic by 2022. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thats-all-folks/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/thats-all-folks/support

Pickle rick is real: rat muscles in a robot finger. Other scientists built artificial pressure sensing nerves that could be used for prosthetics.They put them in a cockroach. Trick facial recognition AI by making it fight another AI, *AI VS AI*. a new study says people with bad vision are smarter?.IN OTHER EYEBALL NEWS: Step aside, lasik eye surgery, the femtosecond oscillator is gonna rock ur sockets until their macroscopic geometry is flipping owl level. The Gorillas are comin' back, baby! And a bunch of monkeys help dudes chill out. Horny old men r less religious, ?. ANd some neuroscientists think they found the brain's 'spiritual zone' , its the parietal cortex. Ok. TREES SWEAT! SWEATY TREES! and they're gonna be sweating hard cause some dang plant scientists found a way to boost crop production by 47%! Finally, some other person figured out how to use a magic EDM metal (bismuth) to 'tune' carbon dioxide transforming it into fuel!?, 'IRL Alchemy', this could save the earth? --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thats-all-folks/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/thats-all-folks/support

This week we talk about freeing a Killer Whale #freelolita

What is it like to be a foreign student or staff member at the Radboud University Faculty of Science as it becomes more and more international? People with all sorts of different ethnic-cultural backgrounds, habits, languages and norms work together in the Huygens building. The way people act, react or express emotions can vary widely between different cultures. This diversity increases the number of perspectives, but it might also cause problems in communication and/or mutual understanding. Think about your own and other people's cultural differences and gain new insight about how they can enrich your work during this lunch meeting. Radboud Reflects Month of Ethics @ Faculty of Science | Thursday 16 November 2017 | 12. 45 – 13.30 hrs | Central Hall Huygens building (Noordstraat) Radboud University Read the review: https://www.ru.nl/radboudreflects/terugblik/terugblik-2017-0/terugblik-2017/17-11-16-cultural-diversity-at-the-faculty-science/ Never want to miss a podcast again? Subscribe to this channel. Radboud Reflects Organizes in-depth lectures about philosophy, religion, ethics, society and culture. www.ru.nl/radboudreflects Wil je op de hoogte blijven van onze activiteiten? Schrijf je dan in voor de tweewekelijkse nieuwsbrief: https://www.ru.nl/radboudreflects/nieuwsbrief/aanmelden-mailnieuwsbrief-radboud-reflects/ Do you want to stay up to date about our activities? Please sign in for the English newsletter: https://www.ru.nl/radboudreflects/nieuwsbrief/subscribe-to-newsletter/

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The fourth of five special editions of the Naked Scientists recorded live on location at the BA Festival of Science, Norwich. In this programme we get the inside information on pet hates and jealousy with Paul Morris, and insights into the science of the deep sea with Crispin Little. Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

The fourth of five special editions of the Naked Scientists recorded live on location at the BA Festival of Science, Norwich. In this programme we get the inside information on pet hates and jealousy with Paul Morris, and insights into the science of the deep sea with Crispin Little. Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists