Wednesday, February 02, 2011

Not bad for a blob

Check out a piece I wrote for Slate Magazine about some research by my Rice colleagues on the evolution of primitive farming by a social amoeba-- aka "slime mold."

A variety of other places have covered the story, which is great publicity for their cool discovery. Some photos that I took of the social amoeba got picked up by several places, including The New York Times and a magazine in Sweden that plans to publish a full page version of this photo:



Here are a few more photos I took of the lovely Dicty farmers, as well as their discoverer, Debbie Brock, in her natural habitat.







1 comment:

Jeff said...

I'd already read about this on the Nature News site, but I like your article better (and of course I'm unbiased in that). This is a pretty cool discovery.

Oh, and thanks for blogging again. I was starting to have to consider moving you to the inactive section on my blogroll.