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Mind Molding
FromThe Psychosphere
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Length:
34 minutes
Released:
Apr 29, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
How smart is a slime mould? In this episode, Melanie is joined by Nirosha Murugan to discuss the weird and wonderful lives of slime moulds. Nirosha is Assistant Professor in the Health Sciences department at Wilfrid Laurier University in Canada, where she studies tissue biophysics and cancer biology. In her prior work, she studied regenerative biology and comparative cognition, with a focus on slime moulds, an almost unclassifiable set of single cell organisms, famed for their seemingly paradoxical abilities to be intelligent in the absence of a brain... You can learn more about Nirosha here.
Released:
Apr 29, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (23)
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