In Our Time’s programme on Slime Moulds makes compelling listening - absolutely essential listening if you want to find the shortest route to the exit in Ikea! It really is a fascinating insight into slime moulds and whether they have a brain…
Almost any topic in the series is fascinating, this one is great, your trailer comment about IKEA is excellent!
Absolutely! Along with Jim Al-Khalili and the Life Scientific, what sounds a dull topic becomes compelling listening.
Not forgetting More Or Less with Tim Harford.
Exactly!! Why is it that BBC Radio produces such interesting programmes and yet their television service is so dire?
Possibly the TV has to be entertainment.
along with ‘crowd science’ & and ‘unexpected elements’ available on bbc sounds & as podcasts
‘Tracking the planet’ available on bbc sounds for over a year, but not as podcast, 3 28m episodes show how even tiny migratory birds with trackers can provide geolocated weather data,and sharks have revealed a vast new area of seagrass.
And uk’s channel 4 has a repeat of ‘2024 the year from space’ 1h30m 6.50pm where the 1,000s of satellites takg millions of pictures from space
Agreed - it’s a feast!
Helen MacDonald’s book Falcon mentions that migrating birds use quantum biology to navigate. I don’t profess to understand what that actually is, but Jim al Khalili in his book Life on the Edge also goes into this phenomenon, along with how MRI scanners are using quantum effects by aligning particles via magnets…make of it what you will. It would appear to me that the birds align themselves atomically with the magnetic lines of the planet. When I hear things like this although I don’t really understand them, that is what makes me feel excited - because it means we still have a lot to learn and we may be humbled into realising that humans perhaps are actually not the most sophisticated or intelligent of living creatures…although we are one of the most recent.
Welcome to iSpot Carol.
We do still have a lot to learn and interacting on iSpot is, for me, always a happy learning experience.
I see that Carol joined December 2013 and her activity tracker is here:
https://www.ispotnature.org/view/user/32846/activity-tracker
After a long time away, she returned yesterday with this lichen, which needs the ID validating if anyone can help: