Slime Mold

"There's a false impression that taxonomy is old-fashioned, like stamp collecting," says Quentin Wheeler of Arizona State University, an expert in slime-mold and fungus-feeding beetles. ❋ Gautam Naik (2011)

Yeah, but did slime-mold say "no" to the Bridge to Nowhere? ❋ Unknown (2009)

Steven Stephenson, a slime-mold expert from Fairmont State College in West Virginia, has brought fellow scientists from as far away as Britain and Russia to study these strange fungi that creep along and feed like animals. ❋ Unknown (2008)

George W. Bush, Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld now each has a slime-mold beetle named in his honor. ❋ Unknown (2005)

Liverputty: bush, cheney, and rumsfeld are slime-mold beetles. ❋ Mat (2005)

Technically speaking, in fact, they don't seem to have any body-cells as adults-just a sort of generalized protoplasmic continuum in which the nuclei are scattered at random, rather like the plasmodium of a slime-mold. ❋ Blish, James (1957)

And naturally, as Lyndon LaRouche has said many times, the problem with these bubbles, is they're like a slime-mold, as are their owners. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Such principled distinctions, point out almost any kind of a popular folly of an entire population, that in fashion often suggesting the common, controlling feature subsuming the process of a slime-mold. ❋ Unknown (2009)

bush, cheney, and rumsfeld are slime-mold beetles. ❋ Mat (2005)