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Slime Moulds to run the railways?

Oxford Abridged Short Talks by Oxford University

Feb 10, 201112:55Education

Should we let slime moulds run our railways? Slime moulds can produce networks as efficient, cost-effective and resilient as railway networks designed by people, despite having no central control over what they build.

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Slime Moulds to run the railways? is an episode from Oxford Abridged Short Talks by Oxford University. Should we let slime moulds run our railways? Slime moulds can produce networks as efficient, cost-effective and resilient as railway netw...

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Published Feb 10, 2011, 12:55 long, audio available.