Should there be a border wall? Jonathon Keats
For the first time, non-human researchers are issuing policy advice on everything from the proposed border wall between the US and Mexico to the positive correlation of environmental hardship with material affluence.
The Plasmodium Consortium at Hampshire College, Massachusetts, is a policy research institute composed of “visiting non-human scholars” – members of the species Physarum polycephalum, one of the more common types of slime mould. A minor celebrity in philosophical circles, slime moulds are neither unicellular nor multicellular, but something in between.
They move very slowly, via decentralised protoplasm tubes. Despite having…
