blob experiments
Agar vs Coffee Filters: Choosing the Best Substrate for Your Slime Lab
A comparison of professional petri dish setups: when to use the laboratory gold-standard and when to stick with household paper.
The 'Bacterial Choke': How Over-Soaking Your Filter Paper Kills Your Blob
The #1 cause of culture failure: why excessive moisture creates a bacterial explosion that can suffocate your slime mold.
The Lego Maze Caveat: Why Your Slime Mold Usually Cheats
How Physarum exploits seams, moisture bridges, and low walls in DIY Lego mazes, plus design rules for fair maze experiments.
Experiment: The Lego Maze Challenge
How to test your blob's intelligence using a classic maze. Learn the shortest-path algorithm that puts GPS to shame.
The Toothpick Method: Precision Protocols for Transferring Slime Mold
How to move your 'sticky and slimy' blob between habitats using simple household tools and professional laboratory precision.
Experiment: The Tokyo Subway Map
How a brainless slime mold redesigned one of the world's most complex transit systems—and beat the professional engineers.
The Heartbeat Under the Lens: Visualizing Shuttle Streaming at 100x
A step-by-step guide to preparing a live-cell slide to observe the rhythmic 'shuttle streaming' of the blob’s internal organs/fluids.