Dictyostelid

I was assinged a project in Biology recently and we had to choose from a list of bizarre animals, the list only had the names. I chose the Dicyostelid, figuring it would be interesting. It turns out that Dicyostelium are microscopic slime moulds when faced the with no food will form together to make a psuedoplasmodium or slug (not to be confused with the gross animal which leaves a slimy trail). They have been used by many biologists and geneticists for scientific experiments.

GIS

Today I worked on a thing with my class called GIS. Apparently it stands for Geographic Info Systems, and we worked on adding aerial photos from 1937 onto Google Earth, and we could do mucho cool things like fade the photo so we could compare the old and the modern, the forest and suburbia, etc. It was very sad to see all this wilderness and farmland replaced by industrial plants and suburban developments.