Orchid Biocomputer

Orchid mantis

James O'Hanlon introduces the orchid mantis, a species of preying mantis that resembles flowers.

BioComputer Music: Generating Musical Responses with Physarum polycephalum-Based Memristors

This paper introduces BioComputer Music, an experimental one-piano duet between pianist and plasmodial slime mould Physarum polycephalum. This piece harnesses a system we have been developing, which we call BioComputer. BioComputer consists of an analogue circuit that encompasses components grown from the biological computing substrate Physarum polycephalum. Our system listens to the pianist an...

Orchid bees

protozoa, such as those that cause sleeping sickness, leishmaniasis, and even malaria, predominantly reproduce clonally, which is, of course, of considerable medical significance. In May 1991, Tibayrenc returned to my lab, now at UC Irvine, for 14 months of additional research. We have continued collaborating to the present. Are science and religion compatible? Evolution and religious beliefs n...

The Seductive Orchid

Orchid seed germination pdf