Who needs transportation planners when there are slime molds? The Economist looks at a recent study that showed how these "colonial amoebas" followed the same paths of Tokyo’s existing rail network. The organisms "had not simply created the shortest possible network that could connect all the cities, but had also included redundant connections that allow the creature (and the real rail network) to have resilience to the accidental breakage of any part of it." [Economist]
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