Story Archives of 'urban planning'

In the 19th and 20th century, urban planners and landscape architects designed our modern cities in a way that addressed infectious diseases and even mental health issues. These days, with childhood obesity rates tripling in the last 30 years, many people have started thinking about how urban planning can impact childhood obesity and public health.

Neither animal nor vegetable nor mineral, slime is not generally thought of as an intelligent life form. As Henry Fountain explains in the New York Times, slime mold is a “single-celled amoeboid organism." What does it do? It eats. And in seeking food, slime mold builds something very appealing to modern science: efficient networks.