@franco_vazza How did you feel about the interaction with a more artsy crowd? Did you feel you could reach them? I once gave a talk about the cosmic web and LSS simulations in an art venue in Berlin and found it impossible to engage in fruitful conversation after my talk. The strong esoteric and metaphysical preconceptions of a lot of the visitors were just too strong and the whole time I was just trying to point out the limits and goals of the scientific method. Never tried it again.
@grimgorg 🤭 it went quite well to be honest. The artist herself is very interested in science, and discovered about the slime mold after noticing an astronomy article in which they sort of used it to reconstruct the cosmic web. The other "panelists" also were somewhat related to complexity and network in physics or media stuff, so the event itself did not call for much exoteric detours..
I wasn't aware of the prodigies the slime mold (Physarum polycephalum), an organism probably 500 million years old and without a central neuronal system, can do!
Here some examples from the web: https://youtube.com/shorts/OBYqSr-c6Ks?si=XwYJb__-AT4X4CV-
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