Magic monster heads, oozing slime and a soap powered fish are some of the subjects of the Big Book of Science Things to Make and Do, which won the £10,000 award for Rebecca Gilpin, Leonie Pratt and illustrator Josephine Thompson.
The invasive species has sharp teeth, a thick protective slime and a breathing system that allows it to survive out of water for days.
The fruit bodies (mushrooms) produced by the fungus are characterized by a chocolate to reddish-brown cap covered with a sticky layer of slime, and a short whitish stem that does not have either a partial veil or prominent dark or colored glandular dots.
At the time of our interview, the film was still a work in progress with the CGI team at Double Negative, who have partnered with The Imaginarium Studios on this project, but a sneak preview reveals a vivid underworld of slime and snot, a colourful and exceedingly lifelike version of Briggs's cartoon, in which Fungus, his wife Mildew and their yukky son Mould happily terrorise the "topside".
You know that one scene in Ghostbusters II when they spray the internal walls of the Statue of Liberty with slime and play a "positive" song so she'll help them fight Vigo the Carpathian?
Daniel Pauly, a Canadian marine biologist, has recommended the "Myxocene," from the Greek word for "slime," and Andrew Revkin, an American journalist, has offered the "Anthrocene".
"We just grabbed some kids and said, "'C'mon and let's go see what is in the pond,"' At a fall festival, activities included slime, goo and ooze, an out-of-the-box approach to studying polymers.
I always wanted to dig in a giant nose filled with green slime and run on a giant human hamster wheel!
"This is part of an overall slime-and-defend strategy," said Max Cleland, the former Georgia senator and Vietnam veteran who has been campaigning for Mr. Kerry.
Here, we investigated the potential of S. aureus isolated from bovine mastitis to produce slime and biofilm in a skim-milk medium and classified the isolates according to their agr type.
Of course, by nature he was a bottom-feeder, a mudfish, accustomed to slime and algae and to an environment that, for other fish, would be insufferable.
