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And so we close the ancient, flesh-bound spell book on another Trick or Treat Month... but we're going out on top, baby! Alexis Nikole Nelson has appeared, as if by magic, to lead us into the deep, dark woods and point out all the slimy, sticky, gross stuff on the ground that she says we can eat. I guess I trust her!

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[This or That]

Round 1 - Blue glowing slime

https://scripps.ucsd.edu/news/tube-wo...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...

Round 2 - Eating parents’ slime

https://animalmicrobiome.biomedcentra...

https://www.wired.co.uk/article/caeci...

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases...

https://analyticalsciencejournals.onl...

Round 3 - Snottites

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/sc...

Round 4 - Mating plug

https://journals.biologists.com/jeb/a...

https://link.springer.com/article/10....

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/f...

[Trivia Tiebreaker]

Hagfish slime on road

https://www.southernfriedscience.com/...

[Ask the Science Couch]

Slime molds and biocomputers

https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/...

https://www.nature.com/articles/s4159...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...

https://link.springer.com/article/10....

https://www.newscientist.com/article/...

https://techhq.com/2023/04/biocompute...

[Butt One More Thing]

Bird nestling fecal sac / mucus membrane

https://www.audubon.org/news/what-are...

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/a...

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