You've Been Slimed!

Hollywood horror flicks have captivated us with alien blobs, but the slime slithering on our own planet is as beguiling. From microscopic machines to life on ocean floors, new research reveals how essential slime is to life on Earth, and possibly other worlds.

Discover the new materials made from hagfish slime… the social life of a slime mold… and the threat posed by the gray goo of self-replicating nanobots.

Plus, it’s been 50 years since it first oozed across the screen: why there’s no escape from The Blob!

Listen to individual segments here:
Part 1 - Tori Hoeler
Part 2 - Douglas Fudge
Part 3 - John Tyler Bonner
Part 4 - Chris Phoenix
Part 5 - Andre Bormanis

You've Been Slimed! - Andre Bormanis

Part 5 of You've Been Slimed! featuring Andre Bormanis, television writer and producer, discussing the film The Blob.

Note: In this segment, seth laments that this film was never remade, but a listener pointed out that there was a remake in 1988 and we've since learned that another is planned for 2011.