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 **The Secret Life of Plants: by Peter Tompkins and Christopher Bird, 1973** **The Secret Life of Plants: by Peter Tompkins and Christopher Bird, 1973**
  
-[[reading_notes]] by [[Cocky_Eek]]+[[reading_notes]] by [[Cocky_Eek]] //in progress//
  
-=== Introduction ===+==== Introduction ==== 
 + 
  <html><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/foam/5603591016/" title="Picture 5 by _foam, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5150/5603591016_dd7d797391_s.jpg" width="75" height="75" alt="Picture 5"></a></html>---At the beginning of the twentieth century Viennese biologist   <html><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/foam/5603591016/" title="Picture 5 by _foam, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5150/5603591016_dd7d797391_s.jpg" width="75" height="75" alt="Picture 5"></a></html>---At the beginning of the twentieth century Viennese biologist 
 Raoul Francé put forth the idea, shocking to contemporary natural philosophers, that plants move their bodies as freely, easily, and gracefully as the most skilled animal or human, and  Raoul Francé put forth the idea, shocking to contemporary natural philosophers, that plants move their bodies as freely, easily, and gracefully as the most skilled animal or human, and 
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 **Could the plant have been reading his mind**? **Could the plant have been reading his mind**?
  
 +-------------------------------
  
  
  
-=== ESP, or extrasensory perception ===+ 
 +==== ESP, or extrasensory perception ==== 
 +  
    
  
-<html><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/foam/5603665616/" title="Picture 20 by _foam, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5183/5603665616_800acb1622.jpg" width="50" height="125" alt="Picture 20"></a></html>---"Luminescence in Liquids and Solids and Their Practical Application" by Marcel Vogel. He developed +<html><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/foam/5603665616/" title="Picture 20 by _foam, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5183/5603665616_800acb1622.jpg" width="50" height="110" alt="Picture 20"></a></html>---"Luminescence in Liquids and Solids and Their Practical Application" by Marcel Vogel. He developed 
 a variety of new products: the red color seen on television screens;  a variety of new products: the red color seen on television screens; 
 fluorescent crayons; tags for insecticides; a "black light" inspection kit  fluorescent crayons; tags for insecticides; a "black light" inspection kit 
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 wife, proclaimed that all living cells produce an invisible radiation. wife, proclaimed that all living cells produce an invisible radiation.
  
----Since glass and gelatin are known to block various ultraviolet  
-frequencies on the electromagnetic spectrum. 
-them. Pg 54 
  
 ---1969. Lawrence; Four main questions, were starting to attract serious ---1969. Lawrence; Four main questions, were starting to attract serious
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 and, most important, a genuine love for plants."  Pg 57 and, most important, a genuine love for plants."  Pg 57
  
-=== Latest Soviet Discoveries === +---------------------- 
-<html><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/foam/5603081691/" title="Picture 21 by _foam, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5228/5603081691_bd6820b484.jpg" width="318" height="366" alt="Picture 21"></a></html>---film by Panishkin "Are Plants Sentient?"+ 
 +==== Latest Soviet Discoveries ==== 
 +  
 +<html><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/foam/5603081691/" title="Picture 21 by _foam, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5228/5603081691_bd6820b484.jpg" width="73" height="110" alt="Picture 21"></a></html>---film by Panishkin "Are Plants Sentient?"
  
 ---biologist Karamanov published "**The Application of Automation and Cybernetics to Plant Husbandry.**" He builded a.o. microthermistors, weight tensiometers, to register the temperature of plants, the flow rate of fluid in their stems ---biologist Karamanov published "**The Application of Automation and Cybernetics to Plant Husbandry.**" He builded a.o. microthermistors, weight tensiometers, to register the temperature of plants, the flow rate of fluid in their stems
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 ---research of the American Nobel Prize winner Melvin Calvin in photo·  ---research of the American Nobel Prize winner Melvin Calvin in photo· 
-synthesis, wherein he discovered that **plant chlorophyll under the influ-  +synthesis, wherein he discovered that **plant chlorophyll under the influence of the sun's rays can give up electrons to a semiconductor such as  
-ence of the sun's rays can give up electrons to a semiconductor such as  +zincoxide**. Melvin and his co-workers created a "green photoelement," 
-zinc oxide**. Melvin and his co-workers created a "green photoelement," +
 which produced a current of approximately 0.1 microamperes per square  which produced a current of approximately 0.1 microamperes per square 
 centimeter. After several minutes, the plant  centimeter. After several minutes, the plant 
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 silicone solar batteries now being experimented with.  Pg 76 silicone solar batteries now being experimented with.  Pg 76
  
-=== pioneers of plant mysteries ===+----------------------------------------------------------------------- 
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 + 
 +==== Pioneers of Plant Mysteries ==== 
  
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