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-====== The Secret life of Plants ====== +====== The Secret Life of Plants ======
  
 **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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-=== ESP, or extrasensory perception ===+==== ESP, or extrasensory perception ==== 
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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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-=== Latest Soviet Discoveries ===+==== Latest Soviet Discoveries ==== 
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 <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?" <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?"
  
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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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-=== pioneers of plant mysteries ===+==== Pioneers of Plant Mysteries ====
  
-<html><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/foam/5603665558/" title="Picture 19 by _foam, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5107/5603665558_842f68afa0.jpg" width="73" height="49" alt="Picture 19"></a></html> 
  
 +<html><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/foam/5603665558/" title="Picture 19 by _foam, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5107/5603665558_842f68afa0.jpg" width="73" height="49" alt="Picture 19"></a></html>
  
  
 +=== related libarynth topics ===
 +  * [[plant perception]]
 +  * [[plant movement]]
 +  * [[HPI]]
  
  
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