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| secret_life_of_plants [2011-04-10 17:38] – [Latest Soviet Discoveries] cocky | secret_life_of_plants [2011-04-10 18:35] – [Pioneers of Plant Mysteries] cocky |
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| ==== Introduction ==== | ==== Introduction ==== |
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| <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="50" height="50" 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 |
| that the only reason we don't appreciate the fact is that plants do so at | that the only reason we don't appreciate the fact is that plants do so at |
| not moved, either toward the plant or toward the recording machine. | not moved, either toward the plant or toward the recording machine. |
| **Could the plant have been reading his mind**? | **Could the plant have been reading his mind**? |
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| related libarinth topic// [[plant perception]] | related libarynth topics:// |
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| | * [[groworld HPI ii]] |
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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="53" height="90" alt="Picture 21"></a></html>---film by Panishkin "Are Plants Sentient?" |
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| ---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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| related topic// Temporary photoElectric Digestopians in [[luminous:phoef]] | related topic// [[luminous:phoef]] |
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| <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>---the Bengali Sir Jagadis Chandra Bose in 1899 betook himself to his greengrocer and purchased a bag | <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="55" height="49" alt="Picture 19"></a></html>---the Bengali Sir Jagadis Chandra Bose in 1899 betook himself to his greengrocer and purchased a bag |
| of carrots and turnips, which, of all vegetables, appeared to him the most | of carrots and turnips, which, of all vegetables, appeared to him the most |
| stolidly nonsentient, and found them to be highly sensitive. When he | stolidly nonsentient, and found them to be highly sensitive. When he |
| the soil. Leaves turn to light because they are "heliotropic" or "phototropic." Roots questing water are described as "hydrotropic," and those | the soil. Leaves turn to light because they are "heliotropic" or "phototropic." Roots questing water are described as "hydrotropic," and those |
| bending against the flow of a stream "rheatropic." The tendril's touch | bending against the flow of a stream "rheatropic." The tendril's touch |
| is known as its "thigmotropism." Pg 99. related libarinth topic * [[plant movement]] | is known as its "thigmotropism." Pg 99. |
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| ---Bose now in retirement summud his scientific philosophy: | ---Bose now in retirement summud his scientific philosophy: |
| the plant's own signature.** | the plant's own signature.** |
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| | ==== The Metamorphosis of Plants ==== |
| | <html><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/foam/5603665460/" title="Picture 18 by _foam, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4106/5603665460_73b35efe55.jpg" width="75" height="50" alt="Picture 18"></a></html> |
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| === related libarynth topics === | === related libarynth topics === |
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