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Wow that's my favorite song
Yoko Ono presents: plant jams #2
They pop and snap, calling that "screaming" is a bit sensationalist.
This is the kind of headline that hearkens the anti-vegetarians to claim nonsense arguments. "Plants scream when you cut them, so that means you're a hypocrite because you're hurting plants. Just look at this paper that says so!"
I bet that wet brick sounds in a different way than a dry one.
You mean dry bricks scream in agony!
So YOU mean the wet bricks scream with … pleasure?
I recall in college about 14 years ago we spoke about the electric impulses in plants and how they change in reaction to stress
I was thinking about pop science headlines in the nineties, maybe even earlier.
Checkmate vegetarians. ;)
"in not vegetarian because I love animals. I'm vegetarian because I hate plants"
“The salad is screaming” has been a notion for decades.
Also, the Jains have entered the chat.
I thought they found this over a decade ago?
Research has to be repeatable
I think the thing from a decade ago was about them emitting chemical messages through transpiration. Nova did a piece where transpiration and the fungal network in the soil were reconsidered as a whole communication system. I recall it was popularized using the same "scream" terminology in pop-sci rags.
Nah, it was the same thing, just 8 years ago I guess. This is an article from after I must have caught the paper: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/scientists-record-stressed-out-plants-emitting-ultrasonic-squeals-180973716/
Now it's reproducible bullshit.
Now I want to hook up a mic to my succulents and run a local ML model on a raspberry pi to water it.
Don't water your Raspberry Pi.
Yeah, you're supposed to bake pie
They, too, are aware of the state of the world.
I've known about the Screaming Trees for decades.
Unfortunately, Mark passed away. One of the best. Ever. I saw him in Olympia a year or so before he died. Great show, but the man was nearly blind and looked pretty exhausted at the end. He hung out in the lobby signing stuff, must have talked to a hundred fans.
Finally, a reason to consider vegetarianism
If trees could scream, would we be so cavalier about cutting them down?
Old news
Except then it was without machine learning.
Decades old.
They discovered this in the 70's. Lyall Watson's Supernature documented plant reactions, even when cutting a leaf taken from the plant. It may not have been the most rigorous science, I don't know. But it did encourage thinking outside the box for ways to attempt to learn about the natural world.
Sounds like popping bubble wrap, or popcorn.
Checkmate, vegans