Venus Flytraps Have Magnetic Fields
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Whenever charge flows, there will be magnetic fields. It's common for this to occur, because all known life uses ion channels in some way, and multicellular organisms do use electrical potential for internal signaling (such as nervous systems). Thus, the study of magnetic fields can be used to gain information about the state of an organism and scientists are now applying this to plants as well.
Also, apparently the author's the "Head of Publishing at Vice Media". Could explain why it wasn't cut during editing.
The salmon test was not made to prove that salomon exhibit post-death brain activity but that the correlations from the said experiment are of roughly as meaningful as many brainscan studies.
The new-age aspects of this article reminds me of this test ... except for lack of insight.
Would really suck to be the professional interviewed in this article.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S221137971...
"Sparks from Falling Water: Kelvin's Thunderstorm" Veritasium
>• A toaster’s magnetic field is 300,000 times more powerful than the human brain’s field
>• The Earth’s magnetic field is 2,000 times more powerful than a toaster’s field
Sorry all. Does this mean that I should be letting my toaster handle the difficult problems I encounter in my life? Up or down? Lighter or darker?
Is it now potentially true that the old saying "dumber than a box of rocks" is actually a high compliment?
Since I have a lot, too many actually, of fridge magnets picked up on various vacations over the years plastered to metallic objects around my workspace, am I surrounded by artificially super-intelligent placards that spend all their time waiting for a properly formed query before they excitedly initiate a life-changing brain dump of knowledge that I could gain from no other source?
This article was funny. I am going to use this to poke fun at my vegan relatives when they attack my decision to continue enjoying bacon, steak, and tendies.
Based solely on the name, which conjures images of the origin of the radiation that we propose to study and potentially to reduce, I propose that we should use this toaster:
I was with you until this part.
As an ordinary person, I got tired of hearing the back-and-forth discussions complete with subtle insults tossed at anyone who doesn't automatically toe the line that eating any animal products is bad while failing to acknowledge that plants may also have some level of situational awareness as a self-defense mechanism.
We have some great discussions about methane from cow farts, plants sending chemical signals to others to warn when you are mowing the grass, etc. Now I can add Venus Fly Traps with weakly magnetic fields that they generate when they slam the doors on unsuspecting insects.
I don't care whether you eat plants, animals, crayons, insects, or floor sweepings. I appreciate you not trying to impose your standards on me, demeaning my choices using arguments that only show your selection bias in how you define sentience in the plant and animal world. There's a lot we don't know about how things work on many scales and the science is fascinating.
You go ahead and eat your greens. I'll eat my mixed diet of meats, dairy products, fish, vegetables, fruits, nuts, and whatever else happens to make it past my lips. To each his own, it's all unknown. If dogs run free.
https://www.ted.com/talks/greg_gage_electrical_experiments_w...
Scientific af!