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Rec: What Plants Talk About
Jun. 11th, 2013 10:30 pmI don't do a lot of recommendations here, but this is so relevant to my interests I wanted to mention it.
Nature: What Plants Talk About
It's a PBS program with a fascinating perspective on the way plants interact with their environment. The plant ecologist JC Cahill attributes agency to plants in a way we usually shy away from. It reminded me a little of the way Michael Pollan described the plant-human relationship in The Botany of Desire, but this just focuses on the plants.
The full program is streaming online if you're in the US or territories.
It's a PBS program with a fascinating perspective on the way plants interact with their environment. The plant ecologist JC Cahill attributes agency to plants in a way we usually shy away from. It reminded me a little of the way Michael Pollan described the plant-human relationship in The Botany of Desire, but this just focuses on the plants.
When we think about plants, we don’t often associate a term like “behavior” with them, but experimental plant ecologist JC Cahill wants to change that. The University of Alberta professor maintains that plants do behave and lead anything but solitary and sedentary lives. What Plants Talk About teaches us all that plants are smarter and much more interactive than we thought!
The full program is streaming online if you're in the US or territories.
