Ring, meat, eat. Radiolab. MONICA GAGLIANO: Not really. LATIF: It's like Snow White and The Seven Tubes or something. This assignment pairs with the RadioLab podcast; specifically the Smarty Plants episode. I mean again, it's a tree. LINCOLN TAIZ: Yes. ROBERT: What happened to you didn't happen to us. The glass is not broken. MONICA GAGLIANO: So, you know, I'm in the dark. And after not a whole lot of drops, the plant, she noticed, stopped closing its leaves. PETER LANDGREN: Look at that. Yes, we are related. And I've been in the construction industry ever since I'm about 16 years old. ROBERT: His name is Roy Halling. So what they're saying is even if she's totally sealed the pipe so there's no leak at all, the difference in temperature will create some condensation on the outside. What's its job? Like a human would. Then she takes the little light and the little fan and moves them to the other side of the plant. Take it. She's done three experiments, and I think if I tell you about what she has done, you -- even you -- will be provoked into thinking that plants can do stuff you didn't imagine, dream they could do. JENNIFER FRAZER: From a particular direction. ROBERT: Truth is, I think on this point she's got a -- she's right. How much longer? Tubes. ROBERT: We, as you know, built your elevator. No, I guess that I feel kind of good to say this. MONICA GAGLIANO: Picasso, enough of that now. LARRY UBELL: I'm not giving my age. If you look at a root under a microscope, what you see is all these thousands of feelers like hairs on your head looking for water. JAD: The part where the water pipe was, the pipe was on the outside of the pot? These guys are actually doing it." So she decided to conduct her experiment. JENNIFER FRAZER: So what do we have in our ears that we use to hear sound? ROBERT: Now the plants if they were truly dumb, they'd go 50/50. /locations/california/culver-city/5399-sepulveda-blvd-bank-atm/ Fan, light, lean. The problem is is with plants. And she says she began to notice things that, you know, one wouldn't really expect. Different kind of signal traveling through the soil? This is like metaphor is letting in the light as opposed to shutting down the blinds. But what -- how would a plant hear something? JAD: So you couldn't replicate what she saw. And I mean, like, really loved the outdoors. This is Ashley Harding from St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada. And they're digging and digging and digging. 2016. ROBERT: Then she placed the fan right next to the light so that MONICA GAGLIANO: The light and the fan were always coming from the same direction. So after much trial and error with click and hums and buzzes She found that the one stimulus that would be perfect was A little fan. Like for example, my plants were all in environment-controlled rooms, which is not a minor detail. Like for example, my plants were all in environment-controlled rooms, which is not a minor detail. They're not experiencing extra changes, for example. Picasso! Also thanks to Christy Melville and to Emerald O'Brien and to Andres O'Hara and to Summer Rayne. It seems like a no-brainer to me (pardon the unintentional pun) that they would have some very different ways of doing things similar to what animals do. I'm a professor emeritus of plant biology at UC Santa Cruz. Let him talk. Monica thought about that and designed a different experiment. So she decided to conduct her experiment. Yeah. Have you hugged your houseplant today? SUZANNE SIMARD: Well, when I was a kid, my family spent every summer in the forest. So light is -- if you shine light on a plant you're, like, feeding it? And it's that little, little bit of moisture that the plant will somehow sense. I just listened to this Radiolab episode called "Smarty Plants". So its resources, its legacy will move into the mycorrhizal network into neighboring trees. Would you say that the plant is seeing the sun? ANNIE MCEWEN: What was your reaction when you saw this happen? Along with a home-inspection duo, a science writer, and some enterprising . And then they came back JENNIFER FRAZER: And they found that most of the springtails were dead. This is the plant and pipe mystery. So they just went right for the MP3 fake water, not even the actual water? No. Well of course, there could be a whole -- any number of reasons why, you know, one tree's affected by another. And then I needed to -- the difficulty I guess, of the experiment was to find something that will be quite irrelevant and really meant nothing to the plant to start with. ROBERT: So we strapped in our mimosa plant. You need the nutrients that are in the soil. And so I don't have a problem with that. I'm not gonna tell you. MONICA GAGLIANO: So then at one point, when you only play the bell for the dog, or you, you know, play the fan for the plant, we know now for the dogs, the dogs is expecting. And then Monica would ROBERT: Just about, you know, seven or eight inches. I was like, "Oh, my God! There's -- on the science side, there's a real suspicion of anything that's anthropomorphizing a plant. JENNIFER FRAZER: The whole thing immediately closes up and makes it look like, "Oh, there's no plant here. Seasonally. ROBERT: In the Richard Attenborough version, if you want to look on YouTube, he actually takes a nail RICHARD ATTENBOROUGH: This pin will give you an idea. No, so for example, lignin is important for making a tree stand up straight. MONICA GAGLIANO: I created these horrible contraptions. 46 7. LARRY UBELL: It's not leaking. And then Monica would ROBERT: Just about, you know, seven or eight inches. They don't do well in warm temperatures and their needles turn all sickly yellow. She thinks that they somehow remembered all those drops and it never hurt, so they didn't fold up any more. SUZANNE SIMARD: Yes, that seems to be what happens. ]. Or even learn? Or it's just the vibration of the pipe that's making it go toward it. I think you can be open-minded but still objective. It involves a completely separate organism I haven't mentioned yet. Monica thought about that and designed a different experiment. I mean, it's a kind of romanticism, I think. Again. That's a -- learning is something I didn't think plants could do. They don't do well in warm temperatures and their needles turn all sickly yellow. I don't know if that was the case for your plants. My reaction was like, "Oh ****!" It's about how plants learn, or adapt, or even listen, the way humans do (though scientists really don't seem to know how). And it was almost like, let's see how much I have to stretch it here before you forget. ROBERT: They're sort of flea-sized and they spend lots of time munching leaves on the forest floor. To try to calculate how much springtail nitrogen is traveling back to the tree. That is definitely cool. He's holding his hand maybe a foot off the ground. They're switched on. I'm 84. How much longer? I mean, can you remember what you were doing a month ago? But maybe it makes her sort of more open-minded than -- than someone who's just looking at a notebook. Enough of that! It involves a completely separate organism I haven't mentioned yet. And then all of a sudden, she says she looks down into the ground and she notices all around them where the soil has been cleared away there are roots upon roots upon roots in this thick, crazy tangle. There was some kind of benefit from the birch to the fur. JAD: We've all seen houseplants do that, right? He's on the right track. We were so inconsistent, so clumsy, that the plants were smart to keep playing it safe and closing themselves up. ROBERT: And the classic case of this is if you go back a few centuries ago, someone noticed that plants have sex. Well, it depends on who you ask. LARRY UBELL: We are the principals of Accurate Building Inspectors of Brooklyn, New York. So that's where these -- the scientists from Princeton come in: Peter, Sharon and Aatish. You have to understand that the cold water pipe causes even a small amount of water to condense on the pipe itself. But they do have root hairs. It's okay, puppy. by Radiolab Follow. Then he would bring them the meat and he would ring a bell. In the state of California, a medicinal marijuana cultivation license allows for the cultivation of up to 99 plants. They're sort of flea-sized and they spend lots of time munching leaves on the forest floor. ROBERT: I don't think Monica knows the answer to that, but she does believe that, you know, that we humans MONICA GAGLIANO: We are a little obsessed with the brain. And she goes into that darkened room with all the pea plants. I know. ROY HALLING: The last kind of part of the root gets tangled just around the edge. I mean, I think there's something to that. ROBERT: So let's go to the first. Playing via SpotifyPlaying via YouTube Playback options Listening on Switch Spotify device Open in Spotify Web Player They can go north, south, east, west, whatever. Is that what -- is that what this? So he brought them some meat. JENNIFER FRAZER: With when they actually saw and smelled and ate meat. MONICA GAGLIANO: Exactly. Peering down at the plants under the red glow of her headlamp. ], [JENNIFER FRAZER: With help from Amanda Aronczyk, Shima Oliaee ], [LARRY UBELL: Niles Hughes, Jake Arlow, Nigar Fatali ], [JENNIFER FRAZER: Phoebe Wang and Katie Ferguson. So I don't have a problem. JENNIFER FRAZER: It's definitely crazy. Well, I asked Suzanne about that. Because after dropping them 60 times, she then shook them left to right and they instantly folded up again. And then I needed to -- the difficulty I guess, of the experiment was to find something that will be quite irrelevant and really meant nothing to the plant to start with. I mean, Jigs was part of the family. When you go into a forest, you see a tree, a tall tree. We were so inconsistent, so clumsy, that the plants were smart to keep playing it safe and closing themselves up. The idea was to drop them again just to see, like, the difference between the first time you learn something and the next time. No. The Douglas fir became diseased and -- and died. ROBERT: And then those little tubes will wrap themselves into place. ROBERT: And then she waited a few more days and came back. And so I designed this experiment to figure that out. And is it as dramatic in the opposite direction? So they followed the sound of the barking and it leads them to an outhouse. 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