View SmartyPlantsRadioLab Transcript (2).docx from CHEM 001A at Pasadena City College. ROBERT: Monica's work has actually gotten quite a bit of attention from other plant biologists. They're one of our closest relatives, actually. ANNIE: But I wonder if her using these metaphors ANNIE: is perhaps a very creative way of looking at -- looking at a plant, and therefore leads her to make -- make up these experiments that those who wouldn't think the way she would would ever make up. And if you don't have one, by default you can't do much in general. ROBERT: Yeah. So they figured out who paid for the murder. No question there. Smarty Plants Radiolab | Last.fm Read about Smarty Plants by Radiolab and see the artwork, lyrics and similar artists. But it was originally done with -- with a dog. Remember that the roots of these plants can either go one direction towards the sound of water in a pipe, or the other direction to the sound of silence. MONICA GAGLIANO: Picasso! Again, if you imagine that the pot, my experimental pot. And I know lots of kids do that, but I was especially ROBERT: I'm sorry? Episodes. And when you measure them, like one study we saw found up to seven miles of this little threading What is this thing? The fact that humans do it in a particular way, it doesn't mean that everyone needs to do it in that way to be able to do it in the first place. Take it. ALVIN UBELL: And the tree happens to be a weeping willow. Like, as in the fish. They secrete acid. JAD: And the plant still went to the place where the pipe was not even in the dirt? WHRO is Hampton Roads' local NPR / PBS Station. Yeah. So there seemed to be, under the ground, this fungal freeway system connecting one tree to the next to the next to the next. Apparently, bears park themselves in places and grab fish out of the water, and then, you know, take a bite and then throw the carcass down on the ground. Walker Wolff. But white, translucent and hairy, sort of. ROBERT: But after five days, she found that 80% of the time, the plants went -- or maybe chose -- to head toward the dry pipe that has water in it. If you get too wrapped up in your poetic metaphor, you're very likely to be misled and to over-interpret the data. It's definitely crazy. Ring, meat, eat. No question there. Okay? ROBERT: Apparently, bears park themselves in places and grab fish out of the water, and then, you know, take a bite and then throw the carcass down on the ground. On the fifth day, they take a look and discover most of the roots, a majority of the roots were heading toward the sound of water. A forest can feel like a place of great stillness and quiet. Little seatbelt for him for the ride down. MONICA GAGLIANO: And it's good it was Sunday. Of Accurate Building Inspectors. ROBERT: And for the meat substitute, she gave each plant little bit of food. Don't interrupt. I think there is something like a nervous system in the forest, because it's the same sort of large network of nodes sending signals to one another. It's kind of like a cold glass sitting on your desk, and there's always a puddle at the bottom. SUZANNE SIMARD: Jigs emerged. Here's the water.". So the -- this branching pot thing. And they're digging and digging and digging. And not too far away from this tree, underground, there is a water pipe. So it wasn't touching the dirt at all. That's a -- learning is something I didn't think plants could do. Ring, meat, eat. Well, some of them can first of all, and big deal. Why is this network even there? I know. JAD: Well, okay. They designed from scratch a towering parachute drop in blue translucent Lego pieces. ROBERT: Instead of eating the fungus, it turns out the fungus ate them. ROBERT: You don't know what your dog was? Yes, in a lot of cases it is the fungus. And right in the middle of the yard is a tree. JENNIFER FRAZER: One of the things they eat is fungus. Because if I let you go it's gonna be another 20 minutes until I get to talk. So ROBERT: He says something about that's the wrong season. However, if that's all they had was carbon That's Roy again. Liquid rocks. Never mind. One time, the plant literally flew out of the pot and upended with roots exposed. The plants -- the plants stopped -- what is it they did? The water is still in there. In 1997, a couple of scientists wrote a paper which describes how fungi Jennifer says that what the tubes do is they worm their way back and forth through the soil until they bump into some pebbles. Like, how can a plant -- how does a plant do that? It should have some. But they do have root hairs. ROY HALLING: It's just getting started. Enough of that! I don't know if you're a bank or if you're an -- so it's not necessarily saying, "Give it to the new guy." You just used a very interesting word. I'm a professor emeritus of plant biology at UC Santa Cruz. And the pea plants are left alone to sit in this quiet, dark room feeling the breeze. Or maybe slower? To remember? So that's where these -- the scientists from Princeton come in: Peter, Sharon and Aatish. So Pavlov started by getting some dogs and some meat and a bell. Because if I let you go it's gonna be another 20 minutes until I get to talk. They have to -- have to edit in this together. Pics! Salmon consumption. STEPHANIE TAM: Can the tree feel you ripping the roots out like that? SUZANNE SIMARD: We had a Geiger counter out there. You know, they talk about how honeybee colonies are sort of superorganisms, because each individual bee is sort of acting like it's a cell in a larger body. And when I came on the scene in 19 -- the 1980s as a forester, we were into industrial, large-scale clear-cutting in western Canada. So he brought them some meat. If you have this kind of license, then you are only allowed to grow up to that certain height; if . No matter how amazing I think that the results are, for some reason people just don't think plants are interesting. Different kind of signal traveling through the soil? Like trees of different species are supposed to fight each other for sunshine, right? It's about how plants learn, or adapt, or even listen, the way humans do (though scientists really don't seem to know how). Yeah, plants really like light, you know? SUZANNE SIMARD: Yeah. They would salivate and then eat the meat. Yeah. I mean, you're out there in the forest and you see all these trees, and you think they're individuals just like animals, right? ROBERT: These sensitive hairs he argues, would probably be able to feel that tiny difference. Handheld? And the plant still went to the place where the pipe was not even in the dirt? ROBERT: Oh, hunting for water. I think you can be open-minded but still objective. I don't know why you have problems with this. And so I was really excited. When we last left off, I'm just saying you just said intelligence. ROBERT: And then she waited a few more days and came back. LINCOLN TAIZ: I think you can be open-minded but still objective. That was my reaction. Reviews. Monica says what she does do is move around the world with a general feeling of What if? Now, it turns out that they're networked, and together they're capable of doing things, of behaviors, forestrial behaviors, that are deeply new. ROBERT: So let's go to the first. They're switched on. ], And Alvin Ubell. ROBERT: 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. JAD: That apparently -- jury's still out -- are going to make me rethink my stance on plants. Like what she saw in the outhouse? ], [JENNIFER FRAZER: Bethel Habte, Tracie Hunte, Matt Kielty ], [ALVIN UBELL: Matt Kielly. On one side, instead of the pipe with water, she attaches an MP3 player with a little speaker playing a recording of ROBERT: And then on the other side, Monica has another MP3 player with a speaker. JENNIFER FRAZER: And he would repeat this. Jennifer told Latif and I about another role that these fungi play. LARRY UBELL: You got somewhere to go? Do you really need a brain to sense the world around you? Do you really need a brain to sense the world around you? ALVIN UBELL: They would have to have some ROBERT: Maybe there's some kind of signal? You found exactly what the plants would do under your circumstances which were, I don't know, let's say a bit more tumultuous than mine. She thinks that they somehow remembered all those drops and it never hurt, so they didn't fold up any more. And so I designed this experiment to figure that out. Then we actually had to run four months of trials to make sure that, you know, that what we were seeing was not one pea doing it or two peas, but it was actually a majority. MONICA GAGLIANO: It's a very biased view that humans have in particular towards others. ANNIE: Yeah. ROBERT: Had indeed turned and moved toward the fan, stretching up their little leaves as if they were sure that at any moment now light would arrive. No. Is it, like -- is it a plant? And again. And so of course, that was only the beginning. I don't know if that was the case for your plants. Remember I told you how trees make sugar? Science writer Jen Frazer gave us the kind of the standard story. I mean, it's just -- it's reacting to things and there's a series of mechanical behaviors inside the plant that are just bending it in the direction. And Jigs at some point just runs off into the woods, just maybe to chase a rabbit. We were waiting for the leaves to, you know, stop folding. It was done by radiolab, called "smarty plants". Is that what -- is that what this? Oh, well that's a miracle. She made sure that the dirt didn't get wet, because she'd actually fastened the water pipe to the outside of the pot. MONICA GAGLIANO: Yeah, I know. These guys are actually doing it." MONICA GAGLIANO: Yeah, mimosa has been one of the pet plants, I guess, for many scientists for, like, centuries. ALVIN UBELL: You have to understand that the cold water pipe causes even a small amount of water to condense on the pipe itself. JENNIFER FRAZER: Yeah, it might run out of fuel. A little while back, I had a rather boisterous conversation with these two guys. Well, let us say you have a yard in front of your house. And it's good it was Sunday. And I met a plant biologist who's gonna lead that parade. There's not a leak in the glass. JENNIFER FRAZER: Well, maybe. Have you hugged your houseplant today? That is definitely cool. Wilderness Radio. ], [ROY HALLING: With help from Alexandra Leigh Young, Jackson Roach and Charu Sinha. So I don't have an issue with that. I'm gonna just go there. Let him talk. So we're really -- like this is -- we're really at the very beginning of this. ALVIN UBELL: The tree will wrap its roots around that pipe. They're called springtails, because a lot of them have a little organ on the back that they actually can kind of like deploy and suddenly -- boing! Handheld? Maybe each root is -- is like a little ear for the plant. And all of a sudden, one of them says, "Oh, oh, oh, oh! ROBERT: That's a -- learning is something I didn't think plants could do. ROBERT: So light is -- if you shine light on a plant you're, like, feeding it? I mean, couldn't it just be like that? And every day that goes by, I have less of an issue from the day before. And if you just touch it ROBERT: You can actually watch this cascade ROBERT: Where all the leaves close in, like do do do do do do. Kind of even like, could there be a brain, or could there be ears or, you know, just sort of like going off the deep end there. And I remember it was Sunday, because I started screaming in my lab. [ENRIQUE: This is Enrique Romero from the bordertown of Laredo, Texas. Artificial Plants Aquarium Substrate Backgrounds Gravel, Sand & Stones Live Plants Ornaments Plant Food & Fertilizers Heating & Lighting Heaters Hoods & Glass Canopies Heating & Lighting Accessories Lights Live Fish Goldfish, Betta & More Starter Kits bird Bird Shops Food & Treats Pet Bird Food Treats The fungus is hunting. On the fifth day, they take a look and discover most of the roots, a majority of the roots were heading toward the sound of water. All in all, turns out one tree was connected to 47 other trees all around it. If she's going to do this experiment, most likely she's going to use cold water. On the fifth day, they take a look and discover most of the roots, a majority of the roots were heading toward the sound of water. She made sure that the dirt didn't get wet, because she'd actually fastened the water pipe to the outside of the pot. And so we are under the impression or I would say the conviction that the brain is the center of the universe, and -- and if you have a brain and a nervous system you are good and you can do amazing stuff. But we are in the home inspection business. ROBERT: Connecting your house to the main city water line that's in the middle of the street. But maybe it makes her sort of more open-minded than -- than someone who's just looking at a notebook. No. And so we're digging away, and Jigs was, you know, looking up with his paws, you know, and looking at us, waiting. Just for example JENNIFER FRAZER: Let's say it's -- times are good. SUZANNE SIMARD: And, you know, my job was to track how these new plantations would grow. And not too far away from this tree, underground, there is a water pipe. Or maybe slower? That's a parade I'll show up for. And what we found was that the trees that were the biggest and the oldest were the most highly connected. Actually that's good advice for anyone. We were waiting for the leaves to, you know, stop folding. And if you don't have one, by default you can't do much in general. So it's not that it couldn't fold up, it's just that during the dropping, it learned that it didn't need to. I remember going in at the uni on a Sunday afternoon. JENNIFER FRAZER: Yeah. And if you go to too many rock concerts, you can break these hairs and that leads to permanent hearing loss, which is bad. I mean, I think there's something to that. He gives us a magnifying glass. ROBERT: And look, and beyond that there are forests, there are trees that the scientists have found where up to 75 percent of the nitrogen in the tree turns out to be fish food. And his idea was to see if he could condition these dogs to associate that food would be coming from the sound of a bell. ROBERT: Oh, so this is, like, crucial. It's doing like a triple double axel backflip or something into the sky. ], Our fact-checkers are Eva Dasher and Michelle Harris. It's okay. JAD: The part where the water pipe was, the pipe was on the outside of the pot? They run out of energy. It's time -- time for us to go and lie down on the soft forest floor. It's like a bank? Is that what -- is that what this? Yeah, absolutely. SUZANNE SIMARD: We're sitting on the exposed root system, which is like -- it is like a mat. And the salivation equivalent was the tilt of the plant? ], Radiolab was created by Jad Abumrad and is produced by Soren Wheeler. They're one of our closest relatives, actually. Turns the fan on, turns the light on, and the plant turns and leans that way. JENNIFER FRAZER: Apparently, she built some sort of apparatus. I mean the fungus is JENNIFER FRAZER: No, no, no. So what does the tree do? Smarty Plants. Gone. [laughs]. This is the plant and pipe mystery. OUR PODCASTSSUPPORT US Smarty Plants LISTEN Download February 13, 2018 ( Robert Krulwich I think that's fair. ROBERT: What kind of minerals does a tree need? I think there is something like a nervous system in the forest, because it's the same sort of large network of nodes sending signals to one another. That's the place where I can remember things. On our knees with our noses in the ground, and we can't see anything. Would you say that the plant is seeing the sun? 46 7. We were so inconsistent, so clumsy, that the plants were smart to keep playing it safe and closing themselves up. So it's not that it couldn't fold up, it's just that during the dropping, it learned that it didn't need to. ROBERT: Monica says what she does do is move around the world with a general feeling of ROBERT: What if? Hi. Both aiming at the pea plant from the same direction, and the pea plant leans toward them. Or maybe slower? So otherwise they can't photosynthesize. And so they have this trading system with trees. ROBERT: She says it was like this moment where she realizes, "Oh, my God! Why waste hot water? Hopefully I tied that into cannabis well enough to not get removed. It is like a bank! Couple minutes go by And all of a sudden we could hear this barking and yelping. The point here is that the scale of this is so vast, and we didn't know this until very, very recently. LATIF: Yeah. Never mind. So Monica moves the fans to a new place one more time. JAD: Couldn't it just be an entirely different interpretation here? Crossposted by 4 years ago. ROBERT: So you are related and you're both in the plumbing business? It was like, Oh, I might disturb my plants!" 2018. It's an integral part of DNA. Wait a second. They're called feeder roots. Now, you might think that the plant sends out roots in every direction. LARRY UBELL: We are the principals of Accurate Building Inspectors of Brooklyn, New York. JAD: But still. ROBERT: All right, that's it, I think. I can scream my head off if I want to. And so we, you know, we've identified these as kind of like hubs in the network. JENNIFER FRAZER: I am the blogger of The Artful Amoeba at Scientific American. Like, would they figure it out faster this time? They may have this intelligence, maybe we're just not smart enough yet to figure it out. JENNIFER FRAZER: Well, maybe. I thought okay, so this is just stupid. Why waste hot water? Oh, so it says to the newer, the healthier trees, "Here's my food. No boink anymore. Which has, you know, for dogs has nothing to do with meat. So maybe the root hairs, which are always found right at the growing tips of plant roots, maybe plant roots are like little ears. And the -- I'm gonna mix metaphors here, the webs it weaves. And so we're up there in this -- in this old forest with this guy. They can also send warning signals through the fungus. Birds. That would be sugar-minerals-sugar-minerals-sugar-minerals-sugar-minerals-sugar-minerals-sugar-minerals-sugar-minerals-sugar-minerals. MONICA GAGLIANO: Would the plant do the same? The whole thing immediately closes up and makes it look like, "Oh, there's no plant here. Like so -- and I think that, you know, the whole forest then, there's an intelligence there that's beyond just the species. Isn't -- doesn't -- don't professors begin to start falling out of chairs when that word gets used regarding plants? You need the nutrients that are in the soil. ], Test the outer edges of what you think you know. So its resources, its legacy will move into the mycorrhizal network into neighboring trees. That's okay. And I need a bird, a lot of birds, actually. Dedicated to enhancing the lives of the citizens in the communities it serves by responding to their need to be engaged, educated, entertained & enlightened. SUZANNE SIMARD: It's just this incredible communications network that, you know, people had no idea about in the past, because we couldn't -- didn't know how to look. SUZANNE SIMARD: Well, when I was a kid, my family spent every summer in the forest. And for the meat substitute, she gave each plant little bit of food. JAD: What exchange would that be, Robert? MONICA GAGLIANO: Yeah. Like the bell for the dog. Well, it depends on who you ask. If you look at these particles under the microscope, you can see the little tunnels. ROBERT: Okay. So you think that that this -- you think this is a hubris corrector? It was magic for me. I mean, Jigs was part of the family. ROBERT: And on this particular day, she's with the whole family. I'm 84. Or even learn? And then they did experiments with the same fungus that I'm telling you about that was capturing the springtails, and they hooked it up to a tree. We're sitting on the exposed root system, which is like -- it is like a mat. ROBERT: A tree needs something else. Fan, light, lean. It's now the Wood Wide Web? ANNIE MCEWEN: What was your reaction when you saw this happen? To remember? I mean, you've heard that. ROBERT: I have even -- I can go better than even that. The light and the fan were always coming from the same direction. He's the only springtail with a trench coat and a fedora. And so I was really excited. MONICA GAGLIANO: I don't know. Can Robert get Jad tojoin the march? Landing very comfortably onto a padded base made of foam. MONICA GAGLIANO: And it's good it was Sunday. That's the place where I remember things. Sep 28, 2020 - Radiolab is on a curiosity bender. And all of a sudden, one of them says, "Oh, oh, oh, oh! You got somewhere to go? Ring, meat, eat. But now we know, after having looked at their DNA, that fungi are actually very closely related to animals. Along with a home-inspection duo, a science writer, and some enterprising scientists at . ROBERT: This final thought. So you just did what Pavlov did to a plant. When they did this, they saw that a lot of the springtails that had the tubes inside them were still alive. ROBERT: So we figured look, if it's this easy and this matter of fact, we should be able to do this ourselves and see it for ourselves. ROBERT: That there was a kind of a moral objection to thinking it this way. And then they do stuff. They sort of put them all together in a dish, and then they walked away. There's -- on the science side, there's a real suspicion of anything that's anthropomorphizing a plant. And again. I do want to go back, though, to -- for something like learning, like, I don't understand -- learning, as far as I understand it, is something that involves memory and storage. Ring, meat, eat. I don't know yet. I think there are some cases where romanticizing something could possibly lead you to some interesting results. ROBERT: It's kind of -- it's shaped like MONICA GAGLIANO: Like the letter Y, but upside down. Just read about plants having brains and doing things that we honestly do not expect them. ROBERT: I wanted to talk to them because, as building inspectors they -- there's something they see over and over and over. Close. JAD: And is it as dramatic in the opposite direction? And it's more expensive. But the drop was just shocking and sudden enough for the little plant to Do its reflex defense thing. ROBERT: So she takes the plants, she puts them into the parachute drop, she drops them. Just a boring set of twigs. They would salivate and then eat the meat. ALVIN UBELL: In a tangling of spaghetti-like, almost a -- and each one of those lines of spaghetti is squeezing a little bit. Yours is back of your house, but let's make it in the front. And it was almost like, let's see how much I have to stretch it here before you forget. However, if that's all they had was carbon ROBERT: That's Roy again. But let me just -- let me give it a try. So they figured out who paid for the murder. They're all out in the forest. So we figured look, if it's this easy and this matter of fact, we should be able to do this ourselves and see it for ourselves. ROBERT: So the roots can go either left or to the right. Hi. I mean, it's just -- it's reacting to things and there's a series of mechanical behaviors inside the plant that are just bending it in the direction. Wait. Transcript. It's a very interesting experiment, and I really want to see whether it's correct or not. There was some kind of benefit from the birch to the fur. The plants would always grow towards the light. But she had a kind of, maybe call it a Jigs-ian recollection. MONICA GAGLIANO: I purposely removed the chance for a moisture gradient. JAD: That apparently -- jury's still out. When they did this, they saw that a lot of the springtails that had the tubes inside them were still alive. I'll put it down in my fungi. But instead of dogs, she had pea plants in a dark room. MONICA GAGLIANO: Yeah, tested it in my lab. ROBERT: And she goes on to argue that had we been a little bit more steady and a little bit more consistent, the plants would have learned and would have remembered the lesson. ROBERT: He's got lots of questions about her research methods, but really his major complaint is -- is her language. And not too far away from this tree, underground, there is a water pipe. And after not a whole lot of drops the plant, she noticed, stopped closing its leaves. They may have this intelligence, maybe we're just not smart enough yet to figure it out. LARRY UBELL: Yes, we are related. Yeah. Well, I created these horrible contraptions. It's okay, puppy. 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