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Thursday, February 2, 2012

Andy's Science Corner: Plant Music

It was the 1970s, a time when a more earth conscious public pursued an interest in the feelings and emotions of plants. In 1973, Dorothy Retallack reported in her book The Sound of Music and Plants that plants did in fact feel emotions not unlike humans and animals. Using three separate laboratories at the Colorado Women's College in Denver, Retallack would play three different kinds of music to three of the same plant species. Rock music made them sick! And then some guys made plant records. Fuck you plants!


Credits to Nicholas Gazin for reminding me of this strange time that I wasn't born in.

3 comments:

  1. It was the 1970s, a time when gentle assholes in corduroy earth tones pursued an interest in the feelings and emotions of plants.
    My next album: Music That Kills Plants... Instantly!

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  2. PS the second video is Stevie Wonder.

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  3. Billy Miller has the plant record on his personal shelves. True story.

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