Month: September 2022

A very soft fiber resistant to mites. View in LinkedIn

MEMORY BASIS. "All memory functions have molecular bases, namely in signal reception and transduction, and in storage and recall of information. Thus, at all levels of organisation living organisms have some kind of memory." https://lnkd.in/didU-Wa View in LinkedIn

PLANT MEMORY. "In plants one may distinguish two types. There are linear pathways from reception of signals and propagation of effectors to a type of memory that may be described by terms such as learning, habituation or priming." http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1438-8677.2012.00674.x/abstract View in LinkedIn

PLANT MEMORY CIRCUITS. "There is a storage and recall memory based on a complex network of elements with a high degree of integration and feedback. The most important elements envisaged are calcium waves, epigenetic modifications of DNA and histones, and regulation of timing via a biological clock." http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1438-8677.2012.00674.x/abstract View in LinkedIn

TWO TYPES. "Experiments are described that document the occurrence of the two sorts of memory and which show how they can be distinguished." http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1438-8677.2012.00674.x/abstract View in LinkedIn

HUMAN ANESTHETICS freeze plant responses. Denis Noble thinks that anesthetics are a key to consciousness. Probably worth serious investigation. http://flip.it/C6ycdL View in LinkedIn

SO ENDS a lengthy sojourn into the work on plant intelligence. Once a taboo subject, it has probably moved to much into the mainstream and has been taken over by the woo-woo crowd. But this is a very important topic. I recently spoke to a woman who still thinks that plants are little different than Chinese plastic decorations, an equally mainstream thought, I fear. Because plants are so different from animals they are hard to understand, and surely anything who does not resemble us is destined to a secondary status. View in LinkedIn

Iron veins in local stone. View in LinkedIn

A NEW SECTION STARTS on the subject of the biology and ecology of clouds. This layer of planet Earth is just a fluffy blanket, and for centuries we considered it to be as sterile as mother’s milk, but both assumptions turned out wrong. Life ‘will find a way’, is a famous quote from Jurassic Park. We have only just started to scratch the surface of microbial life, which seems to have no limits for its habitats. The door is opening in surprising ways. View in LinkedIn

CLOUDS. Every time I fly, I am impressed by the cloudscapes, and their orderly forms composed of disorderly vapor molecules. It is a grand self-assembly of innate materials, following some rigid physical laws. Given that weather systems are infinitely chaotic on one level, why do we have only ~100 cloud types? https://lnkd.in/dxRTsaW View in LinkedIn