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Plants as Healers
Glass rendering of Marsh Marigold Harvard Natural History Museum Photo taken by Barbara Aspland-Wolf Science has demonstrated how plants...
Barbara Aspland-Wolf
Dec 1, 20231 min read
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Books for Your Shelf or Tablet
Do you know someone who loves science, botany, or biology? Don’t know what to give that person who has a house filled with beautiful...
Barbara Aspland-Wolf
Nov 1, 20231 min read
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Lynn Margulis and Others
Lynn Margulis and other intrepid scientists worked to uncover, prove, and change the way we look at the evolution of cells of all kinds.
Barbara Aspland-Wolf
Oct 2, 20232 min read
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Dr. Monica Gagliano
Monica Gagliano is doing amazing work with plant bioacoustics.
Barbara Aspland-Wolf
Sep 4, 20231 min read
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Dr. Paco Calvo
Have you heard of the Country Mouse and the City Mouse? In the tale, the city mouse is more savvy than the country mouse. When it comes...
Barbara Aspland-Wolf
Aug 8, 20232 min read
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Plant to Plant Communication
In a prior blog I spoke about the fact that the root brains of a plant can communicate with each other via electrical and chemical...
Barbara Aspland-Wolf
Jul 5, 20231 min read
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Sound and Pollination
I read an interesting article that said that plants can detect sound. A researcher from Tel Aviv University wondered if plants could...
Barbara Aspland-Wolf
Jun 1, 20231 min read
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Who is Using Their Brain?
Is a brain necessary for intelligence? Do brains have to look like that of a human or animal? What if we look at things differently? ...
Barbara Aspland-Wolf
May 1, 20232 min read
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The Eyes Have It
Sight is an interesting word. It can be defined as what we see or how we see. Sight can also be about perception of what we see as in...
Barbara Aspland-Wolf
Apr 3, 20232 min read
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Plant Senses
The nose knows and plants don’t have noses, but there are some fun photos of tree trunks that appear to have them. Can plants smell? ...
Barbara Aspland-Wolf
Mar 1, 20233 min read
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On Being--A Plant
On Being-A Plant Being, existence, living, life; these words all describe the same thing. The Oxford dictionary defines intelligence as...
Barbara Aspland-Wolf
Feb 1, 20232 min read
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Plant Pioneers
There are many who are researching how plants communicate with each other. Not out of a sense of down-grading human intelligence but to...
Barbara Aspland-Wolf
Jan 3, 20231 min read
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