Have you hugged your houseplant today? 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. It's doing like a triple double axel backflip or something into the sky. The bell, the meat and the salivation. No. This is like metaphor is letting in the light as opposed to shutting down the blinds. And she says she began to notice things that, you know, one wouldn't really expect. You give me -- like, I want wind, birds, chipmunks JAD: Like, I'm not, like, your sound puppet here. So this Wood Wide Web, is this just, like, the roots? From Tree to Shining Tree. This is the headphones? Like trees of different species are supposed to fight each other for sunshine, right? Like, the tree was, like, already doing that stuff by itself, but it's the fungus that's doing that stuff? JAD: From just bears throwing fish on the ground? Is that what -- is that what this? JAD: But still. Imagine towering trees to your left and to your right. So otherwise they can't photosynthesize. How does it know which way to turn and grow its roots so that it can find the water? You know, it goes back to anthropomorphizing plant behaviors. Because the only reason why the experiment turned out to be 28 days is because I ran out of time. I mean, what? And I've been in the construction industry ever since I'm about 16 years old. And so of course, that was only the beginning. He's holding his hand maybe a foot off the ground. That's a parade I'll show up for. And the classic case of this is if you go back a few centuries ago, someone noticed that plants have sex. ROBERT: So for three days, three times a day, she would shine these little blue lights on the plants. He says something about that's the wrong season. ROBERT: Then of course because it's the BBC, they take a picture of it. Truth is, I think on this point she's got a -- she's right. You do. The fungi, you know, after it's rained and snowed and the carcass has seeped down into the soil a bit, the fungi then go and they drink the salmon carcass down and then send it off to the tree. She's not gonna use hot water because you don't want to cook your plants, you know? ROBERT: Smaller than an eyelash. And so why is that? She's not gonna use hot water because you don't want to cook your plants, you know? They have to -- have to edit in this together. One tree goes "Uh-oh." Minerals from the soil. SUZANNE SIMARD: And so my mom always talks about how she had to constantly be giving me worm medicine because I was -- I always had worms. 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. 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. 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. Plants are complex and ancient organisms. ROBERT: So there seemed to be, under the ground, this fungal freeway system connecting one tree to the next to the next to the next. They're switched on. 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. Like, I say, it's early in the season. And it was almost like, let's see how much I have to stretch it here before you forget. ], Radiolab was created by Jad Abumrad and is produced by Soren Wheeler. JENNIFER FRAZER: Then he would bring them the meat and he would ring a bell. They curve, sometimes they branch. The part where the water pipe was, the pipe was on the outside of the pot? LINCOLN TAIZ: Yes. JENNIFER FRAZER: The fungus has this incredible network of tubes that it's able to send out through the soil, and draw up water and mineral nutrients that the tree needs. It just kept curling and curling. They're sort of flea-sized and they spend lots of time munching leaves on the forest floor. MONICA GAGLIANO: Yeah, mimosa has been one of the pet plants, I guess, for many scientists for, like, centuries. JAD: Wait. LARRY UBELL: Yeah, and I have done inspections where roots were coming up through the pipe into the house. We need to take a break first, but when we come back, the parade that I want you to join will come and swoop you up and carry you along in a flow of enthusiasm. JAD: The thing I don't get is in animals, the hairs in our ear are sending the signals to a brain and that is what chooses what to do. Along with a home-inspection duo, a science writer, and some enterprising scientists at Princeton University, we dig into the work of evolutionary ecologist Monica Gagliano, who turns our brain-centered worldview on its head through a series of clever experiments that show plants doing things we never would've imagined. 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. And the salivation equivalent was the tilt of the plant? I don't think Monica knows the answer to that, but she does believe that, you know, that we humans We are a little obsessed with the brain. MONICA GAGLIANO: The idea was to drop them again just to see, like, the difference between the first time you learn something and the next time. ROBERT: No, no, no, no, no. Thanks to Jennifer Frazer who helped us make sense of all this. You just used a very interesting word. All right, that's it, I think. But also SUZANNE SIMARD: The other important thing we figured out is that, as those trees are injured and dying, they'll dump their carbon into their neighbors. Her use of metaphor. It's gone. I thought okay, so this is just stupid. JENNIFER FRAZER: In the little springtail bodies there were little tubes growing inside them. The water is still in there. Are going to make me rethink my stance on plants. So I don't have a problem. MONICA GAGLIANO: And it's good it was Sunday. Ring, meat, eat. ROBERT: But that scientist I mentioned MONICA GAGLIANO: My name is Monica Gagliano. Episodes. ALVIN UBELL: And I've been in the construction industry ever since I'm about 16 years old. ROBERT: Let us say you have a yard in front of your house. And I'm wondering whether Monica is gonna run into, as she tries to make plants more animal-like, whether she's just gonna run into this malice from the scientific -- I'm just wondering, do you share any of that? JENNIFER FRAZER: 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. So you can get -- anybody can get one of these plants, and we did. And then Monica would ROBERT: Just about, you know, seven or eight inches. LARRY UBELL: That -- that's -- that's interesting. ROBERT: That is actually a clue in what turns out to be a deep, deep mystery. He's looking up at us quite scared and very unhappy that he was covered in And toilet paper. JAD: The plants have to keep pulling their leaves up and they just get tired. They still did not close when she dropped them. One of the spookiest examples of this Suzanne mentioned, is an experiment that she and her team did where they discovered that if a forest is warming up, which is happening all over the world, temperatures are rising, you have trees in this forest that are hurting. Is there anyone whose job it is to draw a little chalk outlines around the springtails? Jad and Robert, they are split on this one. The water is still in there. Did Jigs emerge? Connecting your house to the main city water line that's in the middle of the street. Would they stay in the tree, or would they go down to the roots? What is it? Like, they don't have ears or a brain or anything like, they couldn't hear like we hear. SUZANNE SIMARD: When I was a little kid, I would be in the forest and I'd just eat the forest floor. She made sure that the dirt didn't get wet, because she'd actually fastened the water pipe to the outside of the pot. They run out of energy. They need light to grow. JAD: This -- this actually happened to me. They run out of energy. It's condensation. JENNIFER FRAZER: Yeah. They stopped folding up. Fan, light, lean. JAD: So they just went right for the MP3 fake water, not even the actual water? Where we've all been, you know, doing our daily business. They definitely don't have a brain. Just a boring set of twigs. It's a family business. If I want to be a healthy tree and reach for the sky, then I need -- I need rocks in me somehow. So they didn't. Little fan goes on, little light goes on, both aiming at the pea plant from the same direction. MONICA GAGLIANO: Like a defensive mechanism. You just used a very interesting word. He's not a huge fan of. So maybe the root hairs, which are always found right at the growing tips of plant roots, maybe plant roots are like little ears. I mean, it's a kind of romanticism, I think. JAD: That is cool. Jad and Robert, they are split on this one. Then of course because it's the BBC, they take a picture of it. I mean again, it's a tree. She's working in the timber industry at the time. A tree needs something else. ROBERT: And this? WHRO is Hampton Roads' local NPR / PBS Station. Into which she put these sensitive plants. So its resources, its legacy will move into the mycorrhizal network into neighboring trees. LINCOLN TAIZ: I think you can be open-minded but still objective. It was magic for me. I don't really need it all right now. And might as well start the story back when she was a little girl. ROBERT: It won't be a metaphor in just a moment. MONICA GAGLIANO: All of them know already what to do. LINCOLN TAIZ: It's a very interesting experiment, and I really want to see whether it's correct or not. ROBERT: Is your dog objecting to my analysis? Little white threads attached to the roots. It didn't seem to be learning anything. And a little wind. That's what she says. But no, they're all linked to each other! 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. ROBERT: And I wanted to talk to them because, as building inspectors they -- there's something they see over and over and over. And the -- I'm gonna mix metaphors here, the webs it weaves. MONICA GAGLIANO: Exactly, which is pretty amazing. It's almost as if these plants -- it's almost as if they know where our pipes are. To play the message, press two. And we can move it up, and we can drop it. Nothing happened at all. And the pea plants are left alone to sit in this quiet, dark room feeling the breeze. LARRY UBELL: All right, my hypothesis is that what happens is LARRY UBELL: Can I -- can I have a few minutes? They need light to grow. It was like, Oh, I might disturb my plants!" I think you can be open-minded but still objective. ROBERT: And so we're up there in this -- in this old forest with this guy. If a nosy deer happens to bump into it, the mimosa plant Curls all its leaves up against its stem. JENNIFER FRAZER: Right? ", So the deer's like, "Oh, well. ANNIE MCEWEN: What was your reaction when you saw this happen? On one side, instead of the pipe with water, she attaches an MP3 player with a little speaker playing a recording of And then on the other side, Monica has another MP3 player with a speaker. ALVIN UBELL: And the tree happens to be a weeping willow. Because I have an appointment. ROBERT: The plants would always grow towards the light. ROBERT: Yeah. No, I guess that I feel kind of good to say this. say they're very curious, but want to see these experiments repeated. Tubes. So maybe could you just describe it just briefly just what you did? ALVIN UBELL: The tree will wrap its roots around that pipe. That's a parade I'll show up for. That's okay. LINCOLN TAIZ: Yes. MONICA GAGLIANO: Light is obviously representing dinner. JAD: It's like every time I close my eyes, you're coming at it from a different direction. So it's predicting something to arrive. Monica thought about that and designed a different experiment. Five, four, three, two, one, drop! You have a forest, you have mushrooms. MONICA GAGLIANO: Like for example, my plants were all in environment-controlled rooms, which is not a minor detail. We went to the Bronx, and when we went up there, we -- there was this tall man waiting for us. ROBERT: say they're very curious, but want to see these experiments repeated. 2018. It'd be all random. Yeah. Hobbled, really. Unfortunately, right at that point Suzanne basically ran off to another meeting. We went and looked for ourselves. ], [JENNIFER FRAZER: Bethel Habte, Tracie Hunte, Matt Kielty ], [ALVIN UBELL: Matt Kielly. ROBERT: No, I -- we kept switching rooms because we weren't sure whether you want it to be in the high light or weak light or some light or no light. It's almost as if these plants -- it's almost as if they know where our pipes are. I think if I move on to the next experiment from Monica, you're going to find it a little bit harder to object to it. So we are going to meet a beautiful little plant called a mimosa pudica, which is a perfectly symmetrical plant with leaves on either side of a central stem. Does it threaten your sense of humanity that you depend for pretty much every single calorie you eat on a plant? ROBERT: She made sure that the dirt didn't get wet, because she'd actually fastened the water pipe to the outside of the pot. Image credits: Photo Credit: Flickred! They learned something. Charts. Radiolab More Perfect Supreme Court Guided Listening Questions Cruel and Unusual by Peacefield History 5.0 (8) $1.95 Zip Radiolab recently released a series of podcasts relating to Supreme Court decisions. She thinks that they somehow remembered all those drops and it never hurt, so they didn't fold up any more. ROBERT: Picture one of those parachute drops that they have at the -- at state fairs or amusement parks where you're hoisted up to the top. MONICA GAGLIANO: Picasso, enough of that now. They're switched on. -- they spring way up high in the air. JAD: So today we have a triptych of experiments about plants. So they figured out who paid for the murder. But let me just -- let me give it a try. ALVIN UBELL: And the tree happens to be a weeping willow. They definitely don't have a brain. Well of course, there could be a whole -- any number of reasons why, you know, one tree's affected by another. ], Dylan Keefe is our Director of Sound Design. JENNIFER FRAZER: And the fungus actually builds a tunnel inside the rock. ROBERT: This happens to a lot of people. JENNIFER FRAZER: And this is what makes it even more gruesome. JENNIFER FRAZER: Plants are really underrated. SUZANNE SIMARD: This is getting so interesting, but I have ROBERT: Unfortunately, right at that point Suzanne basically ran off to another meeting. Picture one of those parachute drops that they have at the -- at state fairs or amusement parks where you're hoisted up to the top. I don't know. Nothing happened at all. Plants are really underrated. He'd fallen in. But maybe it makes her sort of more open-minded than -- than someone who's just looking at a notebook. ALVIN UBELL: In a tangling of spaghetti-like, almost a -- and each one of those lines of spaghetti is squeezing a little bit. And so I was really excited. ROBERT: So she takes the plants, she puts them into the parachute drop, she drops them. Science writer Jen Frazer gave us the kind of the standard story. So now, they had the radioactive particles inside their trunks and their branches. Because I have an appointment. And after not a whole lot of drops the plant, she noticed, stopped closing its leaves. I think there are some cases where romanticizing something could possibly lead you to some interesting results. But instead of dogs, she had pea plants in a dark room. The plants have to keep pulling their leaves up and they just get tired. 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 dog is expecting. A little while back, I had a rather boisterous conversation with these two guys. It's 10 o'clock and I have to go. And moved around, but always matched in the same way together. Or maybe slower? I mean, this is going places. Radiolab is supported in part by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, enhancing public understanding of science and technology in the modern world. Start of message. ROBERT: And with these two stimuli, she put the plants, the little pea plants through a kind of training regime. The same one that are used in computers like, you know, really tiny. Oh, hunting for water. ROBERT: Yeah. Parsons' Observational Practices Lab Talking About Seeing Symposium. And again. Okay. And then Monica would ROBERT: Just about, you know, seven or eight inches. On our knees with our noses in the ground, and we can't see anything. This is by the way, what her entire family had done, her dad and her grandparents. 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. And therefore she might, in the end, see something that no one else would see. I do find it magical. These sensitive hairs he argues, would probably be able to feel that tiny difference. ALVIN UBELL: How much longer? Her use of metaphor. SUZANNE SIMARD: Where we've all been, you know, doing our daily business. I'm a research associate professor at the University of Sydney. The whole thing immediately closes up and makes it look like, "Oh, there's no plant here. And I mean, like, really loved the outdoors. And they still remembered. ROBERT: say they're very curious, but want to see these experiments repeated. They play with sound and story in a way that's incredibly intriguing, I was instantly hooked with More Perfect. ROBERT: They're father and son. Testing one, two. ROBERT: And right in the middle of the yard is a tree. I mean, you've heard that. So it wasn't touching the dirt at all. ROY HALLING: Well, you can see the white stuff is the fungus. They're called feeder roots. 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. ROBERT: And we dropped it once and twice. It's time -- time for us to go and lie down on the soft forest floor. I thought -- I thought tree roots just sort of did -- like, I thought -- I always imagined tree roots were kind of like straws. LINCOLN TAIZ: It's a very interesting experiment, and I really want to see whether it's correct or not. So we are going to meet a beautiful little plant called a mimosa pudica, which is a perfectly symmetrical plant with leaves on either side of a central stem. ROBERT: When people first began thinking about these things, and we're talking in the late 1800s, they had no idea what they were or what they did, but ultimately they figured out that these things were very ancient, because if you look at 400-million-year-old fossils of some of the very first plants JENNIFER FRAZER: You can see, even in the roots of these earliest land plants JENNIFER FRAZER: This is a really ancient association. What is it? SUZANNE SIMARD: He'd fallen in. ROBERT: Now, you might think that the plant sends out roots in every direction. We were so inconsistent, so clumsy, that the plants were smart to keep playing it safe and closing themselves up. It's the equivalent of a human being jumping over the Eiffel Tower. SUZANNE SIMARD: Yes, that seems to be what happens. But what I do know is that the fact that the plant doesn't have a brain doesn't -- doesn't a priori say that the plants can't do something. Jad and Robert, theyare split on this one. Back and forth. So today we have a triptych of experiments about plants. Like, how can a plant -- how does a plant do that? No. It's okay. And the classic case of this is if you go back a few centuries ago, someone noticed that plants have sex. But the Ubells have noticed that even if a tree is 10 or 20, 30 yards away from the water pipe, for some reason the tree roots creep with uncanny regularity straight toward the water pipe. Pretty much like the concept of Pavlov with his dog applied. One time, the plant literally flew out of the pot and upended with roots exposed. But it didn't happen. The same one that are used in computers like, you know, really tiny. And every day that goes by, I have less of an issue from the day before. Coming up on the Plant Parade, we get to the heart -- or better yet, the root -- of a very specific type of plant. 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. What do you mean? You got the plant to associate the fan with food. We waiting for the leaves to, you know, stop folding. But white, translucent and hairy, sort of. The plants -- the plants stopped -- what is it they did? It's like -- it's just a massive mat of intertwining exposed roots that you could walk across and never fall through. Or even learn? And Basically expanding it from a kind of a column of a pit to something that's -- we could actually grab onto his front legs and pull him out. And I've been in the construction industry ever since I'm about 16 years old. ROBERT: Truth is, I think on this point she's got a -- she's right. And why would -- why would the fungi want to make this network? JENNFER FRAZER: Well, they do it because the tree has something the fungus needs, and the fungus has something the tree needs. Like, they don't have ears or a brain or anything like, they couldn't hear like we hear. They may have this intelligence, maybe we're just not smart enough yet to figure it out. So you -- if you would take away the fish, the trees would be, like, blitzed. This feels one of those experiments where you just abort it on humanitarian grounds, you know? LARRY UBELL: No, I don't because she may come up against it, people who think that intelligence is unique to humans. And what we found was that the trees that were the biggest and the oldest were the most highly connected. And the plant still went to the place where the pipe was not even in the dirt? Hobbled, really. ROBERT: And then she waited a few more days and came back. Couldn't it just be an entirely different interpretation here? ROBERT: But she's got a little red headlamp on. I don't know if that was the case for your plants. So you're like a metaphor cop with a melty heart. Oh, one more thing. Testing one, two. 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. JENNIFER FRAZER: The whole thing immediately closes up and makes it look like, "Oh, there's no plant here. So she's got her plants in the pot, and we're going to now wait to see what happens. Maybe each root is -- is like a little ear for the plant. ROBERT: Is your dog objecting to my analysis? Maybe there's some kind of signal? JAD: If the -- if the tube system is giving the trees the minerals, how is it getting it, the minerals? It was like, "Oh, I might disturb my plants!" Every time. But she had a kind of, maybe call it a Jigs-ian recollection. We dropped. ROBERT: And I met a plant biologist who's gonna lead that parade. 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. Except in this case instead of a chair, they've got a little plant-sized box. And not too far away from this tree, underground, there is a water pipe. And if you go to too many rock concerts, you can break these hairs and that leads to permanent hearing loss, which is bad. Both aiming at the pea plant from the same direction, and the pea plant leans toward them. So there seemed to be, under the ground, this fungal freeway system connecting one tree to the next to the next to the next. JENNIFER FRAZER: From a particular direction. That's the place where I remember things. ROBERT: Oh, so it says to the newer, the healthier trees, "Here's my food. ], [ALVIN UBELL: Maria Mata -- Maria Matasar ], [LARRY UBELL: Maria Matasar-Padilla is our Managing Director. Little fan goes on, the light goes on. Once you understand that the trees are all connected to each other, they're all signaling each other, sending food and resources to each other, it has the feel, the flavor, of something very similar. And then someone has to count. JAD: So this Wood Wide Web, is this just, like, the roots? ROBERT: And she goes into that darkened room with all the pea plants. Here's the water.". "I'm in the neighborhood. They all went closed. So the roots can go either left or to the right. I mean, can you remember what you were doing a month ago? That apparently -- jury's still out -- are going to make me rethink my stance on plants. JENNIFER FRAZER: Finally, one time he did not bring the meat, but he rang the bell. ROBERT: She took that notion out of the garden into her laboratory. ROBERT: Peering down at the plants under the red glow of her headlamp. And so I was really excited. JAD: No, it's because it's like every time I close my eyes, you're coming at it from a different direction. Promote. ]. So the fungus is giving the tree the minerals. JAD: So she's saying they remembered for almost a month? These guys are actually doing it." But it was originally done with -- with a dog. Would just suck up through photosynthesis. Also thanks to Christy Melville and to Emerald O'Brien and to Andres O'Hara and to Summer Rayne. Well, it depends on who you ask. ROBERT: After three days of this training regime, it is now time to test the plants with just the fan, no light. JAD: So they just went right for the MP3 fake water, not even the actual water? And then what happens? JENNIFER FRAZER: Or it could be like, "Okay, I'm not doing so well, so I'm gonna hide this down here in my ceiling.". Well, I created these horrible contraptions. This peculiar plant has a -- has a surprising little skill. I wanted to talk to them because, as building inspectors they -- there's something they see over and over and over. Like the bell for the dog. ROBERT: And Monica wondered in the plant's case MONICA GAGLIANO: If there was only the fan, would the plant ROBERT: Anticipate the light and lean toward it? JENNIFER FRAZER: And he would repeat this. And it's more expensive. They designed from scratch a towering parachute drop in blue translucent Lego pieces. When we last left off, I'm just saying you just said intelligence. 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. MONICA GAGLIANO: I don't know. It's like a savings account? 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. That is correct. Radiolab is supported in part by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, enhancing public understanding of Science and Technology in the modern world. And she wondered whether that was true. Do you really need a brain to sense the world around you? 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