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Subject: COULD YOU DIRECT ME TO THE ARTICLES ON PLANTS' EMOTIONS

Date: Fri Jan 23 23:01:29 1998
Posted by FRANK JESSUP
Grade level: other
School: ITS BEEN A LONG TIME
City: MORGANTOWN State/Province: INDIANA
Country: USA
Area of science: Botany
ID: 885618089.Bt
Message:

I READ AN ARTICLE IN A MAGAZINE (LONG SINCE LOST) (PERHAPS OMNI) CIRCA 1970'S 
DESCRIBING AN EXPERIMENT WHEREBY A COMMON HOUSEPLANT WAS CONNECTED TO A "LIE 
DETECTOR". THERE WERE SEVERAL PLANTS IN A ROOM. A MAN WAS SELECTED AT RANDOM TO 
SERVE AS AN "ASSASIN"...HE WAS INSTRUCTED TO ENTER THE ROOM AND UP-ROOT ONE OF 
THE MANY POTTED PLANTS, THUS DESTROYING THE PLANT. LATER, WITH THE "WITNESS" 
PLANT CONNECTED TO THE "LIE DETECTOR" SEVERAL MEN WERE PARADED THROUGH THE ROOM. 
WHEN THE "KILLER" CAME IN TO THE ROOM, THE "WITNESS" PLANT SENT READINGS OFF THE 
SCALE! THE ARTICLE WENT ON TO DISCRIBE HOW THE "WITNESS" PLANT COULD SENCE THE 
REASERCH SCIENTISTS' THOUGHTS AND EMOTIONS FROM AFAR. I KNOW I READ IT! CAN'T 
FIND IT! PLEASE HELP.




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