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David Robinson
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Biology professor, retired. Airlie, Scotland.
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What do people usually get wrong about plants? “I think many people do not realize how dynamic plants are throughout their lifetimes. As plants growth up, they undergo tremendous shifts in form and function…” (8/9)
What do people usually get wrong about plants? I think many people do not realize how dynamic plants are throughout their lifetimes. As plants growth up, they undergo tremendous shifts in form and function, and this process is not unlike the metamorphosis which butterflies and frogs pass through. Yet, for plants, these changes are not always so obvious. They may occur via internal anatomical shifts, or changes in architecture. Without careful observation, they may be missed altogether! And sometimes, the ontogenetic shifts are very apparent and so dramatic that it seems impossible that the juveniles and adult stages are the same species. In addition to these developmental dynamics, plants are able to adjust their morphology, anatomy, and physiology in response to environmental cues, such as the amount of water or light, via phenotypic plasticity. Thus, although plants do not “behave” in the same sense as animals, they do alter their phenotypes in a kind of analogous way. Although not all ontogenetic and plastic shifts in plant phenotypes are adaptive, many of them are, enabling plants to improve their performance in an unpredictable and changing environment.
December 2, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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All good, thanks.
October 29, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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That was a very nice piece of chemistry, Andy. I remember it well.
October 28, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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Also. "The only people I like talking to are scientists. You know why? Scientists are the only people who will say 'I don't know' when you ask them a question. Everyone else will start talking. After a couple of minutes you have to stop them and say the correct answer is 'I don't know'.
September 18, 2025 at 8:57 AM
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"Stupidity is infinitely more fascinating that intelligence. Intelligence has its limits while stupidity has none."
- Claude Chabrol

📷 Nancy R. Schiff, 1980
An enthusiastic Chabrol in conversation. He's holding a cigarette, and wearing a scarf around his neck.
June 24, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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Here’s Paul Dano as Wilson putting together Good Vibrations in an exhilarating scene about the creative process from the underrated Love & Mercy: youtu.be/aUIpP7KUmeQ?...
Good vibrations | Love & Mercy
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June 11, 2025 at 5:09 PM