Stefano Mancuso: The roots of plant intelligence

Plants behave in some oddly intelligent ways: fighting predators, maximizing food opportunities ... But can we think of them as actually having a form of intelligence of their own? Watch Prof Mancuso\'s talk at TED Global 2010

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ESA PARABOLIC FLIGHTS

Whatch this video, and learn more about parabolic flights and microgravity experience! Thanks to the Erasmus Centre, ESA for the material

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Interview on 51° Parabolic Flight Campaign

A short interview to Prof.Mancuso with a brief description of our experiments. Thanks to the Erasmus Centre, ESA for the material

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"L'esprit des plantes" de Jacques Mitsch

Plants belong to another universe, a silent and seemingly simple world; they make food from sunshine, which in turn feeds the animal kingdom. But what if plants were keeping something from us? What if they have minds ? What if they are intelligent? Scientists are asking these very questions, do they perceive their environment? Do they have a memory? Could they have a nervous system? To these men and women, the great divide between the plant and animal world is not that great at all.

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