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CuriousG
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May 10, 12:00pm
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During normal days, the trees’ signals bounced around with minimal coordination. During the eclipse, their signals fell into synchrony — sometimes rising, sometimes falling, but doing so together. It was a quiet, biological harmony. Music of the Ainur comes to mind.
And TIL "electrome": The electrome is the full range of electrical activity generated by a living organism’s cells and tissues, used to coordinate internal processes and respond to environmental changes.
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Ethel Duath
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May 10, 2:58pm
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Ah, yes! Makes me wonder about the possible meanings of metronome--
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- Device used in facilitating synchronized rhythms in a musical group (although it was a bit like herding cats in my string quartet).
- Cities that act a lot like organisms (NYC seems to, for better or for worse).
- The old joke about small beings roaming the subways.
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dernwyn
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May 10, 5:32pm
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"Total Eclipse of the Heart(-wood)"?
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Fascinating...
“One felt as if there was an enormous well behind them, filled up with ages of memory and long, slow, steady thinking; but their surface was sparkling with the present: like sun shimmering on the outer leaves of a vast tree, or on the ripples of a very deep lake. I don’t know but it felt as if something that grew in the ground - asleep, you might say, or just feeling itself as something between roof-tip and leaf-tip, between deep earth and sky had suddenly waked up, and was considering you with the same slow care that it had given to its own inside affairs for endless years.”
Tolkien knew something...
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"I desired dragons with a profound desire"
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Ethel Duath
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May 10, 5:43pm
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used language the way he did.
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grammaboodawg
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May 15, 1:35am
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What a fascinating and incredible article!
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I'm astounded by what these researchers have been doing and what they've discovered! :D FANTASTIC! And I couldn't help but be in awe of Tolkien's intuition… his sensitivity in realizing this part of trees' personalities. They're definitely describing Tolkien's Ents!
The team measured how bioelectrical signals fluctuated across trees and compared those fluctuations to one another. During normal days, the trees’ signals bounced around with minimal coordination. During the eclipse, their signals fell into synchrony — sometimes rising, sometimes falling, but doing so together.
From Many Partings: The Two Towers … "But when the Ents all gathered round Treebeard… …murmuring in their slow musical voices… …all with the same slow, steady, thoughtful expression, and the same green flicker.
… As soon as the whole company was assembled, standing in a wide circle round Treebeard, a curious and unintelligible conversation began. The Ents began to murmur slowly: first one joined and then another, until they were all chanting together in a long rising and falling rhythm, now louder on one side of the ring, now dying away there and rising to a great boom on the other side."
From Lothlórien: The Fellowship of the Ring … [At Cerin Amroth in Lothlorien] "Haldir had gone on and was now climbing to the high flet. As Frodo prepared to follow him, he laid his hand upon the tree beside the ladder: never before had he been so suddenly and so keenly aware of the feel and texture of a tree's skin and of the life within it. He felt a delight in wood and the touch of it, neither as forester nor as carpenter; it was the delight of the living tree itself."
We have been there and back again.
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