If we’ve learned two things from newspapers this year, it’s that 1) calling something “fake news” is targeted harassment and can place a journalist in mortal danger, and 2) you’re supposed to pay for print journalism, because it’s important to keep it alive.
Imagine: If there were no New York Times, you might never have learned about the scientist who studies sound communication in plants and was advised by an oak tree to pursue her studies.
Dr. Monica Gagliano says that she has received Yoda-like advice from trees and shrubbery. In 2012, she says, an oak tree assured her that a risky grant application — proposing research on sound communication in plants — would be successful. https://t.co/EAdCFhrQRU
— The New York Times (@nytimes) August 31, 2019
“Do plants have something to say?” is the sort of hot take we’d expect from BuzzFeed, maybe.
Just to be clear, the New York times has an article about somebody who says that plants talk and give advice to her.
Correct?
— Pablo D. Carrasco (@PabloDCarrasco) August 31, 2019
— ryan (@whatntarnation_) August 31, 2019
Drugs are bad, mmmkay.
— Terra Tremuit (@TTremuit) August 31, 2019
— ricobennyy (@ricobennyy) August 31, 2019
Is she on any medication?
— Truth to Power (@NewYorkerPhil) August 31, 2019
Say no to drugs.
— Lakers??17Chips?? (@Kendall99309566) August 31, 2019
Is THIS how they gain credibility with subscribers?? https://t.co/0U5j1FFtSi
— NewsBusters (@newsbusters) August 31, 2019
Dame is high
— Elspeth MacLeod (@style_abides) August 31, 2019
What are Americams smoking lately???
— Quirkyalone (@kwamesarpong108) August 31, 2019
Depends on how much acid you take
— Kevin Dicknose (@RealKevDicknose) August 31, 2019
The real “green new deal”. pic.twitter.com/E5s7Gmq2R3
— Kidzed (@Seducedbylogic) August 31, 2019
…which branch is she talking to?
— NorthGowerRules (@Carl95at3xxxs) August 31, 2019
Great job everyone
— Attorney@Law (@TheGlare_TM) August 31, 2019
“She recalls being rocked like a baby by the spirit of a fern. She has ridden on the back of an invisible bear conjured by an osha root. She once accidentally bent space and time while playing the ocarina…” pic.twitter.com/8cPkllVLrq
— PEAK AUTISM (@Frog_Priestess) August 31, 2019
But enough about Marianne Williamson.
This is great.
And as crazy as it may sound, “biologists, ecologists, foresters, and naturalists increasingly argue that trees speak, and that humans can learn to hear this language.”https://t.co/VlgTMQVahc
— ? (@NYCityVibe) August 31, 2019
Proof that “increasingly argue” proves nothing.
"Grant application risky, successful would be." Yoak?
— Gustavo (@Rocoli49) August 31, 2019
You say you talk to God in this day and age and people call you crazy. You say you talk to plants and you get a New York Times article.
i’d like to know what she’s a doctor of but I’m not subscribing to the New York Times for a single article.
— Warren T. Carrigan (@WarrenCarrigan) August 31, 2019
Doctor, huh?
— Chuck Monan aka The Pigskin Preacher (@monan_chuck) August 31, 2019
— The Yard Guys LLC (@TheYardGuysLLC) August 31, 2019
The answer is no. No they do not.
— Luke Johnson (@Lukesrant) August 31, 2019
Spoiler alert: no
— Alan Modracek (@AlanModracek) August 31, 2019
— The Yard Guys LLC (@TheYardGuysLLC) August 31, 2019
— martyrabkin (@martyrabkin) August 31, 2019
1. Where is this oak?
2. Does it see walk ins?
3. Can I put it down as a referee on my grant application?— Nima Tabari (@DrNimaTabari) August 31, 2019
Of course a plant would tell you to get funding for plant research!
— Bart Reilly (@bnreilly) August 31, 2019
I want whatever she’s smoking.
— jonathan (@3rdicite) August 31, 2019
Somebody’s been smoking too much grass
— Fourier (@PaulHol03756299) August 31, 2019
Absolutely! I have regular visits with dandelions. (Usually when I am smoking pot.) My doob screams when I fire it.
— JM (@Democrat_4Jesus) August 31, 2019
My corn pleaded with me to spare his life, but I ignored it and ate it anyway. pic.twitter.com/pXbmncjcDN
— Fast Eddie (@Fast_Edd2) August 31, 2019
The shrubbery also claimed that Grateful Dead was still a pretty decent band once you get used to their noodling.
— IPOT (@IPOT1776) August 31, 2019
The consummate environmentalist. Educated beyond her intellect and a refugee from traditional inpatient mental health care.
— Pete Moss (@OrganicMatter4U) August 31, 2019
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GIF party! Cambridge fellow who’ll get naked for any progressive cause now going nude to protest Brexit https://t.co/P4oba6QZFs
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) February 13, 2019
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