{"id":22348,"date":"2019-01-14T02:39:31","date_gmt":"2019-01-13T23:39:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tentaclii.wordpress.com\/?p=22348"},"modified":"2019-01-14T02:39:31","modified_gmt":"2019-01-13T23:39:31","slug":"lovecraft-was-right-part-358","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2019\/01\/14\/lovecraft-was-right-part-358\/","title":{"rendered":"Lovecraft Was Right, part 358"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new paper <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biorxiv.org\/content\/early\/2018\/12\/28\/507590\">&#8220;The sounds of plants&#8221;<\/a>. The researchers&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>demonstrate, to our knowledge for the first time, that plants emit sounds that can be recorded from a distance. We recorded ~65 dBSPL ultrasonic sounds &#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Since certain fungi also attract night-insects, it would be interesting to know if some of those also produce sound.<\/p>\n<p>H.P. Lovecraft on the sounds emitted by the Mi-Go fungus race in the woods of Vermont, in &#8220;The Whisperer in Darkness&#8221; (1931)&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It is more than two years now since I last ran off that blasphemous waxen cylinder [sound recording]; but at this moment, and at all other moments, I can still hear that feeble, fiendish buzzing as it reached me for the first time.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new paper &#8220;The sounds of plants&#8221;. The researchers&#8230; demonstrate, to our knowledge for the first time, that plants emit &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2019\/01\/14\/lovecraft-was-right-part-358\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scholarly-works","category-unnamable"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22348\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}