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Live plants have been used as musical instruments, especially in electronic music.. Live plants can be used as electronic musical instrument by running a weak electric current through them and by amplifying the way the current is changed when the plants are touched, or by applying contact microphones and amplifying the projection and tone of the sounds produced when handling them.
Buzz pollination, or sonication, serves as an example of a behavioral response to specific frequencies of vibrations in plants.Some 20000 plants species, [7] including Dodecatheon and Heliamphora have evolved buzz pollination in which they release pollen from anthers only when vibrated at a certain frequency created exclusively by bee flight muscles.
The Computer-Aided Design Centre (or CADCentre as it was more commonly referred to, and later formally became) was created in Cambridge, England, UK in 1967 by the UK Ministry of Technology.
Alternative technology is a term used to refer to technologies that are more environmentally friendly than the functionally equivalent technologies dominant in current practice. The term was coined by Peter Harper , [ 1 ] : 13.59 one of the founders of the Centre for Alternative Technology , North Wales (a.k.a.
Alternative natural materials, specifically their applications, have only recently made their way into more common use. The modern problems of global warming and climate change shifted more of a focus onto the materials and methods used to build our cityscape and homes. As environmentally conscious decisions became commonplace, the use of ...
Chico News & Review, Chico; Desert Star Weekly, Palm Springs; East Bay Express, Oakland; Easy Reader, Hermosa Beach; Good Times, Santa Cruz; LA Weekly, Los Angeles ...
The mediaeval great chain of being as a staircase, implying the possibility of progress: [1] Ramon Lull's Ladder of Ascent and Descent of the Mind, 1305. Alternatives to Darwinian evolution have been proposed by scholars investigating biology to explain signs of evolution and the relatedness of different groups of living things.
Natural Alternatives International, Inc. (NAI) is an American company based in Carlsbad, California which manufactures nutritional supplements such as Juice Plus. NAI was founded in 1980 by Mark A. LeDoux, [ 1 ] and had 241 employees in 2007.