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January 22, 2004
Stomata Peak, D. A., West, J. D., Messinger, S. M & Mott, K. A. "Evidence for complex, collective dynamics and emergent, distributed computation in plants." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, 101, 918 - 922, (2004)about large-scale, self-organizing patterns of opening and closing of stomata. The article is described in this Nature blurb, which I found here via Slashdot. Couple of annoying things here. First, the article uses the word emergence, which almost always means that some interesting phenomenon is about to be explained and then gratuitously followed by a bunch of handwaving bullshit. Maybe this has changed in the four years since I quit science, but I'm not optimistic. Second, PNAS is unbelievably expensive despite that fact that I've already paid for it, given that the National Academy of Sciences is something that's, you know, funded by my taxes. Ah well. [permalink | reply | tb ] |
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