‘Researchers at Saitama University in Japan discovered that plants employ a systemic emergency broadcast system in response to unsafe situations. Microbiologists Yuri Aratani and Takuya Uemura used fluorescence imaging to show that injured plants used calcium signaling to warn healthy plants of imminent danger….’ (Laughing Squid)

‘Of his recent gaffes, his comments about the Vietnam War are particularly alarming.

The video of his confused speech begins mid-sentence: “…fields and jungles of Vietnam. They delivered a swift and swippy… and you know that sweeping. It was swift and it was sweeping like nobody’s ever seen anything happen. A victory in Operation Desert Storm. A lot of you were involved in that. A lot of you were involved. That was a quick one.”…’ (Boing Boing)

‘donald trump continues to slide after mixing up Nikki Haley with Nancy Pelosi, confusing Vietnam with Desert Storm, and forgetting that Obama is no longer the president. In fact, yesterday in New Hampshire he resorted to garbled speech, incoherent sentences, and nonsensical sounds.

“Which is incapable of salvin’ even the swollest, smallest problem,” he slurred at a rally hours before the the Granite State’s polls would open. “We are an institute in a powerful death penalty. We will put this on.” (See video below, posted by Biden-Harris HQ.)

trump also described the Israeli Iron Dome air defense system with sound effects. “And they calmly walk to us see, and ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding,” the GOP frontrunner said. “They’ve only got 17 seconds to figure this whole thing out. Bomp. Okay. Missile launch, psheem, pfoom.” (See second video below, posted by Acyn.)…’ (Boing Boing)