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Mike's Multiverse

Episode 209 - Grounding, Friendship, and the Senses of Plants

Mike's Multiverse

Mike McHargue

Leisure, Science, Games, Society & Culture

4.81.2K Ratings

🗓️ 20 January 2020

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

This week, Mike responds to the following questions. Do plants have senses? Plants May Not Have Ears, But They Can 'Hear' Way Better Than We Thought Do plants feel pain? Do Plants Think? How can people have intimate friendships without becoming romantically involved? If we encountered intelligent, alien life, what would it be like? The Fermi Paradox - Wait But Why Is there any scientific evidence to validate "grounding?" This study was referenced in Mike's response.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Grounding Friendship and the Senses of Plants.

0:03.4

All that and more on this week's episode of Ask Science Mike.

0:07.2

You've got questions, he's got answers,

0:12.1

even though we may not understand.

0:14.0

He'll talk anyway.

0:15.0

He got problems.

0:17.0

He won't solve them.

0:18.0

But he'll talk and talking

0:20.0

and talking till it's blue in the face.

0:22.0

Science, faith faith in life. Ask Science Mike!

0:27.0

Well, hello friends and welcome to another episode of Ask Science Mike. This is a weekly program where we believe that every sincere question

0:36.0

deserves an honest and non-judgmental response. I'm your host. I'm Mike McCarg. The internet calls me Science Mike and usually when I'm your host, Mike McCarg, the internet calls me, science Mike, and usually when I'm talking right now,

0:45.3

there's a background music and all kind of stuff, but I'm wondering if this year for a season,

0:51.7

I'm going to try to do the intro without all of that production because I'd like to see if I can be even more sincere and even more myself in our time together each week.

1:06.6

And I think maybe just talking to you without the music in the background makes that easier for me.

1:11.8

So I wonder if we could just try that together.

1:15.0

Still love the theme song theme song as you heard is there but I'd like to just drop right into talking together.

1:25.0

And we've got some really fascinating questions on the show this week that I can't wait to share with you.

1:30.0

Before we do that, though, I'd like to talk to you about times in the near future when we could be together in a physical space and not just in the car or the subway or the gym or wherever you happen to be listening right now.

1:44.5

And what's really neat about these events is I could see your face and

1:49.8

hear your voice. Did I say hear your face? I can see your face and hear your voice and we can talk with each other.

1:59.0

So in January from the 20th to the 27th.

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