Plants are freakin cool - plant "intelligence"

Who would have thought I would have gone into a physical science in school, and ended up LOVING plants this much?

Short background info on me, which will help shed light on just how stupid we can be as teenagers...

I was approaching the "choose your career" fork in life - choosing what I wanted to do post-secondary school (highschool), and I had no idea what I wanted to do. Play baseball was right up there, and competing with what I wanted to do for an education. I had a scholarship to Michigan State University if I wanted to pursue the baseball career path. Deep down I knew I wasn't big enough to go that route, and likely wouldn't make it. So I was at least smart enough to turn away from that road. But what DID I actually want to do for my life?

I hadn't discovered permaculture or my love of the outdoors yet. My life consisted of playing video games and playing baseball. Part of me wanted to go into computer science to design games, but you have to remember at that time, the internet didn't even exist. People didn't have cell phones yet. So going into this field felt like a potential disaster.

I ended up choosing pre-med, and the reason was that I wanted to tell people at a party that I was a brain surgeon. No, seriously that was actually my reason. I wish I was kidding. I am not.

Well, after a year into taking biology in school, I realized just how much I hated learning biology and chemistry. And this is why I'm telling you guys all this. How funny is it that I would later find my greatest passion in life, and that it would be almost all biology and chemistry related?! This is why it's so hard for kids to choose their careers using a teenager brain.

So I switched into physics, because I figured if I couldn't tell people I was a brain surgeon at parties, then I could still tell them I was a rocket scientist. Again... I wish so much this was a joke. It is not.

I then kicked butt my first year and swapped into engineering after I did a work term in some labs working on quantum dots, and all my colleagues were some of the smartest people on the planet and they were in abject poverty, making roughly what you make as a walmart greeter, but doing world class science. So I swapped to engineering and the rest is history.

Wow that ended up longer than I thought... my main goal was to highlight that it's funny how I ended up making youtube videos about biology and chemistry and plants in my free time. What a plinko journey I took to get here.

Today's episode is just how cool the biochemistry in plants are, and how humans may actually never even understand JUST HOW COOL it is, because, well, we aren't plants. Humans trying to understand plants is like some alien rock-based-lifeform (who communicates through vibrating dark matter) trying to understand human language.

Lets start the video at this point... by looking at what is maybe the smartest organism on the planet Earth... Corn.

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