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How Plants Around You Can Manipulate and Deceive (Fresh Air+)

How Plants Around You Can Manipulate and Deceive (Fresh Air+)

Update: 2025-08-25
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Those plants that surround us inside and out of our homes? They’re doing a lot more than just soaking up the sun. In this archive interview, climate journalist Zoë Schlanger told Tonya Mosley how plants can communicate, recognize other plants, store memories, and even learn—a perspective that challenges our very idea of what a plant is. | Listen to 40+ years of Fresh Air's archives at https://FreshAirArchive.org. | To access bonus episodes, sponsor-free listening and support public radio, become a Fresh Air+ supporter at https://plus.npr.org/freshair.

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How Plants Around You Can Manipulate and Deceive (Fresh Air+)

How Plants Around You Can Manipulate and Deceive (Fresh Air+)