"The Happening" and Plant Science

In "The Happening," common plants release a neurotoxin that threatens the survival of the human race. This movie premise may be far-fetched, but scientists say summer is a good time to familiarize yourself with toxic plants that can be harmful to your health. This ScienCentral News video has more. http://www.sciencentral.com/video/

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[goldcherries]

zomg! did you know plants give you rashes! It's all in their plan to get you to scratch yourself to death.

[hypnodance]

To paraphrase Ted Turner on Robot Chicken: "Protect the environment, or we'll ****ing kill you!"

[happinesson]

made me interested to watch the film.

[natman3535]

17 people would of appreciated this video being in layman's terms.

[liamsp544]

The fuck... Shyamalan conducted research for a movie about evil plants? LOL

[TheRonnieLuver]

the director looks like an Oompa-Loompa?

[MrsPippinBaggins]

I adore Zooey Deshanel and Mark Wahlberg and just KNEW that this movie couldn't be so bad with them in it. Then I watched it, and it made me want to throw myself at their feet and BEG them to tell me- "WHY?"

(my friends and I were prepared for a thriller and laughed hysterically throughout.)

[lozoft9]

@Miracle490d The regulation of phototropism by the horomone Auxin:

Auxin is generated on the dark side of the stem more than the light, where it causes cell elongation which in turn makes the stem grow unevenly. that is it. that doesn't sound like an actual active response to stimuli.

[lozoft9]

When i saw the trailer for the happening, i was like "this movie is gonna be the bomb-diggity." What was this fool thinking?! oh sure, plants all over the world can communicate with each other and miraculously generate one HUMAN SPECIFIC neurotoxin in thousands of different species all in 200 years of evolutionary time. my five year old sister saw through the holes in his logic! duh plants don't have a brain to "target" anyone! that's just fucking sad!

[mrKickass808]

O SHIT WERE ALL GONNA DIE!!!!!! from a piece of grass....

[vincentx915]

@bluemystic7502 thats cause he's done that ONE trick more than once, now people expect it so much that he basically ruined his own films before they even get filmed.