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3 unusual facts about Randall Fontes


Randall Fontes

Fontes was featured in a documentary film, The Secret Life of Plants (1979), directed by Walon Green, with a musical sound track - later released as Stevie Wonder's Journey Through "The Secret Life of Plants" by Stevie Wonder.

The project was to research action potential in the Algae Nitella, and the parenchama cells of the Mimosa pudica to determine their sensitivity to various external stimuli.

The founder of the Exploratorium was Physicist Dr. Frank Oppenheimer who believed Science and Art should be experienced together as different views of the same truth; that they should be seen to reinforce each other.



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