A car stuck in mud and a thirsty squirrel: photos of the day – Monday
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‘After four hours, I was tired, thirsty and shaking’: the women taking photography to extremes | Art
‘What’s great about my age,” says Hannah Starkey, “and going through the menopause, is that you leave the male gaze behind. And it’s really liberating. You can’t really sell me anything. And I’m dangerous – because I can tell you the truth!” A piercing, perilous honesty and a fully emancipated female gaze are characteristics that rebound in Acts of Resistance: Photography, Feminisms and The Art of Protest, a major show at South London Gallery, organised with the V&A. Crossing continents and generations, this galvanising group show seeks to join up ideas about image-making and dissent, offering a visual manifesto for a fourth wave of feminism. When Katayama worked as a jazz singer, a customer once shouted: ‘A woman who doesn’t wear high heels is not a woman’ Belfast-born Starkey, 53, presents a trio of prismatic, large-scale “abstract portraits”. The works belong to a wider series commissioned to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the Good Friday agreement last year. The photographs pay homage to a generation of dovish activists, women who were instrumental in Northern Ireland’s …
Thirsty tomatoes emit ultrasonic sounds – and other plants may be listening
Plants may appear silent, indifferent organisms to us, but recent research has found they make high-pitched clicking sounds when they are struggling to find water. In principle, neighbouring plants could pick up on and react to these noises. You can listen to more articles from The Conversation, narrated by Noa, here. Scientists in Israel record brief pulses of sound coming from tobacco and tomato plants in a greenhouse. They happened more often when the plants had not been watered or at times when they were losing large amounts of water from their leaves. The sounds were about as loud as a quiet conversation but were mostly between 40,000Hz and 60,000Hz, which is too high pitched for human hearing which only goes up to about 20,000Hz. However, they should be audible by dogs, who can hear up to 45,000Hz, or cats, whose hearing goes all the way up to 64,000Hz. Many people think of plants as nice-looking greens. Essential for clean air, yes, but simple organisms. A step change in research is shaking up the way …