Plant Feelings

In the years following his major breakthroughs with microwaves, thinking there might be a sort of electrical life to everything, Bose began experiments on vegetables. He attached electric probes to various vegetables, and claimed to record a "death spasm" in the form of a spike in electrical activity. He hooked a cabbage to a voltmeter in front of the playwright George Bernard Shaw, who was reportedly horrified to witness the electrical "convulsion" of the cabbage as it was dropped in boiling water. Shaw, it must be said, was a vegetarian.

– The Light Eaters