Riding Trains in Mexico, Contagious Native Plant Gardens,etc
A series of extended rants about "F*ck the Honeybees", trying to settle beefs between friends, Male Primate Rivalry, Riding Trains in Mexico in 2005 & Brakemen with gold fronts, spreading the cult of ...
30 Mar 20241h 18min
Instagram Drug Bros & Cactus Poaching
A long-winded rant about the social media phenomenon known as Instagram Drug Bros™️ and trying to encourage them to seek spiritual refuge (como se dice nice) in education about plant ecology and evolu...
22 Mar 20241h 6min
Desert Ferns with Dr. Michael Windham
This is a science-heavy episode with Dr. Michael Windham, specialist in Cheilanthoid Ferns curator at Duke Herbarium. Even if you're not interested in this group, they're a great case study in numerou...
12 Mar 20242h 3min
An Undescribed Psilocybin sp. in the Desert
This episode consists of a rant about code-switching and friendship/cordiality through friction and being a pain in the ass, along with why dissecting flowers (and not just taking them at face value) ...
12 Mar 20241h 4min
Fighting Invasive Buffelgrass in Arizona & Restoring Desert Ecosytems
A conversation with Tony Figueroa, Senior Manager for the Invasive Plant Program at the Tucson Audubon Society (no affiliation with the National Org) about preventing Buffelgrass and Stinknet from smo...
4 Mar 20241h 32min
The Closing of Duke Herbarium
A conversation with Dr. Kathleen Pryer (Director, Duke University Herbarium) and Dr. Michael Windham, (Curator of Vascular Plants, Duke University Herbarium) about the University's Decision to cut cos...
1 Mar 20241h 37min
Baja Buckwheats, Railroad Stories & Prosopidastrum
Rants about encountering a cool new legume species in the fog deserts and giant cactus landscapes of Baja California, the diversity of perennial raaaaagweeds in the deserts, Gabbro soils, a buckwheat ...
27 Feb 20241h 16min
Annotated, Profanity-laden Dichotomous Keys & the Fungal Ecology of Baja Chaparral
A long, disjointed rant about using and writing Dichotomous Keys and why it's sometimes a process of grasping for straws or throwing a bunch of stuff to a wall to see what sticks, what an ideal floral...
24 Feb 20241h 31min
