Episode 7: Returning from the (mostly) dead with Dr. Matt Bowker
That crunchy black moss ball probably isn't dead...at least maybe not if you are in the desert. Just give it a splash with your water bottle and watch this cool little plant resurrect right before you...
31 Mar 202152min
Episode 6: WTF Biologist, Richard Dawkins with Dr. Tom Whitham
Richard Dawkins' contributions to evolutionary biology (and pop culture) revolutionized the field of study. He is an emeritus fellow of New College Oxford and was the first University of Oxford's Prof...
17 Mar 202142min
MINISODE: WTF is that tree still doing with leaves? It's winter....
This is called marcescence. Commonly seen on juvenile oaks, hornbeams, and beeches, the why behind marcescence remains a mystery. Music is by Dr. Ron Deckert. Find him on SoundCloud. If you have ques...
10 Mar 20216min
Episode 5: Hidden hormone pumping poison packets with Dr. Ron Deckert
Plants are full of microbes! Fungal and bacterial endophytes live inside healthy plant tissue, but WTF are they doing in there? Join Dr. Ron Deckert and me as we get super nerdy about endophytic fungi...
3 Mar 202156min
MINISODE: WTF is mRNA?
In this minsode, I answer a WTFer's question about mRNA. I explain the Central Dogma of Biology...how genes get are expressed as proteins, and how mRNA can be used to train an immune system to recogni...
24 Feb 20216min
Episode 4: WTF Biologist, Gene Bozniak
Dr. Gene Bozniak, or just plain old Boz, and I discuss so many things....biases and why they exist, how forcing people to become Christian resulted in ecosystem destruction, and where the mysterious p...
17 Feb 202148min
MINISODE: Happy Birthday Chucky D
Did you know that a lot of Darwin's evidence for evolution through natural selection came from experiments that he conducted at home? During this pandemic, many of us find ourselves working from home....
12 Feb 20213min
Episode 3: Biological Luggage of Mountain Pine Beetles with PhD candidate Sneha Vissa
PhD candidate, Sneha Vissa, and I discuss all the little buddies that mountain pine beetles pack around with them, including mites and fungi. We talk about beetle sex, elk hiding in fog, and where not...
3 Feb 202135min
