Crime Pays But Botany Doesn't

Bruce Shoemaker is a researcher on natural resource conflicts andauthor of the book "Dead in the Water", about hydropower projects and extractive predatory capitalism in Southeast Asia.In this podcast...

16 Mars 20251h 55min

In this episode we talk about why the word "nature" sucks; how to use the living world to avoid focusing on doom and idiocracy; why aimlessly walking along power line easements, irrigation ditches and...

9 Mars 20252h 35min

Ad-Free episodes of the Crime Pays But Botany Doesn't Podcast are available on the patreon at :https://www.patreon.com/c/CrimePaysButBotanyDoesntIn this episode we talk with Leo Mercado of Morningstar...

7 Mars 20251h 56min

Rants about museums in Chicago, the hall of botany at the field museum, drop-in sinks, Euglossine bees, the genus Gnetum, getting the cops called on you at Chicago Botanical Gardens, the library at sa...

5 Mars 20251h 50min

Episodes of the Crime Pays Podcast are available Ad-Free on the Patreon at : https://www.patreon.com/c/CrimePaysButBotanyDoesntRants about the New Asteraceae species discovered at Big Bend National Pa...

26 Feb 20252h 7min

A 2 hour rant about the upper Amazon, the Paramo, ant symbiosis, Ilex guayusa, ethnobotany at the fruit market, giant neotropical bamboos, and much more. Ad-free episodes of the podcast are available ...

20 Feb 20252h 10min

A conversation with mycologist Alan Rockefeller about fungal and plant biodiversity of the upper Amazon of Ecuador.Episodes of the Crime Pays podcast are available Ad-Free on the Patreon at https://ww...

10 Feb 20251h 32min

Miguel Moya is a naturalist and designer who produces field guides and posters for native plants in Chile. In this episode we talk about the sclerophyll forest, the temperate rainforests of Chile Isla...

29 Jan 20252h 10min