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Crime Pays But Botany Doesn"t

Why do some plants grow where they do? How can geology cause new plant species to evolve? Why are some plants pollinated by flies, some by bats, some by birds, and others by bees? How does a plant evolve to look like a rock? How can destroying lawns soothe the soul? This is a show about plants and plant habitat through the lens of natural selection and ecology, with a side of neurotic ranting, light humor, occasional profanity, & the perpetual search for the filthiest taqueria bathroom.

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84:51

Potential Problems with Blight-Resistant Chestnuts

Crime Pays But Botany Doesn"t ·

2025/01/06

For some background on the developing story of creating a blight-resistant American chestnut, please check out the podcast episode a few episodes back with Erik Carlson.Jared Westbrook is a geneticist with the American Chestnut Federation. In this episode we talk about what went wrong with the initial round of trials for blight-resistant chestnuts, how to combine targeted genetic approaches to hybridizing American and Chinese Chestnut trees for blight resistance, thousands of years of human

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139:21

Better Living Through Reptiles

Crime Pays But Botany Doesn"t ·

2025/01/02

In this episode we sit down with Kyle Elmore of the youtube channel @popmilk for a two hour talk about herping (lurking for reptiles and amphibians), creating habitat, passionately obsessing over milksnakes, why Indigo Snakes are so chill, self-education, embracing the living world as a side-hobby, coping with habitat loss, naming milk snakes,, the glory of tin, getting bit by copperheads, being attacked by africanized bees, teaching organic chemistry, and more. Check out Kyle's stuff at

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113:50

The Ruined Christmas Podcast

Crime Pays But Botany Doesn"t ·

2024/12/31

Rants about ruining Christmas, disappointed family members, mixing and making soil recipes, Thornscrub Sanctuary update, maintaining a positive outlook despite the spiritually-poisonous effervescent fart of modern consumer society, feral pigs, ruderal plants, and more. Before you whine about the ads, keep in mind all episodes of the podcast are available Ad-Free on the Crime Pays Patreon.

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59:25

Dissecting the American Retail Slum

Crime Pays But Botany Doesn"t ·

2024/12/30

In this episode we talk with Crime Pays Field Correspondent WIll Doran about his traumatic experiences in the Car and Retail Slums of the American Sunbelt, possibly one of the ugliest and most soul-crushing landscapes in the first world. This is a landscape that exists as pure "anti-culture", and as many of you may know, is the only kind of landscape and infrastructure option offered to many people living in the lower-latitude United States. It leads to deteriorating mental, emotional, spiritual and

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112:58

Talking Philosophy with Kerry Knudsen

Crime Pays But Botany Doesn"t ·

2024/12/16

Kerry Knudsen is a Lichen Biologist who originated outside of academia and worked in construction until becoming fascinated by the natural world and immersing himself in desert lichens.In this episode we talk about the modern human approach to the living world, why the study of natural sciences is becoming increasingly popular among people outside of academia, the biosphere as a living machine, self-education using the internet, and more. A lichen is the symbiosis between a fungus and algae or

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109:36

What Happened to the Transgenic American Chestnut?

Crime Pays But Botany Doesn"t ·

2024/12/11

Here's your reminder that all episodes of the Crime Pays podcast are available ad-free (because ads are the equivalent of cold sores) on the Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/c/CrimePaysButBotanyDoesnt.What happened to the transgenic American Chestnut? In January of 2024 news broke out that a "lab error" had "compromised years of research" regarding the re-introduction of American Chestnuts into Eastern North American forests, this time with a simple 700 base-pair gene for blight-resistance

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82:45

Mycorrhizal Harvesting, Sky Island Extirpations

Crime Pays But Botany Doesn"t ·

2024/12/10

In this episode we talk about how we are explicitly NOT condoning it, how to harvest mycorrhizae from soil duff, what is "KNR" and what "IMO"s are, the paucity of study concerning mushroom diversity in the Davis Mountains and how some species there might be eventually extirpated due to the drying climate, the fungal genus Tarzetta, and more. The episode is polished off by a 40 question botany quiz.If the ads are bumming you out, then stop whining about having to hit the fast forward button and join

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84:47

Adam Black is NOT a Permaculture Activist

Crime Pays But Botany Doesn"t ·

2024/12/08

In this episode I sit down withAdam Black about planting fruit trees in the park, how to save the honeybees, why invasive species don't exist, and how to properly apply a glue-on moustache and select proper attire so as to "fit in" when botanizing in West Texas. /sAdam Black is a field botanist and researcher with Bartlett Tree Research Laboratories and Arboretum who has traveled to numerous continents and countries researching oaks and conifers (he has nothing to do with permaculture, that is just

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84:09

Native, Invasive & Basic Biogeography

Crime Pays But Botany Doesn"t ·

2024/12/05

If the terrible Ads are bumming you out, then episodes are available on the Patreon Ad-Free at https://www.patreon.com/c/CrimePaysButBotanyDoesntIn this lecture we rant about Invasion Biology, Continents as Ecosystems, the concept of a "Living Machine", and David Bowie's package in The Labrynth.PDF download for this rant : https://drive.google.com/file/d/1rL5WP8zI0-Oqh4DYkRFBpjk0tBrcP9Hl/view?usp=drivesdk

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87:37

A Conversation About Human Relationships with the...

Crime Pays But Botany Doesn"t ·

2024/11/30

If the ads are a bummer, then join the Patreon, where you'll have early access to videos, exclusive access to learning material, and Ad-Free episodes of this podcast.This was a conversation I had with my friend Martin Grantham about how humans relate to the living world around them (or rather, how most of them don't) and the factors that influence it.

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66:58

Plant Speciation Podcast for You Rotten Degenerates

Crime Pays But Botany Doesn"t ·

2024/11/27

This podcast episode is available ad-free on the Patreon with a screenshare of the presentation that accompanies it at www.patreon.com/crimepaysbutbotanydoesntHow do plants evolve? How do plants speciate? What is allopatric speciation? What is sympatric speciation? How do plants like the Hawaiian silverswords evolve to be such big weird bastards while their ancestors on the mainlaind (the tarweeds) are so small? What the hell happened with the genus Echium (Boraginaceae) when it got to the Canary

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155:38

Tectonic City

Crime Pays But Botany Doesn"t ·

2024/11/16

If the ads are a bummer, keep in mind all episodes of the Crime Pays podcast are available Ad-Free on the Patreon at : www.patreon.com/c/crimepaysbutbotanydoesntCodi Lazar is a Professory of Geology at California State University San Bernardino and a passionate and utterly hilarious geologist. In this episode, we get into the weeds talking about a wide variety of topics such as how limestone forms, why some plants might be restricted to it, what "serpentinite" is, what's in story for the state of

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129:16

A Deep Dive Into Coyote Bush

Crime Pays But Botany Doesn"t ·

2024/11/05

Ads are terrible, Ads are hell, and if they bother you, here's a reminder that you can avoid them altogether by listening to this podcast Ad-Free on the Crime Pays Patreon at :www.patreon.com/crimepaysbutbotanydoesntThe genus Baccharis is one of the largest and most diverse in the Composite Family, Asteraceae. It originated in South America a few dozen million years ago and has diversified and spread throughout South and North America and adapted to a variety of different habitats due to a number of

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77:46

Oklahoma City, Limestone endemism, Relict Habitat of...

Crime Pays But Botany Doesn"t ·

2024/10/25

If the ads are annoying, keep in mind all podcast episodes are offered ad-free on the Patreon at : www.patreon.com/crimepaysbutbotanydoesnt, where you'll also have early access to videos, exlusive access to plant education lectures, and exclusive access to photo dumps from recent plant excursions that are not visible on any of the other Crime Pays Social Media venues.Rants about scrub oaks in the sand dunes of West Texas, 500 million-year-old granite in Lawton Oklahoma and the obesity epidemic

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138:34

Plant Anatomy, Again with Dr. Jim Mauseth

Crime Pays But Botany Doesn"t ·

2024/10/16

If the ads are bumming you out, keep in mind that ad-free episodes of the podcast are available at :www.patreon.com/crimepaysbutbotanydoesntDid you know that the distal ends and tips of roots are the only parts doing any absorption? What the hell are cortical bundles and why did cacti evolve them? How can cactus roots grow so quickly after a rain and what do we mean by "root spurs"? How does the South American parasitic plant Tristerix aphylla behave like a fungus when it grows inside its host

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56:34

Plant Tissue Systems Lecture

Crime Pays But Botany Doesn"t ·

2024/10/12

A reminder: the ads on this podcast (as well as most podcasts) are terrible. You can get AD-FREE versions of this podcast episode on the crime pays patreon (https://www.patreon.com/CrimePaysButBotanyDoesnt)In this episode: We talk about the three main types of tissue systems in plants :Dermal (trichomes, guard cells)Ground (Parenchyma, Collenchyma, Sclerenchyma) & Vascular (xylem and phloem)What the hell are these tissues? Whatta they mean? Whatta they do?

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166:05

Chris Best, State Botanist - USFW

Crime Pays But Botany Doesn"t ·

2024/10/10

If the ads are bumming you out, consider joining the Patreon where all podcast episodes are uploaded ad free at : https://www.patreon.com/CrimePaysButBotanyDoesntChrist Best is the State Botanist with US Fish and Wildlife Service for the state of Texas, a position he has held for 30 years. He has extensive knowledge of plants in the Rio Grande Valley of South Texas, specifically. He has worked with numerous rare and endangered plant species including Physaria thamnophila, Asclpeias prostrata,

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65:48

Debunking Charlatans & Posers with Professor Dave...

Crime Pays But Botany Doesn"t ·

2024/10/08

A reminder: the ads on this podcast (as well as most podcasts) are terrible. You can get AD-FREE versions of this podcast episode on the crime pays patreon (https://www.patreon.com/CrimePaysButBotanyDoesnt)Dave Farina is the host of the "Professor Dave Explains" youtube channel, an educational youtube series exploring a wide variety of scientific topics and offering free eduational tutorials on subjects ranging from human evolution to organic chemistry to arthropod taxonomy. In recent years, he has

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88:20

Archaeology, Texas History and Public Land

Crime Pays But Botany Doesn"t ·

2024/10/04

David Keller is a historian and archaeologist from West Texas who based out of Alpine, Texas.

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54:19

Da Tubes Lecture (Shoots and Roots)

Crime Pays But Botany Doesn"t ·

2024/10/03

Originally recorded as a class lecture, this podcast episode contains information on root structures and shoots and is accompanied by the PDF found at : https://drive.google.com/file/d/1vA_n1OWw2PpUJSqn3m5lbSOymH_aARB7/view?usp=drivesdkas well as chapters 23,24,&25 of "Raven Biology of Plants" textbook which can be downloaded for free on libgen.is in PDF form and read on a tablet.We cover : Apical Meristems, Lateral Meristems (and why monocots don't have any), root caps, cortex, endodermis,

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