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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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84:47

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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90:28

Phylogenetic Crash Course podcast

Crime Pays But Botany Doesn"t ·

2024/09/26

This is the spoken part of a lecture that was presented for patreon subscribers and students on the patreon. To see the accompanying PDF and hear ad-free podcast episodes sign up for the crime pays patreon at patreon.com/crimepaysbutbotanydoesntWe talk about the basic elements of plant identification, how it ties into plant evolution, evolutionary trees aka cladograms, what "phylogeny" means and why monophyletic" and "synapomorphies" are such important terms.

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91:32

Texas' Rarest Plant, Caliche Gardens & Crested Peyote

Crime Pays But Botany Doesn"t ·

2024/09/20

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 Paronychia congesta, one of Texas' Rarest Plants, which grows on Caliche barrens in Jim Hogg County, as well as Caliche blazing stars, the Crested Peyote of West Texas, planting native plant gardens at Amada's House in Mirando City,and plenty more.

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157:21

Lycophytes, Quillworts & the "Great Dying"

Crime Pays But Botany Doesn"t ·

2024/09/16

I became fixated on lycophytes because of some of the cool desert-dwelling members of the genus Selaginella, not to mention the utterly weird "clubmosses" that thrive in places as disparate as Northern Wisconsin and the slopes of volcanoes in New Zealand, but in this episode botanist Jeff Benca tells us about his work with relatives of the genus Isoetes ("Quillworts") and how their 250 million year old relatives might have been able to survive the biggest extinction in Earth's history, otherwise

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104:57

West Texas Pine Harvest and Alternation of Generations

Crime Pays But Botany Doesn"t ·

2024/09/13

A rant about West Texas Pines and the sand blazing star. At the 40 minute mark we begin our dive into the convoluted, confusing but utterly cool phenomenon of Alternation of Generations we talk mostly about Bryophytes (mosses and liverworts) and Lycophytes ("spikemosses" and "clubmosses"), and the ferns, but not gymnosperms or angiosperms). This turns into more of a "lesson" on the subject than a podcast episode. Key terms to remember : Gametophyte (haploid), Sporophyte (diploid)Haploid - 1 set of

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185:50

A Conversation with Dan Hosage

Crime Pays But Botany Doesn"t ·

2024/09/07

A conversation with Chemist, Genius, Botanist,, Propagator, & Madman Dan Hosage about Texas Native Plants, Texas History, and more.

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68:39

Convincing Mice to Vote for Cats

Crime Pays But Botany Doesn"t ·

2024/08/30

NON-BOTANY PODCAST! This week's podcast is a conversation with my friend Jay Lesoleil, political anthropologist and half the means behind the "Fucking Cancelled" podcast about right-wing populism, the failures of the American left, identitarianism, and how to build a non-insane American working class left.

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86:54

Oaks Are the Beasts of An Ecosystem! A Discussion...

Crime Pays But Botany Doesn"t ·

2024/08/22

Andrew Hipp is the director of the herbarium and Senior Sciensist and Researcher in Plant Systematics at Morton Arboretum in Chicago. This is one of the most fun and inspiring conversations I've had in a while, and it's about one of the most ecologically important genera of plants in the Northern Hemisphere : THE OAKS (genus Quercus).In this episode we talk about the 13,000 year old Palmer's Oak in the California Desert, what the hell "Delayed Fertilization" is (hint: it's not common but it's

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