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We Dig Plants: Botanical Libraries (19:31)
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We Dig Plants, Alice Marcus Krieg, Hearst Ranch, Groundworks Inc, New York Botanical Library, botanical libraries, New York Botanic Garden, Stephen Sinon, NYBG, botany, Nathaniel Lord Britton, Elizabeth Gertrude, herbarium, dried plant specimens, wintering plants, horticultural history, Darwin manuscripts, Darwiniana, visual exhibitions,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
First Aired - 02/18/2013 04:30PM
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What plants have shaped civilization and culture? This week on We Dig Plants, Carmen Devito chats with Bill Laws, writer, journalist, and author of the book 50 Plants That Changed the Course of History! Tune in to this episode to hear Carmen and Bill discuss some of the more unlikely heroic plants. Find out about the classification of onions, and how sweet peas helped spawn modern genetic research. How have economies been altered by plants like ginger and ferns? Bill talks about some plants that have proven to be dangers to humanity, and find out how grains helped establish the United States as an international superpower. This episode has been sponsored by Rolling Press.
"We can't go on using our fossil fuels as we have. I think the history of these plants is only half-written. There's going to be a time when we once again look at how these plants can help us. [20:30] -- Bill Laws on We Dig Plants
"We can't go on using our fossil fuels as we have. I think the history of these plants is only half-written. There's going to be a time when we once again look at how these plants can help us. [20:30] -- Bill Laws on We Dig Plants
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Peas and Genetics (17:42)
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Bill Laws, home, garden, BBC, The Telegraph, The Curious History of Vegetables, 50 Plants That Changed the Course of History, writing, plants, journalist, Facebook, tea, tobacco, rice, cotton, hemp, onion, culinary, garlic, Linnaeus, Charles Darwin, sweet pea, edible pea, tulips, genetics, community gardens, allotment, hobby, flowers, Gregor Mendel, botany, spice, ginger, Medieval, Islam, trading,Coconuts, Ferns, and Oil (13:42)
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coconut, wounded soldiers, oil, petrochemicals, ferns, decomposition, fossil fuels, Ralph Waldo Emerson, the Industrial Revolution, consumerism, food, wheat, sugarcane, opium, cannabis, refined sugar, obesity, flour, grains, seed, cattle, miller, prairies, bread basket, The Soviet Union, economies, poppy,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
First Aired - 01/31/2011 12:00PM
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On Part 1 of this 2 Part series focusing on the Galapogos Islands, Bernie Wides welcomes mentor, friend and fellow naturalist Maxwell "Mickey" Cohen to the show. Together they discuss the properties of this wonder of nature and how it helped inspire Charles Darwin's theory of natural selection as it relates to evolution. Tune in to learn more about prickly pear cacti, tortoises and how nature finds a way to adapt in even the most unlikely situations. This episode was sponsored by Tabard Inn. For more information visit www.tabardinn.com
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The Naturalist Introduction (25:15)
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The Naturalist, Bernie Wides, Mickey Cohen, The Galapagos, natural history, the Galapagos inspired Charles Darwin in his theory of natural selection, the Galapagos is a unqiue ecosystem because of how isolated it is, the Hawaiian islands were different, nobody even knew the Galapagos were there, people found it after being lost at sea, Bishop of Panama, Darwin was the Naturalist on board an expensive project by the British government, natural selection is a theoretical expiation for how evolution works, largely based on the Galapagos experience, finches, Survival of the Fittest, banding finches,Natural Selection & The Galapagos (18:03)
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prickly pear cactus, tortoises, low arch shape, could never make its head into a shrub or tree, cacti with higher arches were more fit for survival, different types competed, evergrowing, they got taller and taller, the hot spot doesn't move, it's down in the mantle, there is room being made for another island, there are islands like the Galapagos in the future, geological time moves very slowly, adaptation for survival, there are 19 species of sea birds, breeding grounds, mating calls, masked boobie, animals on the Galapagos Islands have no fear of humans, you can get great photos too!,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
