Plants and Pipettes

Tegan and Joram explore the world of molecular plant research. How to plants sense their environment? What controls their metabolism? How do they store energy? Come along to an excursion into the very cells of all green things!

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episode 43: To bidet


In times of need here we are to deliver another vital ration of exciting plant facts, bread talk and cat news. No paper this week, instead we’re talking about ostriches, shrubs and palm research.

Tegan’s favourite plant is Forsythia, a yellow shrub that doesn’t contain lactose.

Joram presents the life and work of Natalie Uhl.

Ostriches don’t stick their head in the sand and this bias might or might not be true.

This guy used ancient yeast to bake Egyptian bread. He also went out to collect wild yeast in the forest.

Some updates on Corona

Tegan knows a cool word and it’s Panjandrum.

An Australian astrophysicist put magnets up his nose until he ran out of magnets.

Cats are calmed by cat-specific music

Our opening and closing music is Caravana by Phillip Gross

Until next time!

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 April 3, 2020  57m