291 - Getting to the Root of it All

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🗓️ 21 September 2018

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

00:00:00 - Matt from In Defense of Plants joins Joe and Ryan to talk about F.R.E.D., which is an acronym for a root-database that just reached version 2.0! Why does having a bunch of root data available matter? What’s the point of databases in general? Listen and find out!

00:22:43 - Roots drink, we drink. It’s all the same. Ryan has a typically convoluted thing in the form of a Papes Off the Crust Appalachian-style kvass ale brewed with pumpernickel bread, apples, fig leaves, and coconuts. Juli weighs in with her thoughts and the dog gets excited. Joe can’t really answer our questions about his Reading Draft Creamy Red Birch Beer. Sap extraction discussion ensues. Matt keeps things sharp with a Baileys-spiked Caribou coffee.

00:34:23 - Just when you think you know how to measure a thing, the standard may change. As whimsical as we get about THE kilogram over in France (aka Big K), the International System (SI) may be ready to move on to something more fundamental for a few of our favorite units.

00:46:55 - PaleoPOWs are a lot like precise instrumentation; easy to use improperly. First up, Patron Magnus C. has earned a fake degree by writing the fake thesis: A Mole of Nutrition: Modeling Soil Aeration of Fine Root Web Systems via a fossorial mammal. Thanks, Magnus! Next up, Joe reads an iTunes review from TheBoomstick! And Ryan wraps it all up with a tweet from @MountainVole recommending the show to a friend on Twitter, which is just the best.

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Music in the episode:

Fred Jones, Pt. 2 - Ben Folds
Cold Bread - Johnny Flynn
Who’s Gonna Take The Weight? - Gang Starr

Transcript

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0:00.0	Give me two seconds.
0:02.3	Sorry.
0:03.1	No worries.
0:04.6	Some worries.
0:08.4	Hmm.
0:09.8	What should I do right now for my life?
0:15.3	For life, that's, I think we're all in that boat.
0:18.7	I have another beer.
0:19.9	Hmm.
0:21.1	I got some stuff to do later today.
0:24.9	From science sort of.com, you're listening to Science Sort of.
0:41.8	You're listening to Episode 291.
0:45.8	This was originally 290, but issues came up.
0:49.1	And we're going to be talking about, not about those issues, but about issues of things that are science and things that are sort of science and things that wish they were. Science all around the theme of getting
0:57.7	to the root of it all with me now to talk about all that stuff is the erstwhile Joe.
1:04.7	Hey, everybody. And the stalwart Matt. Hello. Matt, for those of you who are not fully caught up on the backlog, is the host of the
1:12.9	In Defensive Plants Podcast, a sister podcast to this show.
1:16.6	And he comes on here, science order from time to time when we find a plant topic so obscure,
1:22.4	so worthless that it might not, it's not even worth its own Independence Plants episode.
1:27.3	So we have to tackle it here.
1:30.3	Nice.
1:31.0	I wouldn't say it's useless.
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