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Bryology (MOSS) Encore with Dr. Robin Wall Kimmerer

Ologies with Alie Ward

Alie Ward

Comedy, Science, Society & Culture

4.923.8K Ratings

🗓️ 15 November 2022

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

It’s November and you need chill vibes. And Native American Heritage Month is the perfect time to encore this classic. World-renowned author, botanist, Indigenous ecology professor and bryologist Dr. Robin Wall Kimmerer, author of “Gathering Moss” and “Braiding Sweetgrass,” talks about her passion for moss. Cozy up for the most beautifully doled-out information about hidden worlds, overlooked mysteries, botanical drama, forests in miniature, Native peoples’ uses for moss and philosophies about science and ecology. Dr. Kimmerer will change the way you see mosses forever, will inspire you to wear a loupe on a rope, and will soothe your soul with her beautiful voice and prose. Also bathmats, lawns and smoothies made of moss? We discuss.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Oh, hey, it's your neighbor who grows a mustache every November.

0:04.0

Truthfully, it's more reliable, a seasonal indicator than even the weather.

0:07.7

It's Alli Ward.

0:08.9

It's also Native American Heritage Month.

0:11.0

There are more episodes with indigenousologists linked in the show notes, a whole bunch of them.

0:17.4

I wanted to take this episode, though, and just lay it gently on your pillow.

0:23.6

If you've heard it before, listen again, because I called it when it originally aired two

0:29.9

years ago.

0:30.9

Let's go.

0:31.9

This is an episode you're going to listen to one than once.

0:33.5

I'm going to tell you right now, not because the subject matter demands it for comprehension,

0:38.6

but because it is the very ethos of allergies, all wrapped up in the most soothing, mellow,

0:46.0

audio hug.

0:47.0

You will ever lay ears on.

0:49.3

It's overlooked beauty.

0:50.9

It's following bliss.

0:52.4

It's myth-busting.

0:53.4

Okay, let me just run through the things.

0:55.8

Let's go to the show.

0:56.8

Thank you to all the supporters at patreon.com.com.

0:59.0

Alligies, you can join for as little as a buck a month in submit questions.

1:03.0

Perhaps here yours asked in future episodes.

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