Carobology (NOT-CHOCOLATE TREES) with Megan Lynch

Ologies with Alie Ward

Alie Ward

Comedy, Science, Society & Culture

4.9 • 23.8K Ratings

🗓️ 10 February 2021

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Summary

You might only know carob as not-chocolate, which is a tragedy of its disco-era branding. This tough, gnarly, drought-resistant plant is the real-life Giving Tree, explains passionate Carobologist Megan Lynch. Dripping with leathery banana-shaped legume pods, this tree quietly dots suburban streets but has kept people alive through wars and famines, can feed livestock, makes beautiful furniture, and might cure ailments from neurodegenerative diseases to the dark depths of your irritable bowels. Oh also? It can stand in for chocolate if you need it to. LET’S SHOW SOME RESPECT. Megan also chats about the #DisabilitiesinSTEM movement, academic gatekeeping, and making science more accessible. And cheesecakes. Follow Megan Lynch at Twitter.com/May_Gun Megan’s website: http://meganlynch.net/ A donation was made to STEMd.org Sponsor links: www.alieward.com/ologies-sponsors More links and info at alieward.com/ologies/carobology Buy Megan’s album! “Songs the Brothers Warner Taught Me” Other Ologies episodes mentioned: Matrimoniology (MARRIAGE), Sexology (SEX), Entomophagy Anthropology (EATING BUGS), Corvid Thanatology (CROW FUNERALS), Molecular Neurobiology (NEUROTRANSMITTERS), Experimental Archeology (ATLATLS) Become a patron of Ologies for as little as a buck a month: www.Patreon.com/ologies OlogiesMerch.com has hats, shirts, pins, totes! Follow twitter.com/ologies or instagram.com/ologies Follow twitter.com/AlieWard or instagram.com/AlieWard Sound editing by Jarrett Sleeper of MindJam Media & Steven Ray Morris Theme song by Nick Thorburn Support the show: http://Patreon.com/ologies

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0:00.0	Oh, hey, it's your internet dad.
0:03.2	I'm here with facts about things you don't know you care about yet.
0:06.5	Alli Ward, I'm back with an episode of Alligies.
0:08.9	It is not about Valentine's Day because if you are coupled, you have had a lot of quality
0:13.6	time together this past year.
0:15.4	And if you're not, it has been a year of maybe Zoom dates and Googling DIY hug machine
0:22.4	plans.
0:23.4	So we're just not doing that this week.
0:24.9	Okay, there's no episodes about matrimonialogy or sexology.
0:28.6	We had those in previous years and yes, they'll be linked in the show notes, but this episode
0:32.7	is not about that.
0:33.7	It's not about roses or chocolate.
0:36.3	It's about not chocolate.
0:37.9	It's about under sung trees.
0:40.1	It's about something perhaps right over your head that you're about to be obsessed about.
0:44.4	It's about carib.
0:45.4	Yeah, carib, stop.
0:47.4	Okay, first, thanks.
0:49.4	Thank you to everyone on Patreon.
0:51.1	I got you about you in a recent article that I will link on my website and heads up you
0:55.2	can join Patreon for a one tiny dollar.
0:58.9	And thanks to everyone who's subscribing and posting on social media, texting your friends
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