Cycadology (RARE PLANT DRAMA) with Nathalie Nagalingum

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Alie Ward

Comedy, Science, Society & Culture

4.9 • 23.8K Ratings

🗓️ 16 February 2022

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Gather round fellow nerds, you’re about to learn about the wildest not a fern not a bush not a cactus plant you never knew you never knew about: CYCADS. These endangered ancient plants have been around for 270 million years, give or take, and now they’re some of the most valuable vegetation in the world. Come along to learn about these uncomfortably sexy gymnosperms and the international crimes people do to steal them. Also: neurotoxins, Jurassic Park, and one the best fixes for procrastination we’ve ever heard with the world’s favorite botanist and cycadologist Dr. Nathalie Nagalingum.

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0:00.0	Hey, hey, it's that yogurt parfait that, honestly, could use a little
0:04.2	mercenola, alleyward.
0:05.5	I'm here with an episode that took not only two years to make COVID
0:09.4	be damned, but has also been in the works since the Permian period,
0:14.0	270 million years ago nerds.
0:16.4	When it comes to sidecats, she is it.
0:19.4	She is the person.
0:20.7	And wait, hold up.
0:21.4	What is the side cat?
0:22.4	Good question.
0:23.4	So with a name like side cat, it could be anything.
0:26.2	It could be a person on top and a shark on the bottom.
0:29.4	I feel like a side cat could be a $16 cocktail at a speakeasy full of jerks.
0:34.8	A side cat could be a type of sore, maybe on your mouth.
0:38.0	If you're allergic to citrus, if I had to guess, but no, backing up a side cat.
0:42.6	It comes from the Greek, a typo for the word palm, despite a side cat,
0:47.4	which is a plant, not being a palm tree at all.
0:50.2	So side cats have been on the scene 200 million years before palm trees.
0:54.6	Palm trees stumble in like, hey, what's up?
0:56.6	What I miss and side cats are like, what did you miss?
0:58.2	Oh, just the rise of the dinosaurs and like gymnos firms, aka plants that just bust out naked seeds
1:05.0	without even having these new flowers or whatever you have palms.
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