Does Curiosity Grow On Trees? with Professor Beronda Montgomery

Getting Curious with Jonathan Van Ness

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Science, Self-improvement, Comedy, Education, Society & Culture

4.9 • 21.5K Ratings

🗓️ 4 May 2022

⏱️ 59 minutes

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*A note from Jonathan and the Getting Curious team: We are covering the latest SCOTUS developments on Instagram and Twitter @CuriouswithJVN. Head there for insights from past guests, resources, and relevant episodes from our archive. We invite you to listen to this episode whenever feels right for you, and we hope that you’ll find comfort and energy from it.* The birds are chirping, the flowers are blooming, and we have a spring in our step because Professor Beronda Montgomery is back on Getting Curious, for an episode all about trees! How do trees know when to unfurl their leaves in the spring? Do they have growth spurts? What’s bud grafting all about? Learn all that and more—plus, catch up on the latest from Jonathan and Mark’s garden. Beronda Montgomery is a writer, science communicator, and currently a Michigan State University Foundation Professor of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology and of Microbiology & Molecular Genetics. Beronda will soon be Vice President of Academic Affairs and Dean at Grinnell College. Her recent book is Lessons from Plants (2021, Harvard University Press). If you aren’t already obsessed with Professor Montgomery and following her on all the socials, she’s on Twitter @BerondaM and @PlantLessons, and on Instagram @Beronda_M and @PlantLessons. Her website is berondamontgomery.com. And you can follow her New Scientist column here! Jonathan is on Instagram and Twitter @JVN and @Jonathan.Vanness on Facebook. Transcripts for each episode are available at JonathanVanNess.com. Love listening to Getting Curious? Now, you can also watch Getting Curious—on Netflix! Head to netflix.com/gettingcurious to dive in. Our executive producer is Erica Getto. Our associate producer is Zahra Crim. Our editor is Andrew Carson. Our socials are run and curated by Middle Seat Digital. Our theme music is “Freak” by QUIÑ; for more, head to TheQuinCat.com. Getting Curious merch is available on PodSwag.com.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Getting Curious, I'm Jonathan Vaness, and every week I sit down for a gorgeous conversation
0:05.2	with a brilliant expert to learn all about something that makes me curious.
0:10.2	On today's episode, because y'all you know that I'm living for nature, I'm living for things that
0:15.7	grow outside. Today though, honey, it's not about pumpkins, but it is with somebody who we have
0:22.2	talked about pumpkins with in the past. I'm joined again by Professor Miranda Montgomery, where I
0:28.8	ask her, why are trees so clever? Oh my god, welcome back to Getting Curious. This is Jonathan
0:37.2	Vaness, you guys, if you're like driving pullover, I mean, maybe don't. I'm just saying get excited
0:44.0	is what I meant to say because we have like one of like our all time, like greatest. If there was
0:49.4	like a getting curious All Stars edition, like RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars, but like getting
0:54.2	curious All Stars, this person would be here. Welcome back to the show,
0:59.2	Miranda Montgomery, who is a professor at Michigan State University. However soon she will be heading
1:05.5	to Grinnell College as vice president for academic affairs and dean of the college. Welcome back.
1:12.0	How are you? Thank you. I am so happy to have been here. This has been the highlight of my week.
1:16.7	I've been waiting for this. Oh my god, that gave me chills. I'm not lying. Like maybe that was like
1:20.8	a latent COVID symptom that gave me chills, but like, I've been looking forward to this. I love
1:25.2	you. I love you. And the feeling is so incredibly mutual, which is probably not a surprise to you.
1:30.7	What I should update the listenership on is that like, since our last interview with Miranda,
1:36.9	on average, there has been probably like three to 10 DMs a month about the garden. She is very
1:43.7	patient with me. Sometimes I say to my husband and like, Mark, we can't make Miranda regret that
1:48.8	she like answered our DM. We have to like pace ourselves because I am like, you know, my middle name
1:54.6	is 21 questions. Who knew? Brought it just got a full interrogation this last weekend about
2:00.0	pumpkins because it was brought to my attention. We better just tell everyone, we're on all
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