Ep 125: Science... sort of - Zombie Plants and Hungry Fungus

Science... sort of

Brachiolope

Natural Sciences, Science

4.7 • 674 Ratings

🗓️ 28 February 2012

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

00:00:00 - The Russians are repopulating their tundra with 30,000 year old squirrel leftovers i.e. they germinated a plant from a 30,000 year old seed (sort of) and now they have a pretty flower. Awesome.

00:13:18 - Drinks are needed to make plants and Paleopals grow. Jacob has BAWLS, don't ask. Kelly has a favorite win. And Ryan has a Dark Depths Baltic IPA that he's happy to explain.

00:17:38 - Ryan subjects Kelly and Jacob to the insanity of Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar Movie on this week's trailer trash talk. Will they be charmed or disgusted? Listen and learn!

00:29:03 - Finally! A fungus has been found that eats plastic and likes it. Stop worrying about conservation, apparently it's all taken care of.

00:41:07 - PaleoPOWs are like plastic eating fungi, they probably won't amount to much. Kelly has an e-mail to Ryan from Cameron about our Special Edition Jurassic Park commentary! Ryan has an iTunes review from the DepressionMachine that is anything but. And Jacob has a blog comment from an old blog post questioning the validity of the work-energy theory. Crackpot test anyone?

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Music for this week's show:

Ancient Walls of Flower - Marcy Playground

Wrecking Ball - Interpol

Like A Movie - Midtown

Plastic Jungle - Miike Snow

Transcript

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0:00.0	How, um, what, how, what obscenities are okay?
0:05.0	Don't know.
0:06.1	So my philosophy is say whatever you want.
0:07.6	I'll deal with it in post.
0:08.5	Okay.
0:09.0	From science sort of.com, you're listening to science sort of.
0:25.0	This is episode 125.
0:27.7	The theme this week is zombie plants and hungry fungus.
0:30.7	I'm your host, Ryan, and joining me to talk about things that are science, things that are sort of science, and things that wish they were science, are two people that both have water-based photos for their Skype IDs, one of which is Jacob Stomp.
0:41.0	Hello.
0:41.9	He is running on a beach, and another one is Kelly Weiner-Smith.
0:45.3	Hello!
0:46.4	She is holding a giant fish.
0:48.3	A giant bass.
0:49.7	It's a very large mouth bass.
0:51.8	Yes.
0:52.2	Did it sing?
0:53.8	It was not of the singing variety. It was not of the singing variety.
0:55.4	It was not of the singing variety.
0:57.3	Well, you know who else likes to sing?
0:58.8	Me?
0:59.7	I was going to say, cute little ground squirrels.
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