The Living World Podcast, Ad-Free
Added 2025-03-08 18:07:18 +0000 UTCIn this episode we talk about why the word "nature" sucks; how to use the living world to avoid focusing on doom and idiocracy; why aimlessly walking along power line easements, irrigation ditches and railroad tracks in order to look at "weeds" is good for your health; an Australian orchid (Rhizanthella gardneri) that doesn't photosynthesize and blooms underground, a Vanilla species (Vanilla barbellata) that grow in cactus forests; whether pollen grains are analogous to nut-sacks or sperm; why the Australian Acacias have flowers that don't produce nectar, and more. the last 90 minutes are a conversation with my friend the pollination biologist and author Dr. Peter Bernhardt.
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Victorian ecology, Acacias, orchids and Reince Preibus' scrotal sack. Hitting all the pleasure zones for me this ep.
NOK
2025-04-16 11:36:58 +0000 UTCMelbourne represent! 😂
NOK
2025-04-15 07:12:54 +0000 UTCI think the Gesneriad mentioned towards the end might have been Negria rhabdothamnoides from Lord Howe Island 🤙🌿 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negria
Jupiter
2025-03-21 18:15:03 +0000 UTCAs an American expat living in Melbourne that's fallen in love with Australian landscapes and our terrestrial orchids in particular, this episode was an absolute gift. So much insight that adds so much depth to the plants I go in search of throughout the year. Thank you both!
Rachel B
2025-03-11 14:07:56 +0000 UTCAfter my long drive today listening to this podcast today (brilliant as ever) I sat down to lunch and finished a YouTube vid I'd been watching about Hmong cuisine. When asked what is Hmong cuisine the "celebrity" Hmong chef said "Being Hmong isn't about eating particular dishes or ingredients, it's about interacting with the living world no matter where you are" .... The internet was talking to me today
Ryan Gray
2025-03-10 16:20:11 +0000 UTCI think liberals like myself, and there are a lot of us who don't shop at Whole Foods, get it...I don't think the Democratic leadership even has a clue. The media, et al, likes to portray the left as a monolith of unserious whackos. The DLC and DNC are too busy standing on decorum for the political process while the opposition is throwing hand grenades. I'm not disagreeing with you, though. Have you done any kind of multi-part series about tallgrass prairies/shortgrass prairies? I thinking you have, but I probably missed it.
April Hughes
2025-03-09 02:05:46 +0000 UTCyou are right from that point of view. living world is more wholistic and includes what is already left over when the machine is broken like a beautiful blood red sky over a strip mall with some sow thistle flowering along the asphalt. and a beautiful person walking out of the 7-11 to get in a car which farts a black cloud when the engise starts. the living world:)
Kerry Knudsen
2025-03-08 20:27:47 +0000 UTCThat is music,...understand better the importance of pollen. The interaccion of aphid in pollination with flyes😲...i am more turn to kill the aphid...but i see it... sometimes you have to let them stay. Thanks Sir Peter🙏
Ana Rita
2025-03-08 20:04:18 +0000 UTCI agree it might sound better, but machine analogy is the most practical for emphasizing the worth of keeping ecosystems intact for the uninitiated.
Anthony J Malone
2025-03-08 18:57:21 +0000 UTCLiving world is better than the machine analogy
Kerry Knudsen
2025-03-08 18:31:40 +0000 UTC
