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Plants and Pipettes — 176 episodes

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1

A much larger duck, effectively a submarine

2

Is a grape just as sweet without the colour?

3

The end was a little bit sad, but I liked the beginning

4

Catnip could be pollinated by cats

5

I shot all my powder

6

Walk like an ant, look like a plant, be a spider

7

Plants are big straws

8

Plants and Rats

9

Draw Joram a picture of smart orchards, please

10

Meow meow, meow meow meow!

11

Playing around with the ploidy level of plants

12

The broccoli-cauliflower-conundrum

13

Bishop’s balls

14

Party of Pokers

15

Turn humans into moss

16

We are mosses

17

Big British Cheese 1

18

It’s not you, it’s us

19

A thirsty secret

20

We're on holiday!

21

The sexy mixing

22

Why do trees collect clocks?

23

Hey tree, are you my friend?

24

Cat bartering market

25

Don’t pick the penis plants

26

Let’s find a moon tree

27

And by cats I mean dogs

28

A cat gap in the resumé

29

Eggplants and Pipettes

30

COWpeaMILK – it’s full of plantibodies!

31

WHY IS THE DOG IN THE GREENHOUSE? (and where does the bee keep his oils?)

32

Stranger to the trees – an interview with Kat Austen

33

(Stop) trying to make photoaerogens happen, it’s not going to happen

34

Dinosaurs in car parks

35

Giggle Peas

36

Neptune (fountain architect)

37

Some rings attached to some bits

38

The abominable mystery of Wolverine’s claws

39

Plants and Mycelium – how plants and fungi work together

40

Angiosperm Terrestrial Revolution (band) – All Flesh Tomato, Oxygen Generating Archaea, Biophony

41

Day 24 – Merry Christmas

42

Day 23 – Baby, it's cold outside

43

Day 22 – the Christmas rose

44

Day 21 – Bye, Bye Bitterness

45

Day 20 – CRISPR poinsettias

46

Day 19 – Pine Cooler

47

Day 18 – Brits and Brussel Sprouts

48

Day 17 – The Yule Cat

49

Day 16 – A microscopic Bauble

50

Day 15 – A merry Christmas Cushion

51

Day 14 – New Zealand Christmas Tree

52

Day 13 – Holly and Mate

53

Day 12 – In a German Pickle

54

Day 11 – Australian Christmas Trees

55

Day 10 – Holly

56

Day 9 – It's beginning to smell like Christmas

57

Day 8 – The Place Christmas Trees Grow

58

Day 7 – Cinnamon

59

Day 6 – Eco-Glitter

60

Day 5 – Forever green

61

Day 4 – Kranz means Wreath

62

Where would you hide a fig? – air pollution, new Ficus, free dyes

63

Day 3 - The Christmas Caterpillar

64

Day 2 – Poinsettia

65

Day 1 - The First Christmas Tree

66

The last episode (before the break)

67

DNA spikey, enzyme no likey – monitoring H2O2 live, seed inspiration, cheatgrass

68

Eiersollbruchstellenverursacher – sea slugs, cool new wheat, talking ducks

69

You’re going to need a zebra – Ivy, Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg, cold plasma

70

We did it!

71

The world’s worst guessing game (100 facts pt. III)

72

Wow, they're really doing it (ep. 100 pt. 2)

73

Episode 100 pt 1: The facts awaken

74

In Bird Culture, this is considered a slick move

75

Praise be the Dick Rocket – Tragopogon, Bethany Nichols, AI protein prediction

76

You’re wasting your space-nip! – Lettuce Opium, Dinosaurs, Fairy Lanterns

77

Derp – Social Ferns, Salty Greens, Dark Biofilms

78

Don’t do Chromothripsis, kids! – Epigenetics, NPAAs, quick fixes

79

A new hope – monkey puzzles, pride month, sleight of beak

80

Udder industry is angry – Proximity proteomics, cactus trafficking, graphene confusion

81

Dung is the correct place to be – reflective moss, Mark Spencer, beautiful plants

82

At the carp waterpark – biosensors, tracking carp, pseudopollen

83

Power Plants – Vegetable Sheep, Joanne Chory, Microneedles

84

Blaukraut bleibt Blaukraut – new blue food dye, learnings from COVID, parsnip burns

85

CAPE FASHION – hipster coffee, Beronda Montgomery, SciComm for PlantSci

86

Licked by a bee – pollinators, plants and pollinators (also pollinators)

87

The etymology of loot – extremophiles, subtraction bias, jargon

88

Building molecular Legos –ATP synthase research with Etienne Meyer

89

Explosive Good Looking Salmon – lavender, antarctic exploration, lemurs

90

Mietschuldenfreiheitsbescheinigung – Feral crops, seed maturation, anti-Asian racism

91

Let the Whale Fall – headless sea slugs, pollen season, clever cuttlefish

92

I am kind of a time traveller – with Aly Baumgartner

93

MC Hammer is right about science – Nasturtium, Helia Bravo Hollis, icebergs

94

Positive Adjectives! – Tomato transpiration, wild cotton, super-plants?

95

Joram and the curse of knowledge – gum arabic, homework, artistic AI

96

Bomblebees – TNT, Blue, Science Bots

97

Plants, Pipettes, Periods & Parrots – Noble Rhubarb, Female Adventurers, Cyborg Fly Traps

98

Hissing Blue Tits – Roots in compacted soil, crested rats, gribble

99

The ducks are anxious – the order of Cycads, Matilda Gage, Red Hot Chili Solar Panels

100

Don’t call it Moth-Paté – seagrass biofilms, fatty moths, fatty plants

101

Tapeworms have the life we all want – A christmas episode

102

Saving seeds in times of war – Genebanks and Machine Learning

103

Atomic Kitten – Spanish Moss, Thekla Resvoll, Mentorship and Gender

104

Let it grow – Sorghum spikelets, great paper titles, honest signalling

105

The one where Joram did his homework – rediscovering extinct plants, Luciana Leite and Luisa M. Diele-Viegas, Platypodes under UV light

106

Social Distancing Bats – Venus Fly Traps, Pandas, Chinas Carbon Capture

107

Nature really wants to make crabs – Gympie gympie, Pamela Ronald, Pink Pineapple

108

Puffin economy – Mast Seeding, Nobel Prizes, Bird stuff

109

Bonnie Tyler AI – Wormwood, Single names, Smart Birds

110

Oh god, it’s invasive! – Florencia Yannelli on escaped invasive plants

111

Enzymes are stupid – C4 trees, forest sounds, women saving bird research

112

Hummingbird popsicles – Elecampane, Segenet Kelemu and genome editing detection

113

T-rexes have really good reflexes – microviscosity, science tattoos, wild pollinators

114

Succulent chicken – Phytomining, Cyanotype, Boosted Tobacco

115

Stacks of wheat – Vertical farming, occlupanid research, thievish animals

116

Mola mola babies – extremophile algae, intersectional feminism in academia, talking to conspiracy theorists

117

Worm twitter is angry – Sunflowers, worm discrimination, beautiful snails

118

Penguins propelling poo – self-drilling seeds, arctic explorers, and some plant science

119

Pavlov’s pea plants

120

Don't be a hypocrite, be a hypogriff

121

Not red means not recording

122

WEIRD, STRANGE, CRINGE

123

Fake, Fake, Truth – 50th episode shenanigans

124

Help! Squirrels! – Black eyed peas, Georgiana Simpson, and the humor effect

125

Spinach and strawberries – artificial photosynthesis at the interphase of nature and technology

126

Don’t send Tom Cruise, send three to four Arabidopsis

127

Tomato Body Horror

128

The study of ducks

129

Pockets on everything

130

To bidet

131

Uncomfortably large amounts of salt

132

Flatten the curve!

133

Sunflower bros

134

Chinese Duck Army

135

Get the hell off my carpet!

136

Plant protein is the best

137

Demoralized by pandas

138

Tangent on a tangent on a tangent

139

FLUORESCENT PINK SLUG!

140

Tegan is a rubber tree

141

We're good with technology

142

Cretaceous Park

143

WELCOME BACK!

144

Advent Day 6 – Pretty Poinsettias, Caterpillars and acid (intermission)

145

Pigheaded Pigweed (Intermission)

146

There is no such thing as 'the' arabidopsis genome (intermission)

147

Cats and Naked Ladies (Intermission)

148

Phlehem

149

Murder (of Crows) Podcast

150

You know nothing, RuBisCO.

151

We hate bigotry but we love leaves

152

Free Access to Bonnie Tyler

153

There's an actual leaf in my chili

154

There is no such thing as a non-GMO peanut

155

Don't be a swan

156

High achievers in science

157

Pipettes and the use of pipettes in pipetting

158

Don't get me started on the gig economy

159

Tegan, tell us about your sparkly armpits

160

This episode will cure cancer

161

Voldemort can't produce a patronus

162

Plants and Pipettes and Pens and Paper

163

the one about the climate crisis

164

I literally don't know any words

165

QUILTBAG

166

Joachim Phoenix

167

PPR-protein-expression-system-plant: very good ☁☂

168

Harry Bittercress and the suspicious petals

169

Pennycress for your thoughts

170

Crouching Dragon Hidden Protein

171

Seven Dish

172

What's the deal with ferns and their epidermis?

173

Hot Junk

174

Throwing Shade

175

Pee-rigation

176

No Touchy the Planty