The Closing of Duke Herbarium
Mar 01, 2024•1 hr 37 min
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Episode description
A conversation with Dr. Kathleen Pryer (Director, Duke University Herbarium) and Dr. Michael Windham, (Curator of Vascular Plants, Duke University Herbarium) about the University's Decision to cut costs by closing the herbarium as well as the general trend in modern US Academia of failing to recognize the importance of Botany in society as a whole as well as other attempts to defund it.
We also touch on the cheilanthoid fern genus Gaga, named after both Lady Gaga and a section of the roughly 1500 base-pair-long MatK plastid gene region and why cheilanthoid ferns (aka desert ferns) are so damn cool.
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Abandon your pre-med or law studies, tell your parents to get bent, and study plant & fungal science, evolution and ecology instead.
We also touch on the cheilanthoid fern genus Gaga, named after both Lady Gaga and a section of the roughly 1500 base-pair-long MatK plastid gene region and why cheilanthoid ferns (aka desert ferns) are so damn cool.
Listen to this episode Ad-Free on the Crime Pays Patreon.
Abandon your pre-med or law studies, tell your parents to get bent, and study plant & fungal science, evolution and ecology instead.
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