Podcasts about amorphophallus

The Amorphophallus titanum, nicknamed Putricia, attracted over 20,000 physical visitors keen to lay their noses on its infamous smell before wilting and collapsing a few days later - while over one million people ogled it via livestream.

Maggie Strömberg och Adam Svanell möter Caisa Ederyd och Ahmet Yaraman. Lyssna på alla avsnitt i Sveriges Radio Play. SvD-stjärnorna Maggie Strömberg och Adam Svanell möter P3-stjärnorna Caisa Ederyd och Ahmet Yaraman.Har den gamla SVT-serien Rederiet äntligen blivit mangaserie i Japan? Var USAs Tiktok-förbud exakt lika långt som ett Harry Potter-maraton? Har Göran Persson köpt en travhäst och döpt den till ”Kohl Butter Party”? Är Göteborgs nya jättespårvagn längre än den enorma dinosaurien Argentinosaurus var och sväljer svenska kvinnor i genomsnitt ett halvt kilo läppbalsam per år?Programledare: Annika LantzDomare: Sara LövestamProducent: Rickard NerbeTekniker: Jakob Lalér

Less late than last time! We are approaching being back on schedule! Moving into my first house is harder than I thought, y'all. Recipe for Bengali Mashed Elephant Food Yam: https://seasonalflavours.net/ol-bhaate-elephant-foot-yam/#google_vignette Music by James Milor from Pixabay Information provided by: https://www.anbg.gov.au/gnp/interns-2002/amorphophallus-paeoniifolius.html https://conservatory.cals.cornell.edu/2016/05/18/featured-plant-amorphophallus-paeoniifolius/ A phytopharmacological review on an important medicinal plant - Amorphophallus paeoniifolius by Yadu Nandan Dey, et al. (2012) https://doi.org/10.4103/0974-8520.100303 https://blogs.ifas.ufl.edu/collierco/2021/07/15/the-mystery-of-the-missing-amorphophallus/ https://garden.org/plants/view/177687/Elephant-Yam-Amorphophallus-paeoniifolius/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amorphophallus_paeoniifolius

Credit: Clathrus archeri: By Bernard Spragg. NZ - https://flic.kr/p/2orEbL1, PDM-owner, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index... Hydnora Africana: By Ebony Black - https://flic.kr/p/27SqFqU, PDM-owner, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index... CC BY 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... Xylaria polymorpha: By Michael Gäbler, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index... Clathrus archeri egg: By Holger Krisp, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index... CC BY-SA 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... octopus stinkhorn: By de:Benutzer:Oilys, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index... Devil's Fingers: By Steveb68, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index... Hirneola auricula-judae: By Svdmolen, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index... Hydnellum peckii.darvin: By Darvin DeShazer (darv), https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index... Tacca chantrieri: By Meneerke bloem, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index... Gymnosporangium-juniperi-virginianae: By AnalogWeapon, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index... Gymnosporangium juniperi: By Andrew Durso (amdurso), https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index... CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... dead man's fingers: By Michel Langeveld - https://www.inaturalist.org/photos/14..., https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index... Xylaria polymorpha 2: By Michel Langeveld - https://www.inaturalist.org/photos/15..., https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index... Xylaria polymorpha 3: By Michael A. Alcorn - https://www.inaturalist.org/photos/11..., https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index... Amorphophallus titanum: By W. Barthlott, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index... Model of a titan arum: By Jacklee, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index... Pycnandra acuminata: By Benoit HENRY, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index... Auricularia auricula-judae: By Michel Langeveld - https://www.inaturalist.org/photos/11..., https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index... Darlingtonia californica: By Karelj, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index... Cedar apple rust: By Ronincmc, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index... Utricularia sp: By Ayotte, Gilles, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index... Utricularia sp.: By Ayotte, Gilles, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index... CC BY-SA 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... Clathrus archeri 2: By Lukas - https://flic.kr/p/JGhP9M, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index... White Baneberry: By Joshua Mayer - https://flic.kr/p/EnTXLh, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index... CC BY 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... Dead Man's Fingers: By Stu's Images, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index... Hydnora africana: By Seth - https://www.inaturalist.org/photos/29..., https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index... CC BY 2.5 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... Darlingtonia californica: By NoahElhardt, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index... Darlingtonia californica ne8: By NoahElhardt, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index... Ophiocordyceps unilateralis A: By David P. Hughes, Maj-Britt Pontoppidan, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index... Music by Epidemic Sound https://www.epidemicsound.com/ Music from TheSoul Sound: https://thesoul-sound.com/ Animation is created by Bright Side. Stock materials (photos, footages and other): https://www.depositphotos.com https://www.shutterstock.com https://www.eastnews.ru ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- For more videos and articles visit: http://www.brightside.me/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Crowds lined up in San Francisco to see—and smell—the blooming of an endangered tropical flower that releases a pungent odor when it opens once every several years. An Amorphophallus titanum, also known as a corpse flower, began blooming at the California Academy of Sciences, a research institution and museum. The plant blooms for one to three days once every seven to 10 years. During the bloom, it releases a powerful smell described by some as rotting food or sweaty socks. “It's kind of imitating the smell of kind of a dead carcass to kind of get all the flies to come and interact with it, pick up pollen, and then take that pollen to another flower that it might investigate due to its smell,” said Lauren Greig, a horticulturist, California Academy of Sciences. It was the first bloom for the corpse flower named Mirage, which was donated to the California Academy of Sciences in 2017. It's been housed in the museum's rainforest exhibit since 2020. Bri Lister, a data scientist who lives in San Francisco, moved some meetings and waited in line for about an hour to catch a whiff of the plant. "In certain directions, I definitely picked up on the sweaty socks, sweaty gym clothes, but probably luckily not full-on rotting meat, but definitely a smellier plant than average," Lister said. Monica Becker took her child out of school to see the flower in person after watching it on the academy's livestream. "When we heard it bloomed, we were like, we got it, we got to go, first thing in the morning when they open. So here we are," Becker said. The Amorphophallus titanum is native to the Indonesian island of Sumatra. It is listed as endangered by the International Union for Conservation of Nature, with only less than 1,000 individual plants left in the wild. This article was provided by The Associated Press.

Look, you're a busy executive type trying to make a mark on the world, so you just want the headlines, no fluff – I get it. Michael's in Cambodia. Russell Brand allegedly did bad things. The Overton Window has shifted. mRNA vaccine techniques will soon be applied to other diseases. Some door knocks are inappropriate. And a new fun segment to end. Boom. Done. Now get back to that shareholder meeting. This episode's mistakes include: Referring to the corpse flower as Rafflesia, when it is actually Amorphophallus titanum – a common misconception attributed to a mistranslation in the early 2000s. Referring to 'We Need To Talk About Kevin' as 'What's The Deal With Kevin?' Referring to the best man as a 'groom of honour'. Egregious factual inaccuracies. Check Paul Rudd's availability, then like us on Facebook, follow us on Instagram and Spotify, rate us on Apple Podcasts, and send your questions to deepfought@gmail.com.

We all love plants that have some personality. These are the ones that stand out and make us take notice, and when we see them at a nursery, public garden, or in a fellow gardener's collection, they go straight onto the wish list or into the shopping cart. Which unforgettable treasures will jump to mind as you listen to Danielle, Carol, and their guest musing about some of their favorite plants with presence? Expert guest: Karl Gercens is the East Conservatory Manager at Longwood Gardens in Kennett Square, Pennsylvania.   Danielle's Plants Rose Sensation™ false hydrangea vine (Schizophragma hydrangeoides 'Minsens', Zones 5-9)  Double Take Scarlet ™flowering quince (Chaenomeles speciosa 'Scarlet Storm', Zones 5-9)  'Wu-La-La' hosta (Hosta ‘Wu-La-La', Zones 3-9) ‘Little Honey' oakleaf hydrangea (Hydrangea quercifolia ‘Little Honey', Zones 4b-9)   Carol's Plants ‘Storm Cloud' bluestar (Amsonia tabernaemontana ‘Storm Cloud', Zones 4-9) Kodiak® Orange bush honeysuckle (Diervilla x 'G2X88544', Zones 4-7) Marine heliotrope (Heliotropium arborescens, Zones 10-11) ‘Straw' Colorado spruce (Picea pungens ‘Straw', Zones 4-8)   Expert's Plants Titan arum (Amorphophallus titanium, Zones 11-12) Tower of jewels (Echium wildpretii, Zones 9-10) Madeira Island geranium (Geranium maderense, Zones 9-11) Wood's cycad (Encephalartos woodii, Zones 10-11) Mule's foot fern (Angiopteris evecta, Zones 10-11)

What's big, emits the stench of decaying flesh, and draws crowds of thousands? It's none other than the Amorphophallus titanum, commonly known as the corpse flower! In this episode, our guest Matt Coulter, the horticultural curator for the Botanic Gardens of South Australia, enlightens us about this botanical rockstar and much more.Embark on a damp and misty expedition through the Mt. Lofty Botanical Gardens with Matt as he guides our hosts, Alex and Kiri. Explore the Amorphophallus palace, a glasshouse where this master of disguise thrives and reproduces. Then, venture into other shade houses and nurseries where some of our state's most endangered flora are cultivated for conservation.Following the tour, Alex, Kiri, and Matt delve into the topic of plant conservation over a cup of tea. Discover Matt's personal journey into horticulture and the significance of botanical gardens in preserving plant species. So come join us, even if you've forgotten your umbrella – there's much to explore!BONUS: Some of the corpse flowers in their leaf growth phase are on display now at the Adelaide Botanical Gardens in the Amazon Waterlily Pavilion and the Rainforest Conservatory!You can follow the Botanical Gardens on Facebook @AdelaideBotanicGarden, instagram @botanicgardenssa and twitter @botgardenssa.CREDITS Host: Alex Chu and Kiri MarkerProducer: Kiri MarkerEditor: Adam ToomesCopywriting and distribution: Jacob MaherMusic: Darcy Whittaker The BSSA podcast is supported by the Biology Society of South Australia For more on the BSSA, head to our website www.biologysocietysa.com or follow us on instagram @biologysocietysa, facebook and twitter @BiolSocSA

Balancing hormones is essential for achieving and maintaining healthy weight. Hormonal imbalances can be caused by a variety of factors, including stress, poor diet, and lack of exercise. In order to maximize weight loss efforts, it is important to understand how hormones affect metabolism and appetite. By recognizing the role of hormones in weight loss, individuals can take steps to restore balance and achieve lasting results. In this week's episode, Unlocking Secrets of Hormones and Weight Loss, Dr. Stephen and Janet Lewis will talk about the connection between hormones and weight loss, and what you can do to balance your hormones naturally. Products Mentioned in Today's Show: FiberTrim - features Shimizu Propol® A propolmannan—a highly pure, natural soluble fiber. Propol A is created from Amorphophallus konjac-derived glucomannan using proprietary processing techniques. This fiber has been studied for its viscosity and for its stability through the digestive tract; and studies support its health effects, such as on satiety, weight control, glucose and lipid metabolism, and bowel regularity.* Stress Adapt - helps your body resist and recover from the effects of everyday stress. Components of this multifunctional formula have been shown to support healthy cortisol levels, help alleviate occasional fatigue, promote mental clarity, and support relaxation and restful sleep.* You can also listen to Unlocking Secrets of Hormones and Weight Loss on Spotify here. Show Notes In this podcast episode, Dr. Stephen andJanet Lewis discuss the four-step hormone weight loss to nutrition, emphasizing the importance of achieving weight loss in a healthy manner that benefits the physical, spiritual, and mental body. We discuss the role of different hormones in weight loss, such as cortisol and ghrelin, and the importance of gut health for detoxification and weight loss. We also talk about the benefits of supplements like Stress Adapt and the role of fiber in weight loss and fat detoxification. We offer personalized lab tests and packs, meal plans, and grocery lists to help people succeed in their weight loss journey. Finally, we discuss the benefits of positive thinking and acts of kindness on mental health and weight loss.

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios, Celebrate International Carnivorous Plant Day on May 4th! Host and garden expert, Teresa Watkins discusses her week of carnivorous synchronicities with three different occasions! Viewing the Titan of all Titanum blooms, the malodorous Amorphophallus titanium at the Rollins College Greenhouse with an invitation from Rollins College Greenhouse Manager, Alan Chryst, viewing an endemic carnivorous plant from  Pungky Nanda Pratama‘s country of Sumatra. Pungky is the Environmental educator for the Sumatra Nature & Biodiversity Conservation Foundation, and finally receiving her monthly business newsletter, The Garden of Words, editor Katie Elzer-Peters describes her hike into the carnivorous world of Venus-Fly traps, endemic to NC and SC.  Teresa interviews Kenny Coogan, Education Director for the International Carnivorous Plant Society in Tampa. Kenny sells carnivorous plants at Critter Companions.  Follow Teresa, Kenny, Pungky, and Katie on Facebook! Gardening calls and texts include stubborn amaryllis, crape myrtles, do carnivorous plants eat love bugs, how much to water a newly-sodded lawn, and more!   https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7 Graphic Credits: Teresa Watkins    Listen to Better Lawns and Gardens every Saturday 7 am - 9 am EST.  Call in with your garden questions 1.888.455.2867, or text 23680.     #WFLF #WFLA #FNN #BetterLawns #gardening #Florida #planting #gardeninglife #radio #southflorida #northflorida #centralflorida #tropical #floridalife #photography #SHE #fertilizer #turf #grass #landscaping #fruits #vegetables #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #BLGradio #WRLN #WiOD #2022 #gardening #fertilizer #SummitResponsibleSolutions #QualityGreenSpecialists #BlackKow #gardentours #travel #Sumatra #ecosystems #carnivorous

Botanical philosopher Norbert Peeters finds the lives of plants endlessly invigorating. Deep in the undergrowth of his local urban hothouse, surrounded by chirping insects and fern fronds, a gigantic inflorescence is unfurling. Colloquially known as 'the penis flower,' the

En el episodio de hoy hablamos de las angiospermas, las plantas con flores y frutos y de su rapidísima diversificación, algo que ha tenido a paleontólogos y biólogos (incluido a Charles Darwin) muy confundidos durante cientos de años. Aquí os dejo un esquema de una flor:500px-Mature_flower_cropped-es.svg.png (500×313) (wikimedia.org) Y aquí una foto de una "flor" del aro gigante (Amorphophallus titanum, yo no le puse el nombre). Lo que vemos en realidad no es una flor, sino una estructura que contiene muchas de ellas juntas:amorphophallus-titanum__550x807.png (550×807) (nationalgeographic.com.es)

Today in botanical history, we celebrate Laurel Hill and Root Crop Preservation in 1835. We'll also remember the botanist who discovered the Titan arum and a little poem about the November garden by Louise Driscoll. We'll hear an excerpt from Pomegranate Soup. We Grow That Garden Library™ with a beautiful garden book from 2016. And then we'll wrap things up with a look back at a charming garden column from 1999.   Subscribe Apple | Google | Spotify | Stitcher | iHeart To listen to the show while you're at home, just ask Alexa or Google to “Play the latest episode of The Daily Gardener Podcast.” And she will. It's just that easy.   The Daily Gardener Friday Newsletter Sign up for the FREE Friday Newsletter featuring: A personal update from me Garden-related items for your calendar The Grow That Garden Library™ featured books for the week Gardener gift ideas Garden-inspired recipes Exclusive updates regarding the show Plus, each week, one lucky subscriber wins a book from the Grow That Garden Library™ bookshelf.   Gardener Greetings Send your garden pics, stories, birthday wishes, and so forth to Jennifer@theDailyGardener.org   Facebook Group If you'd like to check out my curated news articles and original blog posts for yourself, you're in luck. I share all of it with the Listener Community in the Free Facebook Group - The Daily Gardener Community. So, there's no need to take notes or search for links. The next time you're on Facebook, search for Daily Gardener Community, where you'd search for a friend... and request to join. I'd love to meet you in the group.   Curated News Circulating Specimens: History | herbariumworld.wordpress.com | Maura Flannery   Important Events November 16, 1776 On this day, around 7 am Hessian troops allied with the Britsh opened fire on the American revolutionaries on Laurel Hill in Philadelphia. Laurel Hill is not named for the plant called Laurel. Laurel Hill was originally part of the Joseph Sims estate, and Joseph went by "Laurel," the property was named Laurel Hill in his honor. Mountain Laurel is botanically known as Kalmia latifolia in honor of the Finnish botanist Pehr Kalm. After his expedition to North America in the mid-1700s, Pehr correctly predicted that the American colonists would eventually rebel. Laurel Hill became America's first National Historic Landmark Cemetery.   November 16, 1835 On this day, the Hartford Courant wrote a piece called Gardener's Work For November. It is now quite time to [preserve] the roots and ...Mr. McMahon's method of preserving roots is as follows: Previous to the commencement of severe frost, you should take up, with as little injury as possible, the roots of your turnips, carrots, parsnips, beets, salsify, scorzonera, Hamburg, or large-rooted parsley, skirrots, Jerusalem artichokes, turnip-rooted celery, and ...horseradish… On the surface of a dry spot of ground, in a well-sheltered situation, lay a stratum of sand two-inches thick, [the place the root crops], covering them with another layer of sand, (the drier the better,) and…continue to layer about of sand and roots till all are laid in… then cover the heap or ridge [with] a good coat of straw, up and down as if thatching a house.   November 16, 1843 Birth of Odoardo Beccari, Italien botanist. After growing up an orphan, Beccarri managed to get an education in his native Italy, and he eventually traveled to England to study at Kew. Beccarri was friends with Hooker and Darwin, but he also befriended James Brooke, which meant he could spend three years exploring Borneo. During his lifetime, Becarri traveled all over India, Malaysia, and New Zealand. But it was on a little voyage he took to central Sumatra (in Indonesia) in 1878 that Beccarri discovered the plant with which he will forever be associated: the Amorphophallus titanum - or the Titan arum - the largest flower in the world. Seven years later, in 1885, the first Titan arum specimen bloomed at Kew, and when it happened, it created a sensation. Today, a Titan arum bloom still draws thousands of visitors. People love to take a selfie in front of the giant blooming plant. The flower is commonly referred to as the corpse flower as it smells like rotting flesh.   In a recent fascinating article, scent scientists identified the compounds that make up that terrible smell. The odor includes aspects of cheese sweat, rotting fish, decomposing meat, and garlic, among even worse unmentionable compounds. The putrid smell is meant to attract beetles and other insects to move pollen between blooming plants so that they can reproduce. It takes the corpse flower a decade before it can bloom. Incredibly, the plants only bloom for 24-36 hours before collapsing. Between that first bloom at Kew (back in 1885) and the year 2000, fewer than fifty Titan arum blooms had been recorded. But, in 2016, suddenly, dozens of corpse flowers around the world bloomed within weeks of each other. Horticulturists are still attempting to discern the reason for the clustered bloom event.   November 16, 1920 On this day, The Buffalo Times shared a poem by Louise Driscoll that had appeared in The New York Times called November Garden. Here's the first and last verse. In my November garden, I found a larkspur blossoming,  A lovely, radiant blue thing.  It swayed and shone,  And did not seem to know It was alone  In my November garden.  Where dry, dark leaves are falling  And all the birds have flown. The birds and Summer went  A way that no man knows. But here is honey that No bee will find.  No bird will linger at  This larkspur cup. This grace the butterfly  Has left behind. Summer went away And gave it up Yet it is bravely blue Swinging there alone  As if to challenge you!     Unearthed Words It is the pomegranate that gives Fesenjoon its healing capabilities. The original apple of sin, the fruit of a long-gone Eden, the pomegranate shields itself in a leathery crimson shell, which in Roman times was used as a form of protective hide. Once the pomegranate's bitter skin is peeled back, though, a juicy garnet flesh is revealed to the lucky eater, popping and bursting in the mouth like the final succumber of lovemaking. Long ago, when the earth remained still, content with the fecundity of perpetual spring, and Demeter was the mother of all that was natural and flowering, it was this tempting fruit that finally set the seasons spinning. Having eaten six pomegranate seeds in the underworld, Persephone, the Goddess of Spring's high-spirited daughter, had been forced to spend six months of the year in the eternal halls of death. Without her beautiful daughter by her side, a mournful Demeter retreated to the dark corners of the universe, allowing for the icy gates of winter to finally creak open. A round crimson herald of frost, the pomegranate comes to harvest in October and November, so Fesenjoon is best made with its concentrate during other times of the year. ― Marsha Mehran, Pomegranate Soup   Grow That Garden Library Plant by Phaidon Editors  This book came out in 2016, and the subtitle is Exploring the Botanical World. This book is gorgeous. You might remember it - it's got a black background and then a simple blossom design. Each of the leaves is made with a different type of fabric which makes for a magnificent cover. Now, of course, like all Phaidon books, this book is so visually appealing from the cover to the inside of the book. The whole point is to show the beauty and the diversity of plants through 300 works of botanical art that date back from ancient times all the way to modern times. You'll see plants and flowers and the entire botanical world portrayed using a variety of different mediums. Phaidon did a great job of curating all of these images. This is the first book to pull together botanical art across so many different media types and from such a broad timeline and every corner of the globe. Of course, in this book, you're going to see beautiful botanical art, but then you're also going to get lots of expert information about the pieces of art and the plants that are depicted. Phaidon is known for putting together high-level, very specialized books. And in this case, to tackle this broad topic of plants, they pulled together all kinds of experts, museum curators, horticulturists, historians, botanists, and more. Then they had each of them contribute their expertise in creating the text for this book. I love what Gardens Illustrated wrote about this book: "A dazzling collection of more than 300 images of plants that brings the evolution of botanical art right into the 21st century... Alongside old favorites, such as Redoute and Mary Delany, there is much here that is both unfamiliar and arresting... An extraordinary collection."  This book is 352 pages of botanical art that gives us a new appreciation and understanding of plants and their role in our history and culture. You can get a copy of Plant: Exploring the Botanical World by Phaidon Editors and support the show using the Amazon Link in today's Show Notes for around $17.   Today's Botanic Spark Reviving the little botanic spark in your heart November 16, 1999 On this day, The Columbus Telegram shared a column by Elizabeth Coblentz  - an Old Order Amish woman who handwrote her column by lantern light in her Indiana home. November is now on the calendar, and we are still having beautiful days in the 70s. The laundry is drying well out there on the clothesline, and work is continuing in our garden.  I have been taking the celery, carrots, red beets, cabbage, and pumpkins out from the garden today. Hopefully, the weather will stay nice, and some vegetables will grow even larger.  To the reader who sent me radish and turnip seeds to plant: I did plant them in August, and we are now feasting on them. They are very good and tender, which was surprising considering our hot, dry summer.  I put some leftover small potatoes in the ground, and the yield was good. I should have put more sweet potato plants in the ground, but at least we have enough for a good taste this winter. We'll be glad for all this hard work in the garden during the long, cold, dark days of January when we can open those canning jars and taste the bounty of summer.  Sunday evening, we planned a favorite around here for supper: tacos.  We had a large gathering, but having family over is the best of times. Those sweet, precious grandchildren are always welcome here, so the house was full of children. We all enjoy a taco supper. The tomatoes, mangoes (peppers) and onions used on the tacos were all from our garden. Canned hamburger was browned for the tacos, and there was lots more to feast on because everyone else brought a covered dish. As the family gets bigger and older we have to use larger containers now.  Here is a good dessert to use those beets from the garden:   Red Beet Chocolate Cake  1 1/2 cups sugar  3 eggs  1 cup oil  1 1/2 cups cooked, pureed, fresh beets  2 (1 ounce) squares of unsweetened chocolate, melted and cooled  1 teaspoon vanilla  1 3/4 cups flour  1/2 teaspoon salt  1/2 teaspoon baking soda  sifted confectioner's sugar Mix flour, soda, and salt. Set aside. Combine sugar, eggs, and oil in a mixing bowl. Stir vigorously. (People who use electric mixers can use them here at medium speed for 2 minutes.) Beat in beets, chocolate, and vanilla. Gradually add dry ingredients, beating well after each addition. Pour into buttered 9-inch by 13-inch cake pan. Bake at 350 for 25 minutes or till cake tests done when a toothpick inserted into the center of the cake comes out clean. Cool in pan. Cover and let stand overnight to improve flavor. Sprinkle with powdered sugar. PS. You can put cream cheese icing on instead of powdered sugar.   Thanks for listening to The Daily Gardener. And remember: "For a happy, healthy life, garden every day."

Jim works through some difficulties at home. We review the proper recipe for an Old Fashion. It sounds like a sexual position but it is a cocktail. The light hearted new story of the day, the Penis Plant of Leiden, Holland.

Canned Beans and eyeballs… Laptop helpful tip… United Airline guy found… Amorphophallus blooms… Keemstar retires… Dune two gets go ahead… Rust info gets worse… Subscribe to the YouTube Channel… Email to Chewingthefat@theblaze.com Subscribe www.blazetv.com/jeffy / Promo code jeffy… #ShaveHeadSaveHuman  Bathwater Meth… Chlamydia in Koalas… Orangutan twins… Bumble bees missing… Queen is sick… Charles and Billy may not be king… Orbital Reef Space Station... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today in botanical history, we celebrate an American poet and writer, a look back at a one-of-a-kind event at the gardens at Iowa State, and the English gardener who bred phenomenal lupins. We'll hear an excerpt from Thomas Merton's diary entry for October. We Grow That Garden Library™ with an award-winning modern book on scent in the garden. And then we'll wrap things up with the legacy of a college head gardener and how his memory still lives on at the greenhouse.   Subscribe Apple | Google | Spotify | Stitcher | iHeart To listen to the show while you're at home, just ask Alexa or Google to “Play the latest episode of The Daily Gardener Podcast.” And she will. It's just that easy.   The Daily Gardener Friday Newsletter Sign up for the FREE Friday Newsletter featuring: A personal update from me Garden-related items for your calendar The Grow That Garden Library™ featured books for the week Gardener gift ideas Garden-inspired recipes Exclusive updates regarding the show Plus, each week, one lucky subscriber wins a book from the Grow That Garden Library™ bookshelf.   Gardener Greetings Send your garden pics, stories, birthday wishes, and so forth to Jennifer@theDailyGardener.org   Facebook Group If you'd like to check out my curated news articles and original blog posts for yourself, you're in luck. I share all of it with the Listener Community in the Free Facebook Group - The Daily Gardener Community. So, there's no need to take notes or search for links. The next time you're on Facebook, search for Daily Gardener Community, where you'd search for a friend... and request to join. I'd love to meet you in the group.   Curated News 10 Things Your Landscape Architect Wishes You Knew (But Is Too Polite to Tell You) | Gardenista | Barbara Peck   Important Events October 15, 1830 Birth of Helen Hunt Jackson, (pen name H.H.) American poet and writer. She fought for the dignity of Native Americans and wrote about mistreatment by the US government in A Century of Dishonor (1881) and Ramona (1884). Today Helen is remembered for her light-hearted poems like: By all these lovely tokens September days are here, with Summer's best of weather and Autumn's best of cheer. And O suns and skies and clouds of June, And flowers of June together, Ye cannot rival for one hour October's bright blue weather Her poem Vanity of Vanities is a favorite of gardeners. Bee to the blossom, moth to the flame; Each to his passion; what's in a name? Red clover's sweetest, well the bee knows; No bee can suck it; lonely it blows. Deep lies the honey, out of reach, deep; What use in honey hidden to keep? Robbed in the autumn, starving for bread; Who stops to pity a honey-bee dead? Star-flames are brightest, blazing the skies; Only a hand's breadth the moth-wing flies. Fooled with a candle, scorched with a breath; Poor little miller, a tawdry death; Life is a honey, life is a flame; Each to his passion; what's in a name? Swinging and circling, face to the sun, Brief little planet, how it doth run! Bee-time and moth-time, add the amount; white heat and honey, who keeps the count? Gone some fine evening, a spark out-tost! The world no darker for one star lost! Bee to the blossom, moth to the flame; Each to his passion; what's in a name?   October 15, 1897 On this day, The Des Moines Register ran a headline from Ames Iowa: Crowd Ruins Iowa State's Flower Plots. An unfounded rumor that flowers in the Iowa State college gardens could be had for the picking because of an expected frost led to an unprecedented display of vandalism here.  A crowd estimated at 150 to 200 persons Sunday went through the horticulture department gardens, stripping off flowers and pulling up bushes until routed by Ames police.  Officers relieved the mob of most of the flowers they had seized, but members of the horticulture department said the loss would be heavy.  Most of the flowers and plants stripped were being used for experimental work, they added, and the loss, therefore, could not be measured in dollars and cents.  Chrysanthemums sent to Iowa State by E. G. Kraus of the University of Chicago were picked clean.  The flowers were being used In tests to determine resistance to cold weather and the experiment was ruined, officials said. The college gardens are used primarily for research, and their part in campus beautification is secondary.  The college rose garden is one of 16 being used as part of a national research program. Horticulture department members said it never has been college policy to permit picking of flowers by the public, although visitors always have been welcome to come and look at any time. Signs are displayed prominently throughout the gardens warning visitors not to pick anything.  College officials were at a loss to explain how the rumor might have started and said it was the first time the gardens ever had been invaded by any sizeable number of flower pickers.  Ames townspeople and Iowa State college staff members were among those who went through the gardens on the picking spree, police said. Professor E.C. Volz reported that more than a dozen persons, some from nearby towns, stopped at his office Monday to find out where they might get flowers.   October 15, 1951 Death of George Russell, English gardener and plant breeder. He's remembered for his work with lupins and the creation of his stunning Russell Hybrids. George was a professional gardener, but his interest in lupins was ignited after seeing a vase of the blossom at one of his clients, a Mrs. Micklethwaite. When he examined the bloom, he fell in love with the architecture and form of the flower, but he wasn't thrilled by the solid purple color. He reportedly remarked, Now, there's a plant that could stand some improving. Starting at age 54, George spent the next two decades cultivating five thousand lupines every year on his two allotments, and he used bee pollination to develop his hybrids. From each year's crop, just five percent were selected for their seed based on the traits George found most appealing. For over two decades, George kept his lupines to himself. But finally, in 1935, nurseryman James Baker struck a deal with George: his stock of plants in return for a place to live for him and his assistant and the opportunity to continue his work. Two years later, George's lupines - in a rainbow of colors - were the talk of the Royal Horticulture Society flower show. George won a gold medal and a Veitch Memorial Medal for his incredible work. After George died on this day, much of his work died with him. Without his yearly devotion, many of his lupines reverted back to their wild purple color and tendencies or succumbed to Cucumber mosaic virus. Today, Sarah Conibear's ("con-ah-BEER") nursery Westcountry Lupins in North Devon is doing her own exciting work with this plant.  In 2014, her lupines were featured in the Chelsea Flower Show and her red lupin, the Beefeater, is a new favorite with gardeners. Now, the history of Lupins is pretty fascinating. The first lupins in England were sent over from the Mediterranean. Other lupins were found in the Western Hemisphere. During his time in North America, the Swedish botanist Pehr Kalm observed that livestock left lupin alone even though it was green and "soft to the touch." George Russell planted the variety discovered by the botanist David Douglas in British Columbia. Lupins are a plant in motion. They follow the sun in the daytime, but Charles Darwin observed that they sleep "in three different [ways]" when they close their petals at night. Henry David Thoreau wrote about Lupins in his book, Summer. He wrote, Lupin seeds have long been used by the Navajo to make a medicine that not only relieves boils but is a cure for sterility.  [Lupine] is even believed to be effective in producing girl babies.   Unearthed Words Brilliant, windy day—cold. It is fall. It is the kind of day in October that Pop used to talk about. I thought about my grandfather as I came up through the hollow, with the sun on the bare persimmon trees, and a song in my mouth. All songs are, as it were, one's last. I have been grateful for life. ― Thomas Merton, A Year with Thomas Merton: Daily Meditations from His Journals   Grow That Garden Library The Scentual Garden By Ken Druse This book came out in October of 2019, and the subtitle is Exploring the World of Botanical Fragrance. The author Joe Lamp'l said, "A brilliant and fascinating journey into perhaps the most overlooked and under-appreciated dimension of plants. Ken's well-researched information, experience, and perfect examples, now have me appreciating plants, gardens, and designs in a fresh and stimulating way." Ken Druse is a celebrated lecturer and an award-winning author and photographer who has been called "the guru of natural gardening" by the New York Times. He is best known for his 20 garden books published over the past 25 years. And, after reading this book, I immediately began to pay much more attention to fragrance in my garden. The book is 256 illustrated pages of 12 categories of scented plant picks and descriptions for the garden - from plants to shrubs and trees. You can get a copy of The Scentual Garden By Ken Druse and support the show, using the Amazon Link in today's Show Notes for around $40.   Today's Botanic Spark Reviving the little botanic spark in your heart October 15, 1959 On this day, Bloomington's Indiana University captured a photo of head gardener Hugh Wallace Scales (who always went by "Wally") hard at work with the plants in the greenhouse. Today, in memory of Wally, greenhouse staffers have named their prized Amorphophallus titanum (a.k.a. titan arum, corpse flower) "Wally." Wally was the first manager of the Jordan Hall greenhouse, and the building now serves as home to the biology department.  In addition to collecting plants, Wally helped establish the teaching collection and conservatory.   Thanks for listening to The Daily Gardener. And remember: "For a happy, healthy life, garden every day."

The Toronto Zoo Greenhouse is in the middle of showing off its new Amorphophallus bloom that only blooms once every two years. Amber Vitek, who tends to the tropical plants, joins me today to discuss the bloom, its memorable smell, and why it is important to freeze the reproductive parts of the plant.  Amber also tells me of the new @zoogreenhouse account for the Toronto Zoo that shows off the various plants in the Greenhouse.” Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/zoogreenhouse/

Let's talk about a Super Stinky Flower! Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amorphophallus_titanum https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rafflesia

Amorphophallus titanum (The Corpse Flower); Quercus mulier This episode was written, produced, and performed by Nicole Knudsen, with sound design and editing by James Ferrero. Twitter: @thegodfreyguide Instagram: @thegodfreyguide Website: thegodfreyaudioguide.com Visit patreon.com/thegodfreyaudioguide for free episode transcripts, and to become a sustaining member of the show. The Godfrey Audio Guide is produced on unceded Tongva, Chumash, and Kizh territory. Research on corpse flowers was collected from huntington.org/corpse-flower And make sure to check out Booklandia!, whose trailer is featured at the end of the episode!

Today we celebrate an English botanist who discovered which way sap flows in plants. We'll also learn about a female Dutch botanist who fought for equity and is now remembered as a trailblazer. We’ll remember a thoughtful and witty garden writer whose only book became a garden classic. We hear some thoughts on the garden in winter from one of my favorite authors. We Grow That Garden Library™ with a book that shares the story of the French naturalist and medical doctor Aimé Bonpland (“bon-plon”). And then we’ll wrap things up with a little garden trivia in honor of National Trivia Day.   Subscribe Apple | Google | Spotify | Stitcher | iHeart To listen to the show while you're at home, just ask Alexa or Google to “Play the latest episode of The Daily Gardener Podcast.” And she will. It's just that easy.   The Daily Gardener Friday Newsletter Sign up for the FREE Friday Newsletter featuring: A personal update from me Garden-related items for your calendar The Grow That Garden Library™ featured books for the week Gardener gift ideas Garden-inspired recipes Exclusive updates regarding the show Plus, each week, one lucky subscriber wins a book from the Grow That Garden Library™ bookshelf.   Gardener Greetings Send your garden pics, stories, birthday wishes, and so forth to Jennifer@theDailyGardener.org   Curated News Invasive Species Spotlight: Garlic Mustard | Washington Gardener | Jacqueline Hyman   Facebook Group If you'd like to check out my curated news articles and original blog posts for yourself, you're in luck. I share all of it with the Listener Community in the Free Facebook Group - The Daily Gardener Community. So, there’s no need to take notes or search for links. The next time you're on Facebook, search for Daily Gardener Community where you’d search for a friend... and request to join. I'd love to meet you in the group.   Important Events January 4, 1761 Today is the anniversary of the death of the English clergyman, botanist, and physiologist Stephen Hales. Stephen applied himself to many different areas of science. Stephen spent most of his life studying tree sap and blood flow. Do you know the direction sap flows in a plant? Stephen figured this out - it flows upward - and he also examined other fascinating aspects of plants like the sap's pressure, the pressure roots exert on sap, and how fast shoots and leaves grow. He also demonstrated that plants absorb air. Stephen’s curiosity about sap and blood flow led him to become the first person to measure blood flow, blood volume, and blood pressure. Stephen was always thinking about the forces around us - from our internal blood pressure to external air pressure. It’s not surprising that Stephen became curious about air quality and whether improved airflow could help fight typhus. And so, Stephen invented a ventilator to purify stale air. Stephen’s device was essentially large bellows that had to be moved by hand, but they were still effective and were used in ships, prisons, and mines. And there was another use for Stephen’s ventilator: it also preserved and dried food. In the twilight of his life, Stephen had royal visitors. Frederick, Prince of Wales, and his wife, Princess Augusta, both stopped by to discuss gardening and botany. And it was Stephen Hales who gave Princess Augusta advice on the creation of Kew Gardens. Today, Stephen is remembered in the genus for the snowdrop tree, the Halesia carolina. And since 1927, the Stephen Hales Prize is awarded to a scientist who made an outstanding contribution to plant biology science.   January 4, 1883 Today is the birthday of a Dutch plant pathologist and the first female professor in the Netherlands, Johanna Westerdijk, who went by "Hans." In 1906, Johanna completed her thesis on the regeneration of mosses, and she was hired to be the director of a major botanical institute at the ripe old age of 23. By 1917, Johanna became the first female professor in the Netherlands. During her tenure, Johanna supervised 56 doctoral students - half of them women - and she strongly believed in equal opportunities for women. She once said, “I strive for a genuinely equal division of men and women in high positions.” To illustrate how her peers perceived Johanna during her lifetime, check out this excerpt from The Lincoln Star Journal from October 29, 1914. Johanna had traveled to America to visit the Missouri Botanical Garden, and the article was titled, “Woman Botanist Who Smokes and Drinks Publicly.” “A famous woman botanist, who both drinks and smokes In public, is now in the United States. Doctor [Charles] Bessey of the State University met her in St. Louis a short time ago. The name of the peculiar woman is Doctor Johanna Westerdtjk, and she is in charge of the pathological laboratories in Amsterdam.  "She was quite enraged because botanists did not pay quite as much attention to her in St. Louis as she thought she deserved," said Doctor Bessey.  "She insists that women should have the same rights as men and is in rebellion against American conventions. In large hotels, wherever it is permissible, she stays up late and drinks and smokes In the lobby."  Doctor Bessey has a picture of all the botanists in attendance at the Missouri Botanical Gardens' anniversary.  There is Miss Johanna Westerdijk, cigarette in hand. She appears to be the only one of any of the men or women in the picture who is smoking. Doctor Bessey believes that there is little danger of the learned doctor coming as far as Lincoln on her American travels.” Joanna led an all-female team of scientists who identified the fungus that caused Dutch Elm disease. Joanna’s Dutch Elm Committee was a group she formed on her own to fund additional research for elm disease. Johanna was a pioneer in plant pathology and fungi, and her system is still used to classify species. Today Johanna is remembered for some great quotes: “Both work and play are needed to create a beautiful mind.” and "Even fungus dies from a dull and monotonous life."  Today, at the university, there’s a wall showing the photos of all the professors of her time - all men, of course - and right there, in the lower bottom left frame, is a painting of Johanna. And almost four years ago, on February 12, 2017, the Fungal Biodiversity Centre Institute was renamed the Westerdijk Institute in honor of Joanna. She served as the Institute’s Director for over fifty years. Today, the Westerdijk Institue is the largest microbial, fungal resource center in the world.   January 4, 1918 Today is the birthday of the American writer and gardener Eleanor Perenyi. We lost Eleanor in 2009, at the age of 91. Her book, Green Thoughts, is widely considered to be a classic of garden writing. Sadly, it was Eleanor's only book. Eleanor wrote about working in her Connecticut garden, and she was not a fan of rock gardens, chemical pesticides, or petunias. She once called petunias, “as hopelessly impractical as a chiffon ball dress.” And her book Green Thoughts gives us many more witty quotes and sayings from Eleanor. Here are a few of my favorites: “A little studied negligence is becoming to a garden.” “The double hoops for peonies are beyond-description maddening to unfold and set in place.  Two people are needed, one of them with better control of his temper than I have.” “I ordered a modern purple martin house myself  and proceeded to construct a dreadful object:  unpainted, it looked like a cheap motel;  painted blue and white, it looked like a cheap Greek motel  and had to be thrown out.” “A killing frost devastates the heart as well as the garden.” And finally, here's a quote for gardeners who are too hard on themselves. Eleanor recognized that this happens - quite a bit. “It takes a while to grasp that not all failures are self-imposed - the result of ignorance, carelessness, or inexperience.  It takes a while to grasp that a garden  isn't a testing ground for character  and to stop asking,  “What did I do wrong?”  Maybe nothing.”   Unearthed Words I have had to enjoy the winter garden vicariously, with the help of books. The best for this purpose I’ve found is Elizabeth Lawrence’s new one. Gardens in Winter (Harper), which has allowed me to share the delights of the author’s garden in Charlotte, North Carolina, as well as the gardens and woods she knows from her wide reading. Miss Lawrence is a classicist and can cite Virgil and the English poets as freely as she does Gertrude Jekyll and Jane Loudon. In this volume, she leads us most often to the English garden of Canon Henry Ellacombe, from whose two books In a Gloucestershire Garden (1896) and In My Vicarage Garden (1902) she often quotes. She also takes us to Walden Pond and Concord, in the winter sections of Thoreau’s Journal. In North Carolina, Miss Lawrence says, there are two springs—the first in autumn, just after the killing frosts, and then the true spring, which starts on St. Valentine’s Day—but she reminds us that it was Thoreau who wrote, “All the year is a spring,” and her book seems to prove this to be true, even in the North. She has collected winter-garden notes and-flowering dates from her network of correspondents all over the United States and shares these with her readers. Though we Northerners will envy her her iris and camellias in November, her roses and hardy cyclamens in December, and her violets and hoopskirt daffodils in January, she shows us that all winter, even in the most frigid and unlikely spots, there are flowers or shrubs in bloom or, at the very least, in fruit, if we look for them carefully. — Katharine S. White, gardener and garden writer, Onward and Upward in the Garden,   Grow That Garden Library A Life in Shadow by Stephen Bell This book came out in 2010, and the subtitle is Aimé Bonpland in Southern South America, 1817–1858. In this book, Stephen shares the story of the French naturalist and medical doctor Aimé Bonpland, one of the most important South American scientific explorers in the early nineteenth century. Working alongside Alexander von Humboldt, Aimé later conducted his own research and went much farther south than Humboldt. Stephen outlines Aimé’s movements through Argentina, Paraguay (where he was imprisoned for nearly a decade), Uruguay, and south Brazil. By exploring the interior of South America, Aimé’s experience is a unique account of the natural world - along with the social and economic circumstances of the era. Stephen’s well-researched book is no longer in print, but you can still find rare copies online. This book is 336 pages of fascinating history, showing Aimé Bonpland’s life in rich detail. You can get a used copy of A Life in Shadow by Stephen Bell and support the show using the Amazon Link in today's Show Notes for around $62   Today’s Botanic Spark Reviving the little botanic spark in your heart Today is National Trivia Day, and in honor of that, I thought I’d close today’s show with some Garden Trivia with you.   Questions: Are Almonds in the rose family? What is the world’s tallest tree? In the 1600s, what flower had the most value? Where was the Poinsettia discovered? What is the largest flower in the world?   Answers: Yes - along with apples, peaches, pears, cherries, raspberries, strawberries, and more   The coast redwood (Sequoia sempervirens) The Tulip. In the 1600s in Holland, tulips were worth more than gold and caused the crash of the Dutch economy.  The craze was called tulip mania or tulipomania.   Mexico. In 1825, the first U.S. minister to Mexico, Joel Poinsett, introduced the plant to America. The titan arum (Amorphophallus titanium)   Thanks for listening to The Daily Gardener. And remember: "For a happy, healthy life, garden every day."

Horticulture enthusiasts lined up to take a whiff of the corpse flower (Amorphophallus titanum), Vincent Van Gross, whose name describes its smell. With blooms occurring once every 6-10 years and lasting for about 36 hours, this was a must-see at your Toronto Zoo! Clare Wharton joins me on the podcast to discuss the organization of the plant collection, why the corpse flower has an awful smell, and how it’s linked to the plant's reproduction success. 

With the third Symposium "Women on Earth" we were seeking to understand the relations between feminism and species coexistence. The issue of nature—and of all that is naturalized or deemed unnatural by hegemonic discourses and policy—is of particular importance to gender issues, as is science. But a scientific and technical approach to the climate emergency cannot be accurate without taking into consideration how gender, racial, and economic violence foster our emergent ecocides, nor by how women—often poor and Indigenous women—are overwhelmingly at the forefront of this violence as the very first recipients of. What kind of political and cultural transformation must occur to make these entanglements obvious and of vital concern? How to counter this violence in all its manifold forms?Our guests were: Rossella Biscotti, Neha Choksi, Ingela Ihrman, Institute of Queer Ecology, Sophie Jung, Lysann König, Thomas Lempertz, Agnes Meyer-Brandis, New Mineral Collective (Tanya Busse and Emilija Škarnulytė), Katrin Niedermeier, Heather Phillipson, Mathilde Rosier, Lena Maria Thüring.In this episode artist Rossella Biscotti presents her body of works dealing with ancient storytelling and both biological and psychological phenomena like growth and resilience.Artist Rossella Biscotti's (born in Molfetta, Italy, lives and works in Brussels and Rotterdam) artistic oeuvre encompasses videos, photographs and sculptural work. She uses montage as a gesture to reveal individual narratives and their relation to society. In her cross-media practice, cutting across filmmaking, performance and sculpture, she explores and reconstructs obscured moments from recent times, often against the backdrop of state institutions. In the process of composing her personal encounters and oral interrogations into new stories, the site of investigation tends to leave its mark on her sculptures and installations. By examining the relevance of the recovered material from a contemporary perspective, Biscotti sensibly weaves a link to the present.

With the third Symposium "Women on Earth" we were seeking to understand the relations between feminism and species coexistence. The issue of nature—and of all that is naturalized or deemed unnatural by hegemonic discourses and policy—is of particular importance to gender issues, as is science. But a scientific and technical approach to the climate emergency cannot be accurate without taking into consideration how gender, racial, and economic violence foster our emergent ecocides, nor by how women—often poor and Indigenous women—are overwhelmingly at the forefront of this violence as the very first recipients of. What kind of political and cultural transformation must occur to make these entanglements obvious and of vital concern? How to counter this violence in all its manifold forms? Our guests were: Rossella Biscotti, Neha Choksi, Ingela Ihrman, Institute of Queer Ecology, Sophie Jung, Lysann König, Thomas Lempertz, Agnes Meyer-Brandis, New Mineral Collective (Tanya Busse and Emilija Škarnulytė), Katrin Niedermeier, Heather Phillipson, Mathilde Rosier, Lena Maria Thüring. In this episode artist Rossella Biscotti presents her body of works dealing with ancient storytelling and both biological and psychological phenomena like growth and resilience. Artist Rossella Biscotti’s (born in Molfetta, Italy, lives and works in Brussels and Rotterdam) artistic oeuvre encompasses videos, photographs and sculptural work. She uses montage as a gesture to reveal individual narratives and their relation to society. In her cross-media practice, cutting across filmmaking, performance and sculpture, she explores and reconstructs obscured moments from recent times, often against the backdrop of state institutions. In the process of composing her personal encounters and oral interrogations into new stories, the site of investigation tends to leave its mark on her sculptures and installations. By examining the relevance of the recovered material from a contemporary perspective, Biscotti sensibly weaves a link to the present.

Today we celebrate the Frenchman who designed the very first secateurs or pruners and the Italian orphan who grew up to discover the corpse flower. We'll learn about the Dutch botanist who was trying to figure out what was going on with his tobacco plants and made a significant discovery for science. We'll hear the Autumn Garden Poem that highlights the crimson of the sumac and the woodbine "For the pageant of passing days." We Grow That Garden Library with a cookbook called Flowers in the Kitchen by Susan Belsinger. I'll talk about gathering up your empty containers and pots as well as protecting any ironwork, and then we'll travel back in time to 1875 to hear some thoughts about Autumn Work in the garden.   But first, let's catch up on a few recent events.     Earlier this month, on October 10th, the world celebrated World Mental Health Day.  There was a lovely article featured in Thrive - an organization using gardening to change lives. "As a charity focussed on promoting the health benefits of gardening, Thrive knows how time spent in gardens and nature can bring significant mental health benefits. [They] see and hear how it helps people cope when times are tough." "We see how gardening can reduce stress and anxiety, how the process of nurturing plants can give fragile people a sense of achievement which in turn builds confidence, self-esteem, quality of life and, ultimately, hope."   Most gardeners often joke that gardening is cheaper than therapy. But the truth is that gardening is therapeutic. Connecting with nature is restoratives. Monty Don, Gardeners' World presenter, said this about gardening,   "However you come at it, whoever prescribes it or gets you to do it, gardening heals."   Thrive shared the comments of young people they had worked within the garden. The kids were 12-16 years old with severe psychological and psychiatric disorders like bulimia and anorexia. They worked in the garden and reported: ‘Gardening takes my mind off things.’ ‘I feel happier and less anxious.’ ‘It has helped me be more sociable and to be able to distract myself when I feel bad.’    This is why, at The Daily Gardener, I make a point of giving you ideas and ways to keep connecting with nature all year long - even throughout the winter. It's why I end the show every day with: "For a happy, healthy life, garden every day."    So, there you go - the best reason to garden - staying physically healthy and mentally healthy. If you see or know of someone struggling, please tell them about the surprising benefits of gardening.   Here's a friendly reminder to keep visiting your farmer's markets and local farmers.    They still have plenty of excellent produce to buy. Think pears, apples, winter squash, pumpkin, brussel sprouts, broccoli, parsnips, beets, and sweet potatoes. And, if you feel so inclined,  bring along an extra hot chocolate or coffee for the sellers, I know they always appreciate that this time of year and who knows? You might just make a new friend.     Now, if you'd like to check out these curated articles for yourself, you're in luck- because I share all of it with the Listener Community in the Free Facebook Group - The Daily Gardener Community. So there’s no need to take notes or track down links - just head on over to the group - and join.  Brevities #OTD  Today is the birthday of Count Bertrand de Molleville, who was born on this day - 275 years ago - in 1744. During the French Revolution, Molleville escaped to England, where he developed the secateurs or the pruner. He created them to help with pruning grapevines - something he was all too familiar with back home in France. Before the secateurs, a knife or small machete was the primary tool used to prune grapes vines and fruit trees. That said, by 1840, there was actually a riot over the use of the secateurs in a small French town. When the town agricultural committee met to decide whether the secateurs should replace the pruning knife in the vineyards, over 300 farm workers showed up and marched in the streets to protest the decision.  The workers felt that the humble secateurs would replace the need for so many vinedressers. Ah, technology.     #OTD On this day in 1843 the New England Farmer shared a simple update to the nation:  Wisconsin, it is said, will have for sale this year, 1,000,000 bushels of wheat.   #OTD  Today is the anniversary of the death of Odoardo Beccari, who died on this day in 1920. After growing up an orphan, Beccarri managed to get an education in his native Italy, and he eventually traveled to England to study at Kew. Beccarri was friends with Hooker and Darwin, but he also befriended James Brooke, which meant he was able to spend three years exploring Borneo. During his lifetime, Becarri traveled all over India, Malaysia, and New Zealand. But it was on a little voyage he took to central Sumatra (in Indonesia) in 1878 that Beccarri discovered the plant with which he will forever be associated: the Amorphophallus titanum - or the Titan arum- the largest flower in the world. Seven years later, in 1885, the first Titan arum specimen bloomed at Kew, and when it happened, it created a sensation. Today, the Titan arum bloom still draws thousands of visitors. People love to take a selfie in front of the giant blooming plant. The flower is commonly referred to as the corpse flower as it smells like rotting flesh.  In a fascinating article, scent scientists recently identified the compounds that make up that terrible smell. The odor includes aspects of cheese sweat, rotting fish, decomposing meat, and garlic, among even worse items that I won't mention here. And, it takes the corpse flower a decade before it can bloom. The putrid smell is meant to attract beetles and other insects to move pollen between blooming plants so that it can reproduce. Incredibly, the plants only bloom for 24-36 hours before collapsing. Between that first bloom at Kew (back in 1885) and the year 2000, fewer than 50 Titan arum blooms had been recorded. But, in 2016, suddenly dozens of corpse flowers around the world bloomed within weeks of each other. Horticulturists are still attempting to discern the reason for the clustered bloom event.     #OTD  During this week in 1990, the Longview Newspaper shared a cautionary article about the upcoming flu season. Buried in the story was this reminder: "A hundred years ago, a Dutch botanist discovered a disease-carrying micro-organism smaller than bacteria and called it a virus, the Latin word for poison." The unnamed botanist was Martinus Beijerinck (pronounced “by-a-rink”), who was searching for the reason tobacco plants were dying. In his research, Beijerinck ground up some diseased tobacco leaves and then pressed the juices through a bacteria filter. He was utterly shocked when the filtered, bacteria-free liquid still spread the disease. After reviewing his experiment, Beijerinck concluded that a "contagious living fluid" was the culprit, and he called it a virus. Today, two of the most common viruses are the flu and the common cold.     #OTD  Today is the 8th anniversary of the death of the botanist Bernard Verdcourt or who died on this day in 2011. For over 60 years, Bernard Verdcourt was known as "BV" to his colleagues at Kew. Verdcourt specialized in East African flora, and he had an unrivaled knowledge of around 4,000 species. He was also an expert on snails and slugs. (Kind of a unique combination of interests). Verdcourt's passion for snails was a hobby he happily cultivated. Somehow he found time to publish work on mollusks in addition to the 1,000 articles he wrote about botany. He wrote all of his 1220 papers and books by hand. Rumor has it that the Kew typing pool felt BV had the second most terrible handwriting at Kew. BV didn't shy away from controversy. He enjoyed bringing adversaries together to watch them work through their issues. He couldn't abide fools or sports. He could be cantankerous, but he was also kind and helpful to young botanists.        Unearthed Words   Autumn Song Shall we not grow with the asters? - Never reluctant nor sad, Not counting the cost of being, Living to dare and be glad. Shall we not lift with the crickets A chorus of ready cheer, Braving the frost of oblivion, Quick to be happy here? The deep red cones of the sumach And the woodbine's crimson sprays Have bannered the common roadside For the pageant of passing days. These are the oracles Nature Fills with her holy breath, Giving them glory of color, Transcending the shadow of death. - Bliss Cameron, Canadian Poet Laureate     Now it's time to Grow That Garden Library with today's book: Flowers in the Kitchen by Susan Belsinger.   As Susan reminds us in the intro to her cookbook, "Petals or whole blossoms of many common garden flowers add color, flavor, and drama to simple recipes." Susan incorporates 50 different flowers into her recipes - from Borage and Fennel flowers to Marigolds and Pineapple Sage flowers. Each flower is introduced with a photo followed by growing hints and instructions for preparing them for the recipe that follows.  This book came out in 1990. You can get used copies using the Amazon Link in today's Show Notes for under $2. This book intrigued me so much that I went back and looked at what newspapers were saying about it in 1990.  When they featured Susan's book, newspapers shared some of her go-to recipes like: Golden Corn Muffin with Calendula Petals, Herbed Cucumber Dip with Borage Blossoms (the borage supposedly echos the taste of the cucumber), Berries with Sweet Woodruff, Dandelion Mushrooms, Nasturtiums Stuffed with Albacore Tuna, Nasturtiums with Guacamole, and my favorite, Marigold Rice - which I think sounds perfect for the holidays. Today's Garden Chore Todays a great day to gather up your collections in the garden; look for empty containers, pots, and garden ornaments. There are a few things I use outside to keep my extra pots and garden items looking great. First, I like to use ironwork like an old bakers rack or iron stand of some kind for stacking my clay pots. I line the inside of the pot with burlap before stacking the pots, so they don't stick together. Second, for my ironwork, all of that will get one last shot of clearcoat (ideally) before winter sets in. This year, it sounds like the cold is really coming early - just in time for Halloween. Lastly, consider bringing a few items indoors to enjoy during the winter. Some of my favorite pieces are things that weren't necessarily the star of the show outside - but they transform into something wonderfully grounding when you bring them indoors. Think of old cracked containers or items with patina. I love to pair an older, smaller container with one of the robin's nests that survived over the summer. They all come indoors and add a touch of something natural and rustic, which is quite lovely when layered in with the more refined decor of a home.     Something Sweet  Reviving the little botanic spark in your heart We're going to travel back in time, about 144 years ago, and read William Taylor's thoughts on Autumn Work that he shared in The Nottinghamshire Guardian on this day in 1875. He wrote: WHAT a relief to the flower gardener to bid farewell to the summer of 1875!   The work has been quite double that of ordinary seasons; weeds and grass have grown as they never grew before, while the more tender plants in beds have scarcely grown at all.   Now and then, we had a gleam of sunshine to cheer and encourage us to make another effort, and again and again, as soon as we began to get a little tidy came a thunderstorm or a hurricane, thwarting all our attempts at neatness.   Gardeners, however, never give up for [such] trifles, and it is not till October is here that we acknowledge ourselves beaten.   The trees are now putting on their autumnal tints; Elms and Tulip Trees are being arrayed in the brightest of gold, [...]    Leaves of every hue are playing about in the gentle breeze as they fall to rustle beneath our feet. What a mistake to run after every leaf with a barrow and a besom as it falls!  What a waste of time and a want of taste!   Gather them up certainly before they begin to decay on the walks and so discolor them. But, employers, please remember that October is a month in which trimness is impossible out-of-doors, and if it were not impossible, it would still be undesirable.   And there is another reason for not insisting on too much trimness in October; it is a month in which the professional gardener has two seasons at once. In one respect, his new year begins somewhere about Michaelmas, the same time as the Russian Violet commences flowering. Forcing has to be prepared for in earnest, planting pushed forward with all possible speed—evergreens first, and fruit trees immediately afterwards.   Pruning has also to be finished, with the modern gardener, before Christmas, and where there is much to do must be commenced with early. Currants are already fit for the secateurs; Gooseberries will shortly be, then Plums, Morellos, and Peaches. After the first leaves are ripe, the sooner such trees are pruned, the better.   The secateurs, or French pruning-shears, is a very handy little instrument; its total length is about 9 inches, and its weight half a pound. It can be gripped with the whole hand, and consequently does not tire the operator like the ordinary shears; it cuts clean as a knife, and by its aid, the pruner can do his work much faster than with a knife. No one who has used it for one season will go without it till a better instrument is invented, which will probably be some time first.   Digging, trenching, potting bedding plants, planting box-edging, laying turf, storing fruit and vegetables, sheltering tender plants, and a multiplicity of other things too numerous to write of, all want doing now, and it is altogether an exceedingly busy month.   Gardeners generally have [less work] during August and September. They are enabled to look round themselves at home, and often to make a little tour and pick up useful hints from others of the fraternity; they then begin about October with renewed vigor to work for another year.   This year, however, I know many have found it impossible to keep up with their work, and consequently, anything like relaxation has been out of the question. [...] The work is so exciting and so intensely satisfying that it is almost impossible for an enthusiast to think of his health while he is behind with his work, and consequently, many go on till nature can no longer stand it. I would ask employers, then, if they happen to possess an excellent and enthusiastic gardener whom they value, to be careful just now and not tax him too much, for there are some hundreds at this moment which if they had another straw placed on their backs would breakdown. But enough of this.   Autumn is here. Bright and breezy autumn, I give you a hearty welcome; you shut out of sight forever our dismal wintry summer; you release me from floricultural millinery, and put an end for a time to my polychromatic disappointments. I go to enjoy my vacation with a spade and a pruning-hook, for the most perfect rest is a change of occupation.—William Taylor.       Thanks for listening to the daily gardener, and remember: "For a happy, healthy life, garden every day."

Every ones complaining about everything getting remade into a movie, but the amount of shit that got cartoons is staggering.

Biri taa Angola’daki çölün ıssızlıklarından, diğeri Sumatra adasının balta girmemiş yağmur ormanlarından… 1800’lerin sonunda bulunup getirilmiş, tuhaf mı tuhaf iki bitki: Welwitschiae mirabilis ve Amorphophallus Titanum (Ceset Çiçeği)

Amorphophallus titanum, better known as the corpse flower, is one of the Garden’s superstar plants. These stinky, rare blooms attract thousands of visitors intrigued by their foul odor and towering height. How has the corpse flower been accurately (and inaccurately) portrayed as a character in pop culture? Are the references in Dennis the Menace (“The 40 Year Orchid”) and The Simpsons (“Sumatran Century Flower”) based in science or fiction?

SHOW NOTE เริ่มตอน ครึ่งชั่วโมงแรก ทักทาย+อัพเดทเรื่องราวชีวิตป๋องแป๋ง อาบัน และแทนไท เข้าเรื่องกามพฤกษ์ TOP 5 - ดอกไม้กามวิตถาร (เริ่มประมาณนาที 40:00) No. 1 - ดอกเนื้อ ดอกเน่า ดอกศพ ดอกขี้ ทั้งหลาย Aristolochia gigantea   Aristolochia grandiflora Amorphophallus titanum ดอกบุกแบบอื่นๆ / บุกคางคก      อุตพิด   Rafflesia  Stapelia   No.2 - มะเดื่อกับตัวต่อ (Figs & Fig wasps) ผลมะเดื่อสุก ดอกอยู่ข้างในโครงสร้างที่ชื่อ Syconium มีแค่รูเล็กๆ ให้มุดเข้าไปได้เรียก Ostiole ต่อตัวเมีย ขนาดเล็กเท่ารูเข็ม มุดเข้าไป สลัดปีกสลัดหนวดระหว่างทาง   ต่อวางไข่ใส่ดอกของมะเดื่อ ไข่โตเป็นตัวอ่อน ต่อตัวผู้ ฟักออกมาก่อน ลักษณะตัวขาวๆ ไม่มีปีก ตัวผู็หาพี่น้องตัวเมีย แล้วผสมพันธุ์ จากนั้นขุดอุโมงค์ไปออกที่ผิวมะเดื่อ แล้วก็ตาย ต่อตัวเมียโต พอดีกับเกสรตัวผู้มะเดื่อสุก คลุกเกสรแล้วหาทางออกผ่านอุโมงค์ที่ตัวผู้เจาะไว้ให้ พอไปเจอมะเดื่อลูกถัดไปก็มุดเข้าไปวางไข่ ครบวงจรชีวิต ระหว่างทำก็ผสมเกสรให้มะเดื่อไปด้วย ต่อบางชนิดมีวงจรชีวิตแบบโกงมะเดื่อ คือไม่ยอมมุด ไม่ยอมผสมเกสร แต่ใช้วิธีเจาะท่อวางไข่จากข้างนอกเลย เรียก non-pollinating fig wasp   No. 3 - Sex Marketing ในโลกของกล้วยไม้ Ophrys ดอกมีรูปลักษณ์และกลิ่นเป็นตัวเมียปลอม https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUMzVEjT0y4 Hammer orchid (Drakaea)   Richard Dawkins: bees and deceitful plants (1991) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmgKABRCZpo Bucket orchid - Coryanthes     An Orchid's Trap | Wings of Life https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_uHJGdTgtXE   no.4 - โรงแรมบัวร้อน - floral thermogenesis  ในบัววิคตอเรีย   ซ้ายคือสภาพดอกวันแรก / ขวาวันที่สอง เกสรตัวผู้สุก + ห้องค่อนข้างเละจากกิจกรรมของด้วง   No.5 - หนุ่มน้อยเป่าแป้ง (Axenaea) - pollen blast รวมลิงค์ที่มาข้อมูล http://mentalfloss.com/article/85340/fig-pollination-incredible-and-probably-results-you-eating-mummified-wasps https://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/love-the-fig https://www.esa.org/esablog/research/the-story-of-the-fig-and-its-wasp/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fig_wasp http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20160429-a-tale-of-loyalty-and-betrayal-starring-figs-and-wasps https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.1365-2699.1996.tb00006.x https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pollination_syndrome http://cloudmind.info/flower-the-photos-of-the-worst-smelling-flowers-in-the-world/ http://frog-and-toad-are-friends.tumblr.com/post/114737998748/and-while-im-here-you-talk-about-animals-every https://thechickandthedead.com/2014/07/21/carrion-gardening/ https://www.theguardian.com/science/2011/oct/09/orchid-sex-botany-ziegler-pollan https://io9.gizmodo.com/why-did-plants-evolve-these-weird-and-horrific-flowers-1621701775 https://bloomingplants.wordpress.com/2014/07/10/weird_pollination/ http://www.momtastic.com/webecoist/2010/02/15/deception-trickery-in-plants-12-masters-of-disguise/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2803590/ https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn25839-frisky-flower-uses-bellows-to-blast-pollen-at-birds/

Migrant smuggling has expanded dramatically and is so prevalent in Europe it is now comparable to the illegal drugs market, a new report has warned. Former Catalan president Artur Mas was banned from holding office for two years on Monday for his role in organising an illegal 2015 independence referendum. The Spanish coastal city of Alicante on Tuesday morning began cleanup duties following the biggest downpour in recent memory. Rainfall in the popular Mediterranean destination was a whopping 137 litres per square meter (equivalent to 137mm), half of which came down in the space of just two hours. That makes the past 24 hours the city’s third-rainiest day in the last 80 years, A former safety official for Spain's state railway operator has been charged with homicide over a 2013 train derailment that left 80 people dead, according to a judicial ruling released Monday. Benidorm Local Police detained in the early hours of Friday morning, one of the ten most wanted by the UK, a 25 year old Brian Gareth Edwards who is face three life sentences for violence and burglaries with intimidation and drug trafficking. THE tallest flower in the world has blossomed for the first time in Spain. The suitably-named phallic looking Amorphophallus orchid, which is three metres tall, has burst into flower at Estepona’s Orchidarium. Spain has warned Scotland it would be at the 'back of the queue' for EU membership if it voted for independence. Foreign minister Alfonso Dastis said Spain would do nothing to encourage 'secession' in other countries. The Spanish government has a long dispute with its own Catalonia region. First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has unveiled plans for a snap re-run of the 2014 independence referendum in a bid to preserve Scotland's place in Europe. The SNP leader has infuriated Prime Minister Theresa May with her demand for a poll between autumn 2018 and spring 2019 before Brexit is finalised. The Queen is throwing open the doors of Buckingham Palace and Windsor Castle to Commonwealth leaders as the UK looks to forge new trade relations ahead of Brexit. Prime ministers and presidents from more than 50 countries will gather for meetings in the royal residences during a summit next year. A man who was stabbed 36 times by his neighbour says he has been advised to steer clear of a large part of his home town because his attacker is back on the streets. Victim Terry Robinson was horrified when he received a letter from the probation service explaining that paranoid schizophrenic Dean Marshall has been granted 'escorted leaves for rehabilitation purposes'. A drunken ex-police officer whose bull terrier savaged a five-year-old boy and his mother as she stood by doing nothing to help was today spared jail. Half of employers do not think that graduates generally have the workplace skills they need when they are first hired, according to a report. It suggests that many university leavers are lacking essential qualities, such as teamwork and problem-solving when they enter the job market. Pupil's happiness is to be made a greater priority in schools after the government announced plans to promote wellbeing in the classroom. The Department of Education is set to trial mindfulness lessons whereby pupils as young as eight meditate and and do breathing exercises to reduce stress. Exam age students are to trial hour-long classes, designed to teach them how to cope with stress and deeper mental health issues such as depression and anxiety.

An Amorphophallus titanium bloomed on the NC State campus last year. We meet the plant’s owner and discover what weird plants can teach us.

YouTubeDustin's guest appearances* Utah Outcasts* Secular Stories* Forgot to share the link from Waiting 4 Wrath DUSTING OFF THE DEGREE - The Trinity THIS DAY IN HISTORY - February 4* 1677 – Johann Ludwig Bach, German violinist and composer* 1913 – Rosa Parks, American activist (d. 2005)* 1940 – George A. Romero, American director and producer* 1947 – Dan Quayle, American sergeant, lawyer, and politician, 44th Vice President of the United States* 1948 – Alice Cooper, American singer-songwriter and actor* 1967 – Lunar Orbiter program: Lunar Orbiter 3 lifts off from Cape Canaveral's Launch Complex 13 on its mission to identify possible landing sites for the Surveyor and Apollo spacecraft* 2004 – Facebook, a mainstream online social networking site, is founded by Mark Zuckerberg* 2006 – A stampede occurs in the PhilSports Arena near Manila, killing 71 people SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY* Fungus from Antarctica survived Martian conditions simulated aboard ISS* The rotten smelling Amorphophallus titanum to bloom next week* Method developed to restore the bacterial benefits of vaginal birth to c-section babies POLITICS AND RELIGION * State Legislatures Behaving Badly  - Florida house committee passes abortion ban | via Progressive Secular Humanist  - Washington state senate committee passes transgender bathroom bill | Transgender People's Bodies Are ‘Security Concerns' | State Rep. Graham Hunt quits over military-service exaggerations  - Oklahoma has several anti-gay bills | via Raw Story via via Addicting Info  - Utah senate resolution would declare porn a public health crisis | Full bill  - Utah house bill would give opposite sex couples preference in adoption  - Idaho house's proposed constitutional amendment would allow state funds to go to religious schools* Bundy occupation update* Religion headed to extinction in nine countries* Lunch meeting between French and Iranian Presidents canceled over wineHarlem church of James “There's semen in my coffee” Manning to be sold at auction | via Joe My God | Gays trying to buy his church FEEDBACK ‎Travis Megee‎ via Facebook New iTunes review Email us at contact@atheistnomads.com or call us at (541) 203-0666. This episode is brought to you by: Nuclear Sponsor - US$20.00 - US$35.00 per month* Russ from the Kitsap Atheists & Agnostics* Travis Megee* Vernware* Frank* Darryl Goossen* Robert Ray from the Humanists of the North Puget SoundPlatinum Sponsor - US$8.00 - US$19.00 per month* Virginia Dawn* Paul Burkey* BT Motley* George* Hugh MannGold Sponsor - US$4.00 - US$7.00 per month* Mark* Gary from Idaho Atheists* The Flying Skeptic* Renee Davis-Pelt* Alex* Mike Price* Mark* LaTonya* Duncan* Jaded ZappaBronze Sponsor - < US$4.00 per month* Mark* Peter* Heather* Shawn Archway Hosting provides full featured web hosting for a fraction of the cost of traditional shared hosting. You get all the benefits of shared hosting, without the sticker shock or extra fees. Check them out at archwayhosting.com. You can find us online at www.atheistnomads.com, follow us on Twitter @AtheistNomads, like us on Facebook, email us at contact@atheistnomads.com, and leave us a voice mail message at (541) 203-0666. Theme music is provided by Sturdy Fred.

YouTubeDustin’s guest appearances* Utah Outcasts* Secular Stories* Forgot to share the link from Waiting 4 Wrath DUSTING OFF THE DEGREE - The Trinity THIS DAY IN HISTORY - February 4* 1677 – Johann Ludwig Bach, German violinist and composer* 1913 – Rosa Parks, American activist (d. 2005)* 1940 – George A. Romero, American director and producer* 1947 – Dan Quayle, American sergeant, lawyer, and politician, 44th Vice President of the United States* 1948 – Alice Cooper, American singer-songwriter and actor* 1967 – Lunar Orbiter program: Lunar Orbiter 3 lifts off from Cape Canaveral's Launch Complex 13 on its mission to identify possible landing sites for the Surveyor and Apollo spacecraft* 2004 – Facebook, a mainstream online social networking site, is founded by Mark Zuckerberg* 2006 – A stampede occurs in the PhilSports Arena near Manila, killing 71 people SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY* Fungus from Antarctica survived Martian conditions simulated aboard ISS* The rotten smelling Amorphophallus titanum to bloom next week* Method developed to restore the bacterial benefits of vaginal birth to c-section babies POLITICS AND RELIGION * State Legislatures Behaving Badly  - Florida house committee passes abortion ban | via Progressive Secular Humanist  - Washington state senate committee passes transgender bathroom bill | Transgender People’s Bodies Are ‘Security Concerns’ | State Rep. Graham Hunt quits over military-service exaggerations  - Oklahoma has several anti-gay bills | via Raw Story via via Addicting Info  - Utah senate resolution would declare porn a public health crisis | Full bill  - Utah house bill would give opposite sex couples preference in adoption  - Idaho house’s proposed constitutional amendment would allow state funds to go to religious schools* Bundy occupation update* Religion headed to extinction in nine countries* Lunch meeting between French and Iranian Presidents canceled over wineHarlem church of James “There’s semen in my coffee” Manning to be sold at auction | via Joe My God | Gays trying to buy his church FEEDBACK ‎Travis Megee‎ via Facebook New iTunes review Email us at contact@atheistnomads.com or call us at (541) 203-0666. This episode is brought to you by: Nuclear Sponsor - US$20.00 - US$35.00 per month* Russ from the Kitsap Atheists & Agnostics* Travis Megee* Vernware* Frank* Darryl Goossen* Robert Ray from the Humanists of the North Puget SoundPlatinum Sponsor - US$8.00 - US$19.00 per month* Virginia Dawn* Paul Burkey* BT Motley* George* Hugh MannGold Sponsor - US$4.00 - US$7.00 per month* Mark* Gary from Idaho Atheists* The Flying Skeptic* Renee Davis-Pelt* Alex* Mike Price* Mark* LaTonya* Duncan* Jaded ZappaBronze Sponsor - < US$4.00 per month* Mark* Peter* Heather* Shawn Archway Hosting provides full featured web hosting for a fraction of the cost of traditional shared hosting. You get all the benefits of shared hosting, without the sticker shock or extra fees. Check them out at archwayhosting.com. You can find us online at www.atheistnomads.com, follow us on Twitter @AtheistNomads, like us on Facebook, email us at contact@atheistnomads.com, and leave us a voice mail message at (541) 203-0666. Theme music is provided by Sturdy Fred.

Amorphophallus titanum öffnete sich zum Maifeiertag.