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60 minutes
Released:
Aug 15, 2014
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Podcast episode
Description
This week we're learning about botany and the colorful science of gardening. Author Ruth Kassinger joins us to discuss her book "A Garden of Marvels: How We Discovered that Flowers Have Sex, Leaves Eat Air, and Other Secrets of the Way Plants Work." And we'll speak to NASA researcher Gioia Massa about her work to solve the technical challenges of gardening in space.
Released:
Aug 15, 2014
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (57)
#593 Indigenous Knowledge and Decolonising Academia: We often think the practices of science and academics as a western-European invention, and while both science and the academy have created a lot of positive knowledge, it's important to take a step back and recognize the blind spots of science that com... by Science for the People