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The knowledge of our couch of finely-honed scientific minds didn’t pop out of the ground fully-formed – it had to be planted, tended, and grown lovingly over a long period of time to flower into the beautiful curiosity tree it is today. But like so much of life, it started as just a tiny, humble seed – which is super convenient for the topic of this episode!
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[Definition]
https://www.nybg.org/planttalk/what-is-a-seed/
https://kids.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frym.2020.00027
https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/biochemistry-genetics-and-molecular-biology/female-gametophyte
https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/biochemistry-genetics-and-molecular-biology/male-gametophyte
[This or That: Seed Numbers]
25: seed weight or germination time
2000: preserved species or oldest germinated seed
385 million: individual Amazonian trees or oldest seed-producing fossilized plant
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1155/2012/687832
https://www.nps.gov/parkhistory/online_books/science/12/chap5.htm
https://www.seedvault.no/about/the-seeds/
https://www.science.org/doi/abs/10.1126/science.1153600
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/708279
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3309767/
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.1102491
https://web.archive.org/web/20130608110356/http://sura.ots.ac.cr/local/florula3/docs/Hura.pdf
https://www.britannica.com/story/can-apple-seeds-kill-you
[Trivia Question]
2024 record for smallest creature to disperse ingested seeds
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1042977
https://nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ppp3.10519
https://bantam.earth/common-rough-woodlouse-porcellio-scaber/
[Fact Off]
HybriBots are a cyborg way to plant seeds, made from wild oats and human-made capsules
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/adma.202313906 https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34506974/
Video of wild oat fruits: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NlUparIDfzE
Human urine does not protect acorns against predation by the wood mouse
[Ask the Science Couch]
Heirloom seeds and non-recently-hybridized plant cultivars (vs. hybrids vs. genetic modifications)
https://hort.extension.wisc.edu/articles/heirloom-vegetables/
https://extension.illinois.edu/sites/default/files/dkk-mg-seed-swap-hybrid-heirloom.pdf
https://ag.umass.edu/home-lawn-garden/fact-sheets/heirloom-vegetable-varieties
https://extension.illinois.edu/node/21430
https://hles.unl.edu/translating-language-seed-packets-hybrid-heirloom-non-gmo-and-more
https://www.fda.gov/food/agricultural-biotechnology/gmo-crops-animal-food-and-beyond
Patreon bonus: How seeds germinate and seeds that grow better after being digested
https://www.mdpi.com/2311-7524/9/4/462
https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1365-2435.2005.00973.x
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1433831904700104
https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/eap.1667
[Butt One More Thing]
Mysterious tomato plant on the volcanic island Surtsey came from a seed in human poop
https://www.icelandreview.com/news/dirty-secret-uncovered-doing-business-surtsey/
https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1267/
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many nsfw quotes in this episode
Dr Hank Zeuss and his new series of science communicating children’s books. I like that idea, a lot
Dope Poem! 🎉🎉🎉🔥🔥🔥
39:26 and you even have a yt channel ready! @SciShowPee
29:10 Sew your wild oats on Saturday night and on Sunday pray for a crop failure,!
Heirloom seeds are seeds from the days before we bred all the flavour out of fruit and vegetables and all the good perfumes out of flowers.
And yes I am a grumpy old man in training.
I have been a retail manager for 25 years, and would be honored to help you in that arena. Would be my dream to work for Complexly. (Only job listing is for a Latin American Expert)
Where's the link for the muppet podcast?
Why would you be embarrassed of the muppets? I was all excited about a muppet podcast but it doesn’t seem like Sam actually likes them, so I’ll pass.
Here’s my weekly comment to tell you and scishow team about how ALL Keokuk geodes are fossils . Also a new study found 15 minerals in ONE GEODE. I hope one of you reads the comments this week. I also finally found copies of the book Keokuk fossils and the species biopella. Which is like from the 1800s and they made the discovery and knew they were all fossils. But they didn’t know what the fossils were so they kept calling them sponges but if you literally just read the descriptions, they’re just describing horn coral and crinoids and braciopods. Like literally these are the geodes from the geode capital of the world. Definitely the geode capital of the United States and every single one is a fossil and people are just smashing them open having no idea and I swear to God I know from living there it’s some weird gatekeeping thing, maybe because of fossil regulations but for real like can someone please talk to me about this or someone in the comments who cares? Rant over see you next week!
I seem to remember that when Adam Savage talked to the muppet people their was talk about different versions of the muppet babies that only occured as part of some other show (like it was a short segment in that show).
What is Hank saying right before “not the tree” at 16:29? I’ve replayed and rewatched and tried with and without captions and I cannot figure it out
Hahaha, “Hey Ceri, what is a seed?” set off Siri
Nah that divorced lady bit is by far the funniest thing that’s ever happened on tangents
If Sam is resident every-clone, surely he is comparable by definition
Hosting a Muppet podcast = coolest thing ever!!! ❤️
I wouldn’t think the way the seeds are spread with the I-bots will not be easy to harvest because they will not be in a row like common mechanical seeding. Not as useful as one would think unless humans harvest.
There are cat boxes that have trays, which normally collect urine on a paper absorber but take that out and it will just collect in the tray under the cat without the absorbing material.
I think scishow pee just got another episode
Really hope the next episode is entirely “what’s the pee for you!”😂
Nice try diddy
Hank, you can train your cat to use the toilet. 🤷🏻♀️
Just had to say, the walnut shell is not the fruit. The fruit is the fleshy part that rots away, and stinks. Same goes for hackberries. Their thin rind is the fruit (tastes like honey orange), covering the seed, which is comprised of the protective layer, surrounding the nascent plant inside. Only trees related variously like these, and oaks, have this kind of set-up. The "fleshy" part of the acorn is the cap, which dries off and falls away, leaving the protective shell, surrounding the tender inside. Oh, btw, one can eat the hackberry and sugarberry rinds, as well as acorn insides, if prepared properly. Anyway, just off on a tangent.
32:44 If people can get away with calling reanimated spider corpses robots, the seed delivery bundle is fine.
I'm not a roboticist, but I do work adjacent to roboticists. Opinion is my own.
40:34 call it Whose Pee Makes It Flee
@36:35 Serious question: Is calling it 'piss' human specific? I feel like it's too casual to use when talking about non-humans. Though I would say that animals can be 'pissed off'
Hey guys new cat name just dropped! You already have Manhole. Now meet Cupule!
I love y'all but that roboseed on the thumbnail looks exactly like a s*x toy 👀
OSHA says the sexy nut is indeed a two person lift
Sam starting the ad with a leading question but not warning the others you wanted them to respond with Hank's merch was hilarious.
I grew up next to someone who grew heirloom roses. The smell was amazing, but none of the stems were ever straight enough to cut as "long stem" roses.
no reason to be embarrassed, the muppets are great. and i believe that if you show passion people will react to your love of a thing.
cool