Here is a selection of some of the most interesting natural history and natural history book themed podcasts from the past week. Topics include ancient monsters, orchids, and fire in the life cycles of plants.
One of the many benefits of cannabis being made legal for recreational use in twenty-four U.S. states and the District of Columbia is that for the first time since it was made illegal nationally in the country under the Marihuana Tax Act of 1937 it can now be discussed with both reason and rationality amongst serious-minded people.
I’ve only recently begun listening to the Royal Horticultural Society’s “Gardening with the RHS” podcast but in that short time I’ve become quite fond of it.
Continuing with the theme of enormous new books this week here in The Well-read Naturalist, the recently published “Aquatic Plants of Northern and Central Europe including Britain and Ireland” from Princeton University Press in their WILDGuides series is a tome that would indeed cause Neville Longbottom himself to sit up and take notice.