71: 🎂 Good Invasive Species, Rock Climbing, and Ig Interviews

For our birthday this year, we've each gifted a topic for one another! For Caroline, an environmental hot take: can invasive species ever be... good? For Tom, an entire topic about one of his favorite hobbies: rock climbing! And for Ella, interviews from the Ig Nobel Laureates this year.

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Timestamps: (00:00:00) Intro (00:09:04) Good Invasive Species (00:46:31) Rock Climbing (01:18:05) Ig Nobel Interviews (02:01:14) Outro

We also learn about: In podcast years we’re 60, Ella’s party hat, what’s your favorite color and least favorite invasive species, it’s my birthday also, the zebra mussel, Humanity: “Hubris et Brevi Perspicacia”, canetoads that can’t even reach the beatles, maybe Ella is biased being part of the largest invasive species: the brits, not all non-native species are invasive, the neutral long island wall lizards, should I stan or cancel the grass? you can’t get rid of the nonnative birds in hawaii without killing the native plants, knowing beneficial non-native species helps us triage the real problems, Caroline’s thesis was on this??? a traditional LLE answer: It’s Complicated, Tom simply screams, duck roll, GTA IV Trailer, songs when he was born, but how does this involve scientology? what makes us human, Live from the Ig Nobels, “Don’t Die”, sometimes you need to remember to breathe, “I mostly just watch clips on Lateral”, Blue Zones, Dr Saul Newman’s Poem, Skinner’s pigeon guided missiles somehow missed Ella, minority report for pigeons, “I’m from New York Most of the Times”, vortex energy capture, The Water Swims the Fish took years, a long winded way to say just keep swimming, the silly in the science, Tom rips up Caroline’s gift.

Sources: Canal & River Trust: Zebra Mussles National Museum Australia Cane Toads in Australia Wikipedia: Beavers in Patagonia Scientific American: Hawaiian Birds The Conversation: Some ‘invasive species’ can help native ecosystems thrive. The Hawaii VINE project Hofstra University: Italian Wall Lizards Trends in Ecology and Evolution: Valuing the contributions of non-native species to people and nature Brown University Press Release Brown Daily Herald: Rebuttal --- Rock Climbing sources coming soon! --- Ig Nobel Ceremony 2024 Max Planck Institue on Blue Zones UCL on Saul Newman's Work Pre-print of Saul Newman's Paper Smithsonian Mag on the Pigeon Project NIH on Operant Conditioning APA Eminent Psychologists of the 20th Century Survey Julie Vargas Queens University Belfast Interview Jimmy Liao's Dead Trout Paper