B is for Botany: The Corpse Flower & Hemlock
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In this episode Casey and Karen get down and dirty with plants. Karen covers the old (The Magna Carta Yew) and the stinky (The Corpse Flower). Casey goes dark and tackles the plant that killed Socrates, hemlock.
Artwork: Jovana Stekovic
Logo: nydaaa
Music: Home Base Groove by Kevin MacLeod
Karen's Sources:
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/legend-says-ankerwycke-yew-witnessed-signing-magna-carta-180954373/
https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/runnymede/features/ankerwycke
https://www.treehugger.com/year-old-tree-witnessed-magna-carta-signing-4866961
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ankerwycke_Yew
https://www-jstor-org.ezproxy.proxy.library.oregonstate.edu/stable/pdf/41515102.pdf?ab_segments=0%2Fbasic_SYC-5187_SYC-5188%2F5187&refreqid=search%3A331f8f14fd1b0b4de5054c132479d822
https://www.edenproject.com/learn/for-everyone/plant-profiles/titan-arum
https://www.britannica.com/plant/Titan-arum
Casey's Sources:
https://www.healthline.com/health/hemlock-poisoning
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Socrates
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trial_of_Socrates
https://www.biography.com/scholar/socrates
Home Base Groove by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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