Latest Rainforest Podcast Episodes
Plants of the Gods: S5E10. The Mushroom Moment
Plants of the Gods: Hallucinogens, Healing, Culture and Conservation podcast - February 21, 2024 06:12 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 60 ratingsIn this season finale of Plants of the Gods, join host Dr. Mark Plotkin as we learn about everything mushrooms, which are truly having a moment! Drawing from an article he published in HerbalGram, Dr. Plotkin provides an overview of how our daily lives are transformed by fungi, in the past, pres...
Plants of the Gods: S5E9. The Ethnobotany of Amazonian Lianas: A Conversation with ethnobotanist Bruce Hoffman
Plants of the Gods: Hallucinogens, Healing, Culture and Conservation podcast - February 07, 2024 06:15 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 60 ratingsIn this episode of Plants of the Gods, join host Dr. Mark Plotkin in conversation with colleague Dr. Bruce Hoffman, Senior Manager of Scientific Research at ACT, as we learn about the ethnobotany of Amazonian lianas. Dr. Hoffman is a conservation biologist focusing on flora of the Guianas, with ...
Plants of the Gods: S5E8. Part 2 — Mescal, Tequila and Magic Toads: A Conversation with ethnobotanist Gary Nabhan
Plants of the Gods: Hallucinogens, Healing, Culture and Conservation podcast - January 24, 2024 06:06 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 60 ratingsIn this episode of Plants of the Gods, join ethnobotanists Dr. Mark Plotkin and Dr. Gary Nabhan in conversation as we learn about the power of the desert and its plants and animals, from mescal to tequila to magic toads. Dr. Nabhan is a McArthur Genius award-winning ethnobotanist and desert cons...
Plants of the Gods: S5E7. Part 1 — Mescal, Tequila and Magic Toads: A Conversation with ethnobotanist Gary Nabhan
Plants of the Gods: Hallucinogens, Healing, Culture and Conservation podcast - January 10, 2024 09:03 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 60 ratingsIn this episode of Plants of the Gods, join ethnobotanists Dr. Mark Plotkin and Dr. Gary Nabhan in conversation as we learn about the power of the desert and its plants and animals, from mescal to tequila to magic toads. Dr. Nabhan is a McArthur Genius award-winning ethnobotanist and desert cons...
Plants of the Gods: S5E6. Plants of the Gods in Ancient Persia: A Conversation with Dr. Shauheen Etminan
Plants of the Gods: Hallucinogens, Healing, Culture and Conservation podcast - December 27, 2023 09:23 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 60 ratingsShauheen Etminan, PhD, is the co-founder of VCENNA, a CNS drug discovery biotech company inspired by the ethnobotany and wisdom of ancestral medicinal practices for mental wellness treatment. Born and raised in Iran, Shauheen’s heritage and background in chemical engineering fueled his interest ...
Plants of the Gods: S5E5. Part 2 — Coffee, the World’s Favorite Stimulant — Chemistry, History, and More
Plants of the Gods: Hallucinogens, Healing, Culture and Conservation podcast - December 13, 2023 09:35 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 60 ratingsCoffee is the most widely consumed mind-altering plant product in the world. The human species arose in or near the Rift Valley in East Africa, the northern edge of which abuts the forests of Ethiopia in which the coffee plants originated. The drunk monkey hypothesis proposes that human consciou...
Plants of the Gods: S5E4. Part 1 — Coffee, the World’s Favorite Stimulant — Chemistry, History, and More
Plants of the Gods: Hallucinogens, Healing, Culture and Conservation podcast - November 29, 2023 09:45 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 60 ratingsCoffee is the most widely consumed mind-altering plant product in the world. The human species arose in or near the Rift Valley in East Africa, the northern edge of which abuts the forests of Ethiopia in which the coffee plants originated. The drunk monkey hypothesis proposes that human consciou...
Plants of the Gods: S5E3. How to Save the Rainforest with Mongabay’s Rhett Butler
Plants of the Gods: Hallucinogens, Healing, Culture and Conservation podcast - November 15, 2023 09:53 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 60 ratingsIn this episode of Plants of the Gods, we hear from Rhett Butler, editor-in-chief and CEO of Mongabay. Mongabay is a nonprofit environmental science and conservation news platform that produces original reporting by leveraging over 800 correspondents in 70 different countries. With a main focus ...
Plants of the Gods: S5E2. Part 2 — Antibiotic Ales and Lush Lagers: The Ethnobotany of Beer
Plants of the Gods: Hallucinogens, Healing, Culture and Conservation podcast - November 01, 2023 08:12 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 60 ratingsWelcome to part two of The Ethnobotany of Beer! This week, we continue to explore the question on everyone's mind these days: did civilization invent beer, or did beer invent civilization? And then we help solve a cold case: did ancient Africans know and use antibiotics? And why are we asking th...
#024: The Surfing Scientist - Dr. Ty Roach
Biosphere 2 Podcast - October 28, 2023 17:28 - 2 hoursIn this episode, we are joined by Dr. Ty Roach. Ty is a molecular biologist, freelance scientist, and a decorated competitive surfer and wrestler. Ty is a former Postdoctoral Researcher at Biosphere 2, where he split time between the Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology and living on site at Biosp...
Plants of the Gods: S5E1. Part 1 — Antibiotic Ales and Lush Lagers: The Ethnobotany of Beer
Plants of the Gods: Hallucinogens, Healing, Culture and Conservation podcast - October 18, 2023 08:12 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 60 ratingsThis two-part special edition kicks off Season Five of "Plants of the Gods: Hallucinogens, Healing, Culture and Conservation." We start by asking the question that is on everyone's mind these days: did civilization invent beer, or did beer invent civilization? And then we help solve a cold case:...
#023: The Biosphere 2 Lung - Bill Dempster
Biosphere 2 Podcast - September 18, 2023 07:30 - 1 hourToday we are joined by Bill Dempster. From 1985 to 1994, Bill Dempster served as the Director of Systems Engineering and chief engineer for Space Biospheres Ventures, the company responsible for designing and building Biosphere 2. As Systems Engineer, Bill was responsible for managing the integr...
#022: Space Analog for the Moon and Mars - Kai Staats
Biosphere 2 Podcast - August 15, 2023 16:05 - 1 hourIn this episode we are joined by Kai Staats. Kai is a veteran developer, designer, filmmaker, and scientist. Kai is the Director of SAM, Space Analog for the Moon and Mars, here at Biosphere 2. SAM is a hi-fidelity, hermetically sealed Mars habitat analog with greenhouse, living quarters, airloc...
Plants of the Gods: S4E10. Cannabis: Seeing Through the Smoke
Plants of the Gods: Hallucinogens, Healing, Culture and Conservation podcast - June 14, 2023 08:45 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 60 ratingsSeason 4 of Plants of the Gods wraps up today with an episode featuring Peter Grinspoon, MD, cannabis specialist at Harvard Medical School. During this conversation, Dr. Plotkin and Dr. Grinspoon discuss everything from the pain-relieving and uplifting qualities of cannabis sought by people with...
Plants of the Gods: S4E9. Part 2 — Mushroom Magic with Giuliana Furci
Plants of the Gods: Hallucinogens, Healing, Culture and Conservation podcast - May 31, 2023 08:45 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 60 ratingsToday's episode features world-renowned mycologist Giuliana Furci. Giuliana is the founder of the Fungi Foundation, the first NGO in the world solely dedicated to Fungi. This two-part discussion between Giuliana and Dr. Plotkin covers everything from her experiences in the field of mycology, inf...
Plants of the Gods: S4E8. Part 1 — Mushroom Magic with Giuliana Furci
Plants of the Gods: Hallucinogens, Healing, Culture and Conservation podcast - May 17, 2023 08:45 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 60 ratingsToday's episode features world-renowned mycologist Giuliana Furci. Giuliana is the founder of the Fungi Foundation, the first NGO in the world solely dedicated to Fungi. This two-part discussion between Giuliana and Dr. Plotkin covers everything from her experiences in the field of mycology, inf...
Plants of the Gods: S4E7. Part 2 — Ayahuasca and Tobacco Shamanism: an Interview with Ethnobotanist Dr. Glenn Shepard
Plants of the Gods: Hallucinogens, Healing, Culture and Conservation podcast - May 03, 2023 08:55 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 60 ratingsToday's episode features ethnobotanist and anthropologist, Dr. Glenn Shepard. This two-part discussion between Dr. Shepard and Dr. Plotkin covers an array of fascinating topics, including the role language plays in ethnobotany, shamanism in a changing world, and personal encounters and experienc...
Plants of the Gods: S4E6. Part 1 — Ayahuasca and Tobacco Shamanism: an Interview with Ethnobotanist Dr. Glenn Shepard
Plants of the Gods: Hallucinogens, Healing, Culture and Conservation podcast - April 19, 2023 07:00 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 60 ratingsToday's episode features ethnobotanist and anthropologist, Dr. Glenn Shepard. This two-part discussion between Dr. Shepard and Dr. Plotkin covers an array of fascinating topics including the role language plays in ethnobotany, shamanism in a changing world, and personal encounters and experience...
Plants of the Gods: S4E5. Part 2 — Tobacco: The Sacred Shamanic Plant of Freedom and Enslavement
Plants of the Gods: Hallucinogens, Healing, Culture and Conservation podcast - April 05, 2023 08:45 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 60 ratingsIn today’s episode, we continue learning about tobacco, one of the most widely used mind altering substances. During this two-part discussion, Dr. Plotkin addresses the duality of this well-known plant of the gods. Between its spiritual significance and its ties to addiction, disease and enslave...
Plants of the Gods: S4E4. Part 1 — Tobacco: The Sacred Shamanic Plant of Freedom and Enslavement
Plants of the Gods: Hallucinogens, Healing, Culture and Conservation podcast - March 22, 2023 08:55 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 60 ratingsIn today’s episode, we embark on a journey learning about one of the most widely used mind-altering substances: tobacco. During this two-part discussion, Dr. Plotkin addresses the duality of this well-known Plant of the Gods. Between its spiritual significance and its ties to addiction, disease ...
Plants of the Gods: S4E3. Part 2 — Brian C. Muraresku: The Eleusinian Mysteries, Discovering the Divine, The Immortality Key, The Pagan Continuity Hypothesis and the Hallucinogenic Origins of Religion
Plants of the Gods: Hallucinogens, Healing, Culture and Conservation podcast - March 08, 2023 10:15 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 60 ratingsIn today's episode, we continue our discussion with Brian Muraresku, author of the New York Times bestselling book, The Immortality Key, and Dr. Mark Plotkin, the President of the Amazon Conservation Team. This two-part discussion between Muraresku and Plotkin examines the role psychedelics have...
WorldPOP Festival - Joe Olson
Let's Talk Conservation - March 03, 2023 09:00 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingToday’s episode I talk to Joe Olson who has an incredible brain child for an environmental initiative called the WorldPOP Festival. This festival is to get people around the world to commit to making changes - large and small - that'll have an impact on helping their own environments, leading to...
Plants of the Gods: S4E2. Part 1 — Brian C. Muraresku: The Eleusinian Mysteries, Discovering the Divine, The Immortality Key, The Pagan Continuity Hypothesis and the Hallucinogenic Origins of Religion
Plants of the Gods: Hallucinogens, Healing, Culture and Conservation podcast - February 22, 2023 09:05 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 60 ratingsToday's episode features Brian Muraresku, author of the New York Times bestselling book, The Immortality Key. This two-part discussion between Muraresku and Dr. Plotkin examines the role psychedelics have played in the development of Western civilization. In the first half, we'll cover topics ra...
Plants of the Gods: S4E1. Richard Evans Schultes and the Search for Ayahuasca
Plants of the Gods: Hallucinogens, Healing, Culture and Conservation podcast - February 08, 2023 07:45 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 60 ratingsIn today’s episode, we launch Season 4 of Plants of the Gods by delving more deeply into our most popular topic to date: ayahuasca. Also known as “the vine of the soul”, ayahuasca is native to the northwest Amazon and is employed by indigenous shamans for therapeutic and other purposes. This sac...
Plants of the Gods: S3E10. Part 2 — 21st Century Healing Magic with both Fungi and Herbs: A Conversation with the Remarkable Dr. Christopher Hobbs
Plants of the Gods: Hallucinogens, Healing, Culture and Conservation podcast - September 14, 2022 07:30 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 60 ratingsDr. Christopher Hobbs is a world-renowned author, clinician, botanist, mycologist, and research scientist, with over 35 years of experience with herbal medicine. He is the author of the classic, "Medicinal Mushrooms: The Essential Guide." In this second half of a two-part episode, Dr. Hobbs and ...
Plants of the Gods: S3E9. 21st Century Healing Magic with both Fungi and Herbs: A Conversation with the Remarkable Dr. Christopher Hobbs
Plants of the Gods: Hallucinogens, Healing, Culture and Conservation podcast - August 31, 2022 07:35 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 60 ratingsDr. Christopher Hobbs is a world-renowned author, clinician, botanist, mycologist, and research scientist, with over 35 years of experience with herbal medicine. He is the author of the classic, "Medicinal Mushrooms: The Essential Guide." In this first half of a two-part episode, Dr. Hobbs and D...
Plants of the Gods: S3E8. Part 2 — Magic Frogs, Iboga and the Magic of Hallucinogens: a Conversation with Hamilton Morris
Plants of the Gods: Hallucinogens, Healing, Culture and Conservation podcast - August 17, 2022 09:11 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 60 ratingsHamilton Morris is an American journalist, filmmaker and scientific researcher. Previously a writer for Vice magazine with a monthly column “Hamilton’s Pharmacopeia”, Morris currently conducts pharmacological research at St. Joseph’s University in Philadelphia. Interested in psychoactive substan...
Plants of the Gods: S3E7. Magic Frogs, Iboga and the Magic of Hallucinogens: a Conversation with Hamilton Morris
Plants of the Gods: Hallucinogens, Healing, Culture and Conservation podcast - August 03, 2022 06:05 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 60 ratingsHamilton Morris is an American journalist, filmmaker and scientific researcher. Previously a writer for Vice magazine with a monthly column “Hamilton’s Pharmacopeia”, Morris currently conducts pharmacological research at St. Joseph’s University in Philadelphia. Interested in psychoactive substan...
Plants of the Gods: S3E6. Part 2 — Mushrooms, Magic, Medicine and Mortality: Paul Stamets in Conversation with Dr. Mark Plotkin
Plants of the Gods: Hallucinogens, Healing, Culture and Conservation podcast - July 20, 2022 07:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 60 ratingsPaul Stamets is a leading American mycologist, author of many books and best known for his role in the award-winning documentary and accompanying book "Fantastic Fungi". An advocate of medicinal fungi, Stamets' interests overlap with those of ethnobotanist Dr. Mark Plotkin. In this episode, Stam...
Plants of the Gods: S3E5. Mushrooms, Magic, Medicine and Mortality: Paul Stamets in Conversation with Dr. Mark Plotkin
Plants of the Gods: Hallucinogens, Healing, Culture and Conservation podcast - July 06, 2022 07:35 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 60 ratingsPaul Stamets is a leading American mycologist, author of many books, and best known for his role in the award-winning documentary and accompanying book, Fantastic Fungi. An advocate of medicinal fungi, Stamets' interests overlap with those of ethnobotanist Dr. Mark Plotkin. In this episode, Stam...
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