Season 6, Episode 7 - Growing plants without light

Promise

The highlight of this episode is a breakthrough out of UC Riverside, where researchers have managed to grow plants in total darkness. Obviously, there could be implications to this advancement, as there always are. We try and pull apart these unknown unknowns.

We also talk about extracting water out of even the driest of air, learned about mosquito’s preferred tastes, surmised about the intelligence of fungi, and got excited about learning to echo-locate.

Please enjoy our discussion in this episode.

Sean’s links:

* Fungal intelligence

* Stripe acquiring Bridge, a stablecoin company (paywall)

* Anyone can learn to echo-locate

* Cheap tools to digitally sniff out food quality

* Growing plants in darkness

Ben’s links:

* Are you tasty to mosquitoes?

* Sponges to extract gold from e-waste

* Pulling water out of thin air

* Liquid that mimics whale sonar

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