HeyJared4Ps
4Ps: Plants, Pests, Parasites & People is a story-driven science podcast hosted by Dr. Kate Martin that uses four rotating lenses—plants, the things that eat them, the diseases that follow, and the people caught in the middle—to answer one big question: how did we get to…
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Season 1, Episode 19: Invisible Until They Aren’t: Ebola and Hantavirus (opens the original)
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Ebola and hantavirus scare us in different ways. Ebola is the famous fear: dramatic disease, high-containment laboratories, protective suits, outbreak response, and decades of cultural imagination shaped by books, television, movies, and headlines. Hantaviruses are quieter: rodent-associated viruses that can live near cabins, sheds, barns, and ordinary human spaces until exposure turns ordinary dust into something dangerous. In this episode of 4Ps: Plants, Pests, Parasites and People, Dr. Kate M
Season 1, Episode 18: What a tumbleweed, western weeds! (opens the original)
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The American West is full of iconic images: ghost towns, gunslinger shows, dusty roads, wide-open skies, sagebrush, and tumbleweeds rolling across the scene like they have somewhere important to be. But the plants of the West are not just movie props. In this episode of 4Ps: Plants, Pests, Parasites and People, Dr. Kate Martin looks at kochia, Russian thistle, puncturevine, sagebrush, and cheatgrass; plants that help tell a larger story about drought, disturbance, wind, movement, chemistry, fire
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