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Inglese
Stati Uniti
20 episodi
da 06 Gennaio 2026
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Science is built on evidence, skepticism, and trust—but scientists are still people, and people sometimes make spectacularly bad decisions. In this episode of 4Ps: Plants, Pests, Parasites & People, we look at scientists behaving badly: questionable experiments, manipulated figures, research mi…

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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 viruse…
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, Parasite…
Weeds are usually the plants we pull, mow, spray, curse, or ignore — but what if we looked closer? In this episode of 4Ps: Plants, Pests, Parasites and People, Dr. Kate Martin explores what actually makes a plant a weed, why weeds matter in agriculture, and how they can act as reservoirs for insect…
In this episode of 4Ps: Plants, Pests, Parasites and People, Dr. Kate Martin returns to the “Pest” part of the cycle with a Most Wanted list of ten invasive insects currently shaping forests, farms, backyards, and regulatory programs in the United States. The episode defines what “invasive” actuall…
For this episode of 4Ps: Plants, Pests, Parasites and People, Dr. Kate Martin follows the strange, moldy, world-changing story of penicillin: from accidental observation to lifesaving medicine, and from one famous petri dish to a much larger cast of scientists, patients, and microbes. Along the way…
South Florida’s tropical fruits are not just a glamorous little collection of produce that happens to like warm weather. They are really a lesson in how growing something and growing it well are not at all the same thing. Avocado, mango, lychee, longan, mamey, banana, passionfruit, and dragonfruit …
In this episode of 4Ps, Dr. Kate Martin takes a closer look at cockroaches, the insects people think they already understand. From their strange biology and surprising diversity to the major pest species found around human spaces, this episode explores what cockroaches actually are, how they succee…
In this episode of 4Ps: Plants, Pests, Parasites and People, Dr. Kate Martin explores Cauliflower mosaic virus (CaMV)—a plant virus most people have never heard of, but one that quietly shaped modern plant science. From haunted-looking brassica leaves and aphid transmission to the famous CaMV 35S p…
What changed medicine forever wasn’t a new drug or a sharper scalpel, it was learning to believe in an enemy we couldn’t see. In this episode of 4Ps: Plants, Pests, Parasites & People, Dr. Kate Martin tells the messy, human story behind germ theory: from “bad air” and public panic to cholera ma…
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