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Season1_Episode 20: Scientists Behaving Badly!
October 12, 2026 · 51 minScience 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…
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Season 1, Episode 19: Invisible Until They Aren’t: Ebola and Hantavirus
September 6, 2026 · 39 minEbola 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…
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Season 1, Episode 18: What a tumbleweed, western weeds!
July 29, 2026 · 32 minThe 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…
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Season 1, Episode 17: Weeds, Pt1
June 17, 2026 · 34 minWeeds 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…
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Season 1, Episode 16: Top Ten Invasive Insects!
June 1, 2026 · 48 minIn 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…
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Season 1, Episode 15: The Vacation Discovery that Changes the World.
May 14, 2026 · 46 minFor 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…
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Season 1, Episode 14: Tropical Plants in Florida, Who Knew?
April 19, 2026 · 41 minSouth 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…
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Season 1, Episode 13:Cockroaches, A closer look at the insects we love to hate
April 7, 2026 · 38 minIn 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…
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Season 1, Episode 12: CaMV, the most famous virus you've never heard of.
March 31, 2026 · 37 minIn 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…
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Season 1, Episode 11: Germ Theory, Microbes cause disease! Simple, Right?
March 17, 2026 · 39 minWhat 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…
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Season 1, Episode 10: Forensic Botany, Can Plants help Solve Crime?
March 10, 2026 · 24 minIn this episode of 4Ps, Dr. Kate Martin dives into forensic botany, the real science of how plants can quietly place us in environments we didn’t realize we were carrying with us. From pollen “profiles” that hint at season and habitat, to…
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Season 1, Episode 9: Black Widow: Femme Fatale or Shy Introvert?
March 3, 2026 · 29 minThe black widow isn’t a cartoon villain—and she’s not coming for you. She’s an introverted, venomous roommate with incredible silk tech and a wildly misunderstood love life. Dr. Kate Martin separates myth from reality: where widows live…
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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 where we are? From plant domestication and medicinal plants to bed bugs, wheat stem rust, Mormon cricket swarms, and even alchemy in the age of plague, each episode connects biology to our agricultural and urban history—with clear science, sharp storytelling, and the occasional “wait… that explains a lot.”