Buzzed Biology: Recent Episodes
Stevie Foxette
Buzzed Biology is a podcast where a lapsed biologist & current bartender tells you and her guest about all about different biology facts over a drink (or two.)
Join Stevie Foxette and Becca Audrey as they discuss mountain lions, what the word “nimrod” actually means, our fake Game of Thrones house, our plans for Pleistocene Park, coexisting with nature, and how “fallow deer” sound like they hold dire prophecy.
Cosmopolitan recipe, shoutouts and sources can be found here.
Join Stevie Foxette and her friend Andrew as they discuss mixed culture fermentation, the brewing process, the true origin of the name of Indian Pale Ales, and Jeffery Dahmer (again). Beers from Institution Ale Co., Russian River Brewing Company, and Jester King Brewing.
Shoutout and Sources can be found here: https://stevieroxelle.wixsite.com/buzzedbiology/home/episode-11-with-andrew-mixed-culture-fermentation
Join Stevie Foxette and Tyler Beltran as they chat locusts, serotonin, campfire cooking, bear training, mosquitos, and the reasoning behind kosher. Visit our ko-fi page to donate! ko-fi.com/steviefoxette
Shoutouts:
- Enegren Nighthawk: http://www.enegrenbrewing.com/
- Christopher Ryan (who’s appearance on JRE inspired this episode): https://chrisryanphd.com/vanthropology/
- Weta: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weta
- Anti-Locust Research Centre: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Locust_Research_Centre
- 2019 Las Vegas grasshopper swarm: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/27/us/grasshoppers-vegas.html
Sources:
https://stevieroxelle.wixsite.com/buzzedbiology/home/episode-11-with-tyler-beltran-locusts
Join Stevie Foxette, Richard Doom from @holdnoheroes, and Jake Kilroy from @jakeisavegan this week as we discuss giraffes, Jake’s excessive amount of blood, shrieking about correcting people about Frankenstein’s monster, trying to figure out African geography from memory, and compare various animal smells.
Shoutouts:
- Green Cheek’s West Coast IPA is Dead: http://www.greencheekbeer.com/
- Potterless: https://www.potterlesspodcast.com/
Sources:
https://stevieroxelle.wixsite.com/buzzedbiology/home/episode-10-with-richard-doom-and-jake-kilroy-giraffes
Join Stevie Foxette and Becca Audrey as they discuss leopards, fashionable safari jackets, how time is hard to comprehend, whether they’d rather fight a chimpanzee or a baboon, and as always, lots of mountain lion references.
We now have a ko-fi page for donations! https://ko-fi.com/steviefoxette
Today's cocktail: Stevie’s “Strawberry Leopard”
- 2 oz gin or vodka (I used Ventura Spirits Haymaker, but I recommend gin)
- 2 oz St. Germain
- 1 oz creme de cassis
- 1 oz lime juice
- Club soda
Add all ingredients but the club soda to a shaker. Wet shake, then strain into a highball glass over ice, top with club soda, garnish with a lime wedge. Makes two cocktails.
Shoutouts:
- Institution Ale Co. Freight Train Coming: https://www.institutionales.com/freight-train-coming
- The Magical Liopleurodon Way: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vLRH9pAVXU
- Man-Eating Leopards: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leopard_attack#Notable_man-eaters
- The English Bus (Stonehenge tour): https://theenglishbus.com/
- Raven at C.A.R.E. Rescue Texas: https://www.carerescuetexas.com/meet-the-animals/leopards/raven.html
- Thug Notes: https://www.wisecrack.co/thug-notes
Sources:
https://stevieroxelle.wixsite.com/buzzedbiology/home/episode-9-with-becca-audrey-leopards
This week Stevie Foxette is joined by Richard Doom, host of Hold No Heroes (@holdnoheroes). Join them as they discuss bats, vampire hockey players, and the Vines that still haunt them.
Shoutouts:
- Institution’s Restraint Maple Brown Ale, 2019 Fall Seasonal Red IPA, and Ratched Rye Porter. http://www.institutionales.com/
- Sequoia & Kings Canyon National Parks: https://www.nps.gov/seki/index.htm
- Brock Berrigan: http://www.brockberrigan.com/
- Ben Lovejoy & Evgeni Malkin (warning: some medical gore): https://youtu.be/R7FwPwwDFuY?t=99
- Coffee Talk: https://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/coffee-talk/3506020
- Wursthaus: https://www.wirtshausla.com/
- Jake Kilroy’s “Gulls”: https://medium.com/@jakekilroy/gulls-503e41beb147
- Internet Shaquille’s I’m like a bird vine: https://vine.co/v/eamLqjYLnYt
- Jamie1974 Falcon’s vine: https://vine.co/v/OMuK010W1ii
- Kinkshaming is my kink vine: https://vine.co/v/OMuK010W1ii
- What to do if you find a bat, via Bat World Sanctuary. (https://batworld.org/what-to-do-if-you-found_a_bat/)
Sources:
https://stevieroxelle.wixsite.com/buzzedbiology/home/episode-8-with-richard-doom-bats
Join Stevie Foxette and Becca Audrey (@aiel_runner) as they discuss jaguars, annoying trivia groups, how to pronounce things, and the coyote mob.
Shoutouts:
- Institution Ale Co.’s White Walls: http://www.institutionales.com/white-walls
- Stone Brewing’s Delicious: https://www.stonebrewing.com/beer/year-round-releases/stone-delicious-ipa#ageGatePassed
- Ghostfish Brewing Company: https://ghostfishbrewing.com/
- Last Podcast on the Left: https://www.lastpodcastontheleft.com/
- Wild dogs chasing an antelope into a mudpit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gdTOHWYVLM
- La Brea Tarpits: https://tarpits.org/
- Apocalypto: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0472043/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
- Large mountain lion in Washington: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/massive-cougar-captured-by-washington-state-biologists/
- Survivorman & the jaguar: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICV7F5fWnh0
- C.A.R.E. Rescue Texas: https://www.carerescuetexas.com/
- Jonestown Massacre: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonestown
Sources:
https://stevieroxelle.wixsite.com/buzzedbiology/home/episode-7-with-becca-audrey-jaguars
This week I’m joined by Richard Doom (@richarddoomed) host of the podcast Hold No Heroes (@holdnoheroes). We discuss giant pandas, the ethics of conservation, millennials, and how Jake never texts us back.
Shoutouts:
- Dogfish Head Punkin Ale (https://www.dogfish.com/brewery/beer/punkin-ale)
- Coelocanth (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coelacanth)
- North Coast Old Rasputin Russian Imperial Stout (https://northcoastbrewing.com/beers/year-round-beers/old-rasputin-russian-imperial-stout/)
- Domestic fox experiment (http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20160912-a-soviet-scientist-created-the-only-tame-foxes-in-the-world)
- The Panda’s Thumb (https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B004CRSN5Q/ref=cm_sw_em_r_mt_dp_U_PJoQDbDDZTH1X)
Sources:
https://stevieroxelle.wixsite.com/buzzedbiology/home/episode-6-with-richard-doom-giant-panda
This week Stevie Foxette visits Jake Kilroy (@jakekilroy & @jakeisavegan) in Orange County to discuss pinnipeds of southern California, blackout drunk habits, and if Ewoks are cute or not. This episode was inspired by Jake’s docent work at the Pacific Marine Mammal Center (@pacificmmc).
Shoutouts:
- Pacific Marine Mammal Center: https://www.pacificmmc.org/
- Green Cheek Beer Co.: http://www.greencheekbeer.com/
- Vegan Rob’s Probiotic Dragon Puffs: https://veganrobs.com/products/probiotic-dragon-puffs
- Bill Bryson A Short History of Nearly Everything: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B004CFAWES/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1
- Paul Nicklen & the Leopard Seal: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/3/140311-paul-nicklen-leopard-seal-photographer-viral/
- Radiolab: Animal Minds: https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/episodes/91701-animal-minds
Sources:
https://stevieroxelle.wixsite.com/buzzedbiology/home/episode-5-with-jake-kilroy-pinnipeds-of-southern-california
Stevie Foxette explains her recent absence from recording, and when you can hope to hear new episodes. Thanks for the patience, folks!
On this week’s episode, Stevie Foxette discusses Lake Baikal and Baikal seals, the only species of seal that only lives in freshwater.
Inspiring post: https://www.reddit.com/r/Awwducational/comments/cigvh8/baikal_seals_also_known_as_nerpa_are_the_worlds/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app
Hampton, S.E., L.R. Izmest’eva, M.V. Moore, S.L. Katz, B. Dennis, E.A. Silow. (2008). Sixty years of environmental change in the world’s largest freshwater lake - Lake Baikal, Siberia. Global Change Biology, 14: 1947-1958. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2486.2008.01616.x
Miyazaki, N. (2018). Baikal seal: Pusa sibirica. Encyclopedia of Marine Mammals, 3rd ed: 57-58.
Wikipedia contributors. (2019, July 16). Lake Baikal. In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 23:08, July 29, 2019, from https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lake_Baikal&oldid=906561459
Wikipedia contributors. (2019, July 5). Oligocene. In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 23:08, July 29, 2019, from https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Oligocene&oldid=904898732
This week your host Stevie Foxette and Becca Audrey (@aeil_runner) to discuss tigers, Siberian tigers in detail, and the origins of white tigers. There’s also some The Big Lebowski quotes and yelling at lazy birders, and discussion on whether Stevie is actually Jeffery Dahmer.
Chai White Russian recipe from Half Baked Harvest: https://www.halfbakedharvest.com/vanilla-chai-tea-white-russian/
Can, O.E., N. D’Cruze, M. Balaskas, D.W. Macdonald. (2017) Scientific crowdsourcing in wildlife research and conservation: Tigers (Panthera tigris) as a case study. PLoS Biol 15(3): e2001001. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.2001001 Retrieved July 15, 2019 from https://www.theprustenproject.org/think-for-tigers-initiative.html
Chestin, I.E., M.Y. Paltsyn, O.B. Pereladova, L.V. Iegorova, J.P. Gibbs. (2017). Tiger re-establishment potential to former Caspian tiger (Panthera tigris virgata) range in Central Asia. Biological Conservation 205: 42-51.
Gray, T.N.E., R. Crouthers, K. Ramesh, J. Vattakaven, J. Borah, M.K.S. Pasha, T. Lim, C. Phan, R. Singh, B. Long, S. Chapman, O. Keo, M. Baltzer. (2017). A framework for assessing readiness for tiger Panthera tigris reintroduction: a case study from eastern Cambodia. Biodiversity and Conservation 26(10): 2383-2399.
The Prusten Project. (2015). Think for Tigers Initiative. https://www.theprustenproject.org/think-for-tigers-initiative.html
Wertheimer, L. (2010, September 14). The true story of a man-eating tiger’s “vengeance.” NP: Morning Edition. https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=129551459
Wikipedia contributors. (2019, July 15). Siberian tiger. In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 17:42, July 15, 2019, from https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Siberian_tiger&oldid=906384418
Wikipedia contributors. (2019, July 15). Tiger. In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 17:43, July 15, 2019, from https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tiger&oldid=906374561
This week your host visits Richard Doom (@richarddoomed) to discuss how biologists organize life and how coral fits into these definitions.
Sources:
Aldhebiani, A.Y. (2018) Species concept and speciation. Saudi Journal of Biological Sciences 25 (3): 437-440.
Attenborough, D. (Writer) & Scoones, P. (Director). (2001) Coral seas [Television series episode]. In Fothergill, A. (Producer), Blue Planet. London, UK: BBC.
Hickman, C.P., L.S. Roberts, A. Larson, H. l’Anson, D.J. Eisenhour. (2006) Integrated principles of zoology, 13th ed. New York: McGraw-Hill.
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Simpson, G.G. (1951) The species concept. Evolution 5 (4): 285-298.
Wiley, E.O. (1978) The evolutionary species concept reconsidered. Systematic Biology 27 (1): 17-26.
Wikipedia contributors. (2019, June 5). Kingdom (biology). In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 14:37, July 11, 2019, from https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kingdom_(biology)&oldid=900381901
In this first episode, your host and Becca Audrey (@aeil_runner) discuss what Gondwana is (and how many ways to mispronounce it), island biogeography, and why Australia has so many damn marsupials.
Sources:
Hickman, C.P., L.S. Roberts, A. Larson, H. l’Anson, D.J. Eisenhour. (2006) Integrated principles of zoology, 13th ed. New York: McGraw-Hill.
Vaugh, T.A., J.M. Ryan, N.J. Czaplewski. (2000) Mammology. Burlington: Jones & Bartlett Learning.
Wallace, Alfred Russel (1863). "On the Physical Geography of the Malay Archipelago". Royal Geographical Society. 7: 205–212.
Whitfield, P. (1993). From so simple a beginning: The book of evolution. New York: Macmillan.
Wikipedia contributors. (2019, May 26). Natural history of Australia. In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 18:39, July 3, 2019, from https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Natural_history_of_Australia&oldid=898809809
Wikipedia contributors. (2019, June 26). Fauna of Australia. In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 18:40, July 3, 2019, from https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fauna_of_Australia&oldid=903491707
Welcome to Buzzed Biology, where I drink and tell you things about biology that you never realized you wanted to know. In this episode, Stevie Foxette gives you some background on here expertise and why she started this podcast.