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A Blue Collar Slob’s Introduction to the Rare Oakland Manzanita [video]
- whyenot 7y agoI never would have expected to see a Crime Pays But Botany Doesn't videos posted here. He has a whole series of videos. The language can be a little rough, but the videos are filled with interesting and accurate botanical information.
- EdwardDiego 7y agoHis love of botany (and edaphology) shines through. I've subscribed.
- pbhjpbhj 7y ago>Specifically, edaphology is the study in how soils influence and interact on/with living things, especially those of plants. It is the study of the ecological relationship soil has with land cultivation practices and plants. // That's a new word for me.
- montalbano 7y agoIndeed, I wasn't sure whether to submit. But given Hacker News' purview of anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity I felt strongly that it fitted in.
- davidw 7y agoSomething kind of off the beaten path is way better than a lot of things. It's interesting and informative and isn't trying to make a point in some controversy.
- rendall 7y agoI'm ashamed to admit I was put off at first by the heavy Chicago accent, but holy shit this was interesting and informative, and the fellow knows his botany. I liked, subscribed, and "hit that bell" as the youtubers say these days.
- mef 7y agoout of curiosity, why do you think accents put you off?
- rendall 7y agoI don't have a problem with accents at all. I think, at first, I thought he was faking or exaggerating his accent for effect. Then I realized I wasn't familiar with the Chicago accent enough to know what was real or exaggerated. Then I decided to just listen to the guy and forget about the accent. All this happened within about 10-15 seconds. In retrospect, I am super familiar with and rather fond of the Bronx, Brooklyn and Boston accents; maybe for me the Chicago accent falls into a kind of uncanny valley where it's close to those other accents to sound almost the same, but different enough to sound "weird" and "fake". But, the more I watch these videos, the more his accent will be familiar to me.
- MisterTea 7y ago> I'm ashamed to admit I was put off at first by the heavy Chicago accent, As someone with a thick NYC accent it's gratifying to see someone else with a rough appearance and thick accent dish out some knowledge. I only watched the video for a few min and already I see tattoos and hear cursing. Most people would probably write this man off as unintelligent and of low class. I myself have had to mask my accent in some situations as I've been told it makes me sound "common". (fuck you) And although I don't have any tattoos, I know plenty of people who look down on them. I worked for a guy who forced employees with visible arm tattoos to wear long sleeve shirts. It's amazing how many so-called progressive people still espouse classist bigitroy.
- amos19870630 7y agoLove the videos, I am now a subscriber.
- aloer 7y agoturn on the generated subtitles. Impressive how well it picks up all these botany terms
- jcims 7y agoThis is the same guy that rescued the coyote pup a while back. I can't find the full video on his channel any more, but did find an 'archival copy': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02m_oByCJ8A https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02m_oByCJ8A
- DubiousPusher 7y agoI'm always a fan of the bringing together of the sophisticated and the profane. Thanks for sharing.
- monkeycantype 7y agoThis sounds like something I'm going to like. My uncle, who once taught ancient greek at johns hopkins, explained to me the ancient greek understanding of sacred and profane was that profane was the normal relationship with reality, and what was outside of that was sacred. The example he gave was that in order to be executed, prisoners first had to be made sacred, so that killing them wasn't a transgression.
- ethn 7y agoYou would love Eliade’s The Sacred and Profane. This also is a good prerequisite to understand Girard’s work.
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- MaysonL 7y agoThere was an astronomy prof at my college who collected Chaplin (and other silent) movies and would show them throughout the year, with his wonderful ragtime piano accompaniment. https://www.swarthmore.edu/a-brief-history/1963-astronomer-peter-van-de-kamp-discovers-planetary-system https://www.swarthmore.edu/a-brief-history/1963-astronomer-p... https://aas.org/obituaries/peter-van-de-kamp-1901-1995 https://aas.org/obituaries/peter-van-de-kamp-1901-1995
- IIAOPSW 7y agoI got some mad eloquent words for your ass.
- overcast 7y agoBeen watching this dude since the beginning, he's like the Andrew Dice Clay of Botany. Knows his shit for sure.
- tbeutel 7y agoLove it. Thanks for posting!
- davidw 7y agoI love that vegetation and landscape - the oaks and madrones, and higher up, pines, with lots of grassy meadows. It starts in southern Oregon and extends south in fits and starts.
- rectangletangle 7y agoI like how he points out the texture of the bark. It's extremely smooth, and cool to the touch. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arctostaphylos https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arctostaphylos
- rootw0rm 7y agointeresting. I have manzanitas all over my property up here in Anza, CA. Their bark isn't smooth though. It's rough and it peels off in thin papery strips everywhere.
- enahs-sf 7y agoI stumbled across a beautiful grove of these manzanitas once up by pinehurst where Alameda county meets Contra Costa. They are a beautiful species and do look rather alien compared to the rest of the flora around.
- chrisweekly 7y agoTangent: all you tree-loving readers should pick up Richard Powers's latest, "The Overstory: A Novel". It's beautifully written (deservedly won the 2019 Pulitzer), and is all about trees.
- inamberclad 7y agoLove this guy - I don't think most people realize how extraordinarily rich the natural life is in the Bay Area. I went on a tour of a restored part of the marshes and it was incredible - Ospreys and Seals in the South Bay!
- 01100011 7y agoIf you're into CA natives, a good resource of videos, albeit low quality and requiring Flash, can be found at http://naturebytesvideo.com/ http://naturebytesvideo.com/ Also, https://www.laspilitas.com/ https://www.laspilitas.com/ is a great resource as well as a nursery providing CA native plants.
- musclecrab 7y agoTony Santoro's my dude! I like to think if I had a cranky botanist uncle from Chicago this would be him. I remember, probably the first of his videos I stumbled across on YouTube. The botany knowledge and quips gave me chuckles, then for the end piece, a call for donations: "so if you wanna make a donation, my venmo is 'societyishell'". damn near killed me. the subscribe button was clicked.
- zer00eyz 7y agoSeeing this here just clued me in to why I love this channel so much. There has always been a "cultural" association that inteliect has to be complete. That to be educated is to be well spoken. The fact that there is the inherit counter point between knowledge and delivery makes it entrancing.
- wahern 7y agoThe accent is a bit of a shtick. In a short news piece from a Chicago TV station his accent is much more subdued. Not surprising as I've never heard someone with that thick of a Chicago accent outside an SNL skit.
- rwnspace 7y agoWouldn't you adapt your speaking tone and accent to the context? I did the one time I went on TV.