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<p>Fronds. Forest dwellers. Spores. Houseplants. Queer icons. We’ve got ferns. The charming and hilarious professor and author of “Ferns: Lessons in Survival from Earth’s Most Adaptable Plants,” Dr. Fay-Wei Li, tells me all about fern evolution, what ferns not to have in your house, the most expensive ferns, the tastiest ferns, mathematical mysteries, and a genome that makes no sense, to me or a lot of Pteridologists. Also, can Between Two Ferns save science? This episode is, in Fay-Wei’s words, “ferntastic.”</p><p>Visit Dr. Li’s <a href="https://www.fernway.net/" target="_blank">lab website</a> and follow him on <a href="https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=7rl7ZLwAAAAJ&hl=en" target="_blank">Google Scholar</a></p><p>Buy his book, <i>Ferns: Lessons in Survival from Earth’s Most Adaptable Plants</i>, on <a href="https://bookshop.org/p/books/ferns-lessons-in-survival-from-earth-s-most-adaptable-plants-fay-wei-li/2d12b92c946ca872?ean=9781958417850&next=t&" target="_blank">Bookshop.o...