Episode · People I (Mostly) Admire · 2023-01-21
Books mentioned on 97. How Smart Is a Forest?
Ecologist Suzanne Simard studies the relationships between trees in a forest: they talk to each other, punish each other, and depend on each other. What can we learn from them?
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Finding the Mother Tree
Finding the Mother Tree by Suzanne Simard is a scientific memoir detailing the author's pioneering research into how trees communicate, share resources, and function cooperatively within complex forest ecosystems.
Recommended“If you want to learn more about how Suzanne samard much more successfully than me took on the flawed conventional wisdom of Forestry check out her fascinating book entitled Finding the mother tree”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (1) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Own book Freakonomics
“30 years later I can honestly say that as many papers that I've written that have policy implications I can very precisely estimate the total sum impact that my research and Freakonomics books and podcasting has had on policy and that is a big fat zero”