Operating in a Silo

monsterbeard:

leslieshaffer:

I heard this on NPR today and was disturbed for three reasons.

Apparently…

1. There was a better, more delicious banana variety in the U.S. until the 50s. 

2. There are more delicious bananas all over the world, including one in the Philippines that is known by banana aficionados as the best. 

3. Our American bananas as we know them are susceptible to an epidemic that might destroy them for good in a decade or so. 

I feel cheated. 

Guys!  We have never tasted the bananas our grandparents grew up with!  We are eating inferior bananas and we don’t even know better!

Another crazy fact: all the bananas we eat are genetically identical, which also contributes to their rapid global decline.

Life, man.  Sometimes I don’t know…

nedhepburn:

So my friends leave the bar, because it’s 2:30am and they’re attractive and are probably going to bump (beautiful) uglies with eachother, and I walk back in, because I’m the sexual equivalent of a lifesize Garfield and more single than the number 2 at a binary convention.

And…

quite the read this morning