By means of genetic engineering the human race could solve a lot of problems. Its only been about eight months since the article came out. Why dont you post a few, just to keep interest in the site up. Ive noticed several people stating that no one here is entitled to new content and whatever the creators or writers are willing to put forth is fine but that is only partially true. In the 1970s a disease named Black Sigatoka was beaten back with enthusiastic applications of pesticide, but more recently a new strain of the original bane of the banana has threatened the plantations. Theyll never be as good as these ones, but at least its something. For those of you who loved the Numbers Stations article, theres a lot happening on the mysterious Russian buzzer shortwave transmitter UVB-76. QUESTION: Is banana sexually or a sexually or both, This site is using cookies under cookie policy . You both get dirty and the pig likes it. This works people, try it! Its getting close to the point where DI is fast approaching the bottom of my favourites listing. The full article is available by subscription or purchase, but here is an abstract: http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/01/10/110110fa_fact_peed. We have a couple of articles written. The Dyatlov Pass Incident Ten expert mountaineers are discovered in a pass, half naked, several hundred yards from their pass. b) Explain why this would be less likely to happen if banana plants reproduced sexually. Feel free to include your fan base on what is really going on. Each one of my posts is individual. In light of one of the best Olympic games ever, i feel bad for my fellow Dutch man Sven Kramer and Coach So be it !!! Where is this scripture located in the Kings James bible? Given how long it has been, Id just as soon assume he doesnt want to tell us, and there probably will not be another article here for a long time, if ever. I forget sometimes that youre not too bright, and that I need to walk you through things. Peanut butter jelly with a baseball bat, Also: http://www.forumsextreme.com/images/Funny_Pictures_Animated_Dancing_Banana.gif. The caterpillars death is the butterflys birth. To me it sounded as though he was basically saying he had lost his inspiration somehow. Currently the project covers Africa, with a recent expansion to Costa Rica; further expansion may eventually follow. Its funny though =), Regards, Greetings to the faithful that still read all the comments. Project blog: http://banana.mappr.info/blog/ Auras are fictional. Because I am a person who likes to see records broken, I am kind of hoping that the previous lapse of six months is exceeded. reptilesinvertebratesd. In the meantime, for your reading pleasure: Then it was discovered that there had been a scoring error and he had actually won the fight. The final nail was some of the comments in this thread, come on guys. I still hold that hope. Let us hope so, otherwise the resulting bananageddon will ensure that the Cavendish goes the way of Big Mike, and future generations of fruit lovers will have to find some other curved yellow food to complement their ice cream. Either submit an article, or cease and desist. So again very pleased to read about Misfits idea my attention came to the next comment from O_P_D. Agreed: please, please I plead and beg that the control of the site gets handed over to or at least shared with Jason Bellows, So Nice And Informative too but specially last photo is dam goood. I have faith that we will get a new article eventually. Great band with great music and damn interesting personalities. I havent bothered to register because I never have much to add that the articles or the subsequent posts dont cover so there wasnt really a point to it. This just reminds me of forced sterilization of the disabled, euthanasia, and ultimately nazism (apologies to M. Godwin). You seem to genuinely care long after most have given up and still occasionally post with tidbits of info and updates. It is very much in the early stages so yea its trial and error, but whats bad with that? I think that its slightly ridiculous that this site has turned into a message board in which frank g can insult everyone and a few oversensitive take his bait and insult him back, but thats just me. Can an editor fix the links that just redirect you to the home page? Please? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyatlov_Pass_incident. Until the middle of the twentieth century, most bananas on sale in the developed world belonged to the Gros Michel cultivar. Waaay back some friends and I used to organise parties, 400 500 people. I found this site in September of 2009, and have spent many hours reading thru the archives. Contrary to what the article might suggest, bananas are here to stay! Can you believe that I still check to see if anything new has been posted, other than, of course, posts. And, bearing this in mind, no one should be contacting him without having a damn good reason. All hail your likely successor, kumquat. You guys did not post for 6 months here and on questions about the site if it is going to be here after Juli 2010, and if we can submit an article here. Informative, interesting and a good little fact to tell someone to create greate conversation (and to look like a genius egghead!). The details are too long to address here; needless to say, I think we are safe. (makes another banana milkshake before its too late.). I believed in UFOs at the moment I was old enough to understand about them, and my wife encountered a sighting. I certainly dont think its a good way of going about trying to get them to post an article youre writing on this site :). Me neither, to be honest. Its all a lie, I tell you. This could make it plausible that every so often you could cross-pollinate and repopulate the banana plantations to naturally update their genetics. 2. In order to meet the world demand for this fruit, banana plants are grown in several I dont have a clue either, but i am not a expert. At the end of every year there are always predictions about the end of the world. As a matter of fact, we are told in the beginning of the Text in the first 50 miracle principles that miracles are natural and that when they do not occur something has gone wrong. I remember when everyone was civil to one another but now everything has changed. Are goldfinger and ladyfinger bananas the same? And that with trying to hawk products. Im sorry, Frank. Its been an absolute pleasure from start to finish :), THEY ARE EVERYWHERE !!! @one_plaid_day- Could it be that the Bellows just havent renewed their domain yet? OK so where is the next interesting bite of intellegent brain candy? also introducing the new and improved http://www.damnbanana.com. Some ten thousand years ago, early human experimenters noted that some of these hybridized Musa bore unexpectedly tasty, seedless fruit with an unheard-of yellowness and inexplicably amusing shape. Another post of mine is stuck in the spam filter, because it contains a link. Who is the actress in the otezla commercial? BTW, a future article on Thomas Midgely, Jrs arch-nemesis, Clair Patterson, could be DI! If you keep leaving comments like this, then why would he want to keep this going. Why not either submit articles ourselves, or vote with our cyberfeet? A legend in his own lunchbox. Im getting tired of checking back every few weeks to see if theres a new article or at least some reason for the lack there-of. Check out http://uvb-76.blogspot.com/ to listen in on the current transmission. There is a miracle waiting for you today, right now. You guys are such teasers. Using selective breeding to make a big dog takes years of breeding big dogs to other big dogs. Did I understand right that all commercial bananas today (except organic) are in fact genetically modified? As weather slashes Colombias production, prices rise in Ecuador, amid rampant speculation and sales without contracts (a practice soon to be outlawed). Another WordPress blog was also blocking my posts. So I will still be around, when/if we ever do get a new article. Bananageddon FUD for the whole family! In some plants, however, fruit develops without fertilization, a phenomenon known as parthenocarpy. These less labour-intensive methods promise a way to develop stronger, fitter, happier and more productive bananas. http://www.whois.net/whois/damninteresting.com you can find all the info from Allen Bellows. It was completely wiped out by a virus. Description: Woman sexually eats a banana. where our mouth(keyboard? I guess climbing back into the bottle has really helped me to cope. A giant F-U from the Bellows would be better than what were getting now. Now I know why my book smelled like ribs, lol. Please let us know what the future for Damn Interesting is after that date. There are already modern houses in Scandinavia that are so well isolated, that the heat from the lightbulbs is all that is needed to keep them warm all year round (although currently they have encountered a problem; Normal lightbulb production and sale has been banned in inside the EU). Still watching and waiting. Its basically Stephen Fry asking a panel of comedians random questions, with hilarity frequently ensuing. All rights reserved. A popular dialup service costs less than five dollars a month (or even less if prepaid). Id heard a bit about bananas being clones before but navel oranges too! Some kinds of GM are probably harmless, such as copying traits from different cultivars of the same species. Ive never ventured into the comments, but the articles were always very thought provoking, and certainly Damn Interesting! But I imagine that Mr. Bellows knows pretty well he has an avid fan base. http://www.whois.net/whois/damninteresting.com The pronoun I is always capitalized. Any article with sex and banana in the title is bound to arouse interest in any reader! I am glad he is working on it and lots of other fans are probably thrilled when his articles will appear. Although commercial banana production is done asexually with cuttings rather than seeds, the banana tree itself did evolve as a I dont know if anybody ever looks at Cracked, but I found this pretty interesting. And we did him the service of actually spelling his name right. So stop trying to be a wiseguy. GMOs = quick way of selective breeding. Matt Castle is a writer and contributing editor for Damn Interesting, and not quite an anagram of 'Clam Taste'. That is why the above quote is a good one. Your site is great and should last forever. This certainly explains why organic bananas are rare and expensive. There is a fable about two monks who were walking by the side of a stream and they came across a woman. I think youve all been pretty harsh to Frank. Its killing me that this site is not kept up I understand what others are saying about the creators, their time and it being free is very nice. Hope you all can come back soon! Flowering plants reproduce sexually through a process called pollination. Last updated 02 November 2020. If they didnt care about the site they wouldnt check in at all. Remember, though, that this can also happen naturally. p.s. We were promised monthly articles a year ago. I wonder if there already is a damnbanana.com? I caught the eye of Jones coach and just shook my head, he says. I used to get a little disappointed when the banana would always pop up instead of a new article, but I also understand that this site was a massive personal undertaking. First, that would not produce many bananas compared to demand. Good Job! DONT! Thats great news. Since its out on the Web its probably not his personal e-mail address (I may have stated that rather hastily), but regardless, he might not want to be bombarded with e-mails persistently asking why this site isnt being updated. Of course, the movie did not come up with this thought. He then offired it to the little kid who of course refused. The same thing with broccoli, wiki quote: Common vegetables such as cabbage, kale, broccoli, cauliflower, kohlrabi and Brussels sprouts are all descendants of the wild cabbage plant). Generally speaking, when one purchases a book, that person does not require a website full of perpetually delivered free content to accompany it. Too bad, it was pretty awesome. thanks DA! I think this speaks volumes about any UFO sighting. Today, bananas and their close relatives, the starchy plantains, grow in a number of different varieties or cultivars. I still check the site daily in hopes that the Phoenix has risen from the ashes and I will continue to do so. effort?) I was all Ohmygodtherewillbenobananaswhatinheckwillwedo etc. IMHO ya shouldnt look a gift horse in the teeth/mouth. Post comments here to say you have a new entry if you like, so people get used to looking at your blog. The object was not to make money but to have the kind of party that we would like to be at ourselves. Rant over.. Makes me have to wonder if KarmaPolice understands how Karma works. Maybe getting back in the saddle or diverting oneself with a cherished hobby (such as DI) sooner might have provided some contre-poids and helped to find some equilibrium sooner but I know first hand how much easier that is to say than to do. Putting ads on a site it is akin to beating it with an ugly stick. Make a website, create interest, create involvement, write a book, sell out, and retire. But surely its also okay for DIs fans to think an occasional update, or at least a goodbye wouldnt overstress anyone? Since 1992 a vigorous, pesticide-tolerant strain of Panama disease has been wiping out bananasincluding previously resistant crops of Cavendishin Southeast Asia. FRANK! Anonymousx2: Take my word for it, Im broke. kissaki: Blessings be upon thee for supporting this site, for not complaining, and for showing concern for Mr. Bellow. We wanted people to be having fun, staying hydrated and not get too drunk. Yesterday, I was at a festival and bought the CD directly from the group. DNA must be passed from both the mother and father to the child. http://www.npr.org/2010/12/10/131967516/Chemistry-Keeps-Christmas-Trees-Alive-For-Longer. At first i just wanted to copy/paste it. I recall Matt also wanted to update again as well after the banana lovin so really you got 2 of the 3 primary staff wanting to carry on. Your comment has been placed in a temporary holding cell due to its resemblance to spam. Although there are numerous other banana and plantain varieties cultivated for local consumption in Africa and Asia, none has the same worldwide appeal as the Cavendish. The fact is miracles are happening all the time; what has gone wrong is our unwillingness to notice them. Meandering Stint I am a long time Guns n Roses fan. I was preparing to reformat the computers hard drive two or three times in an effort to remove whatever bug had infected it. LordMarcus: Then we visited Malaysia that same year. Best Answer. The quarentined off the town of Kailua-Kona, and sytematically killed every banana plant!(Planticide? As a little girl growing up in the outskirts of Portland, Oregon, I remember that when we went into the big city I would often see a man standing on the street corner holding up a sign that said the end of the world was near. Except for comments, this site is dead. OK. Fair point but its fair to say they are a lot more similar than most people would care to realise. If you wanna be real damn nit-picky about things, the book was published in July, and they released three articles that month and then had one more in August, so they did at least one after the release of the book. Who knows? Damn Interesting: In the medal heat of the 1,000-meter short-track speedskating event in the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, Australian Steven Bradbury was bringing up the rear on the final turn. I suspect that you will find that scholarly-yet-entertaining writing is more difficult than it appears. I truly enjoy the reading but dislike the feeling of being unappreciated and kept out of the loop as a member. 1. Sperm cells are produced inside pollen grains. You can then use this female pollen to pollinate another female plant. In some places in the Course those fear thoughts are seen as clouds that can be easily moved through. Can you believe that I still check to see if anything new has been posted, other than, of course, posts. Stop whining like spoiled brat kids. I obviously dont want to take away anything from this website as its amazing, however, I was wondering if there was any interest in doing the same kinda thing but with user-generated articles. Sexual reproduction in plants takes place in flowers. Genetic engineering is the process of bypassing Mother Nature and shoehorning a characteristic into an object. It is not quite the same as publically giving out his home address. flower The end of something is not to be feared; just as the end of fear is not to be delayed. Peanut butter jelly with a baseball bat Hope youll be able to write again soon. In the Course it says that we think that without our ego, all would be chaos. We have no bananas today! A good story about brown bananas. Although it has enjoyed some public acceptance in Australia, it suffers from the drawbacks of a distinctly different, non-Cavendish flavour, and a longer maturation time. Got my autographed copy of Alien Hand yesterday, just in time for my B-day tomorrow. Whichever side of the ongoing debate you follow; you cannot deny either of these points. All dogs come from the same animal all dogs are different phenotypes of the wolf. Ive pretty much read through the entire site and really appreciate what youve done and that youve had the courage to keep this website advertisement free (even though you probably could have made a bit of money from this thing). It was actually borrowed from an old Zen story about the importance of emptying ones mind. A complex and challenging example showing the scope of the problem would be Biosphere 2. Pro-GM folks need to recognize that there are genuine dangers with what theyre proposing and that proper safeguards are in order, and the anti-GM folks need to recognize that technology isnt always evil and can even help with problems like world hunger, environmental degradation, etc. Long live the intellegent and amusing DI followers! I had heard about the banana fungus and Ive heard that there are bananas that taste amazing compared to the Cavandish ones. Where is the public outcry? Its been a year since I read through all of the archives and obviously I come back and check every now and again. But still, it failed. Isnt there a shelf life for banana articles? Spam? Banana news update: http://www.contestswinmoney.info, This site reminds me of B. F. Skinners box experiment an inconsistent reward produces long-term repetitive behavior to check the operandum, just in case _this_ is the lucky day. In the damninteresting article The Last Great Steam Car, Alan Bellow mentions this site called Interesting Thing of the Day http://itotd.com . No, I am not Mr. Bellows. Thanks for the update Alan. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/24/health/24radiation.html. . I learned from Bill Nyes educational show that sexual reproduction came about for the purpose of accelerating genetic diversity so we can stay ahead of parasites and diseases. Nice spam there. To be too large for worry, too noble for anger, too strong for fear, and too happy to permit the presence of trouble. Sexual reproduction in flowering plants is similar to sexual reproduction in animals. (Broadband is required.) Thats the perfect state banananananas (I can never remember how many anas they get) need to be in for banananana bread. Your answer is with you now; you merely need to clear away everything that is not the answer. He has explained the situation, personal issues to deal with, he didnt have to do that. I hope people enjoy it! My sympathies to Alan I know what it is like to lose your creative spark, and I hope you regain yours eventually! Anyone have any ideas? To me, it seems such shame that such a great website should just die like this. KarmaPoliceYou should have a glass stomach so you can see where your going.Your head is wedged firmly up your own arse. Further, he commented in October. WebFrom essential potassium supplementation to blood pressure regulation, there are plenty of reasons to love the famous fruit. We miss you. The near-extinction of the Gros-Michel banana is another example one of two major cultivars of bananas, it became impossible to grow commercially in the 20th century after the emergence of a disease to which it was genetically vulnerable. Man just got off the phone with DI staff. The banana article has found new life in China, where a pop-sci news site (one of the NetEase.com portal sites) published an edited translation on January 21. http://discover.news.163.com/10/0121/08/5THPNOJH000125LI.html, Virgil Syonid 30 January 2010 at 02:22 pm In response to The Unfortunate Sex Life of the Banana. Sorry i guess i jumped the gun. I hope that doesnt sound as sarcastic as it looks I hate txt. http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/americas/03/02/chile.quake/index.html?hpt=T1. When we dwell there, we are stuck to relieve it in our future. ( Mighty Mantes Written by Jason Bellows on 29 October 2005 ) Heres hoping for new content in the future so I can read it during work. More Damn Intereesting material heres hoping that you can get the site back up and running. 2. :), Someone in here started commenting about GM and plant auras and what not. http://www.entreating-minds.com/. Most of us wrote messages to Mr. Bellows months ago. http://thepacker.com/m/story.asp?sect=news&contentId=1002825, For anyone hungering for Damn Interesting stories, I have good news if youll settle for Quite Interesting. What I dont understand is that how come there are not more writers on this site? Take care of yourself, Alan. Patience is easier to achieve when informed, thanks for the update. Either way, the man says he is experiencing some personal difficulties. Isnt there a village somewhere missing you, Frank? DI Readers. computer?) Good to hear from Alan, I look forward to seeing new content soon (not to say re-reading all the old stuff hasnt been enjoyable!). How the banana's sweet taste and cheerful appearance obscure a potentially calamitous sexual inadequacy. Thanks, from your die hard fan; Tink, Jason Bellows said: Raketemensch said: Come on, folks, this is getting ridiculous. Hi Allen, Friday, 01-29-2010. 3. Gerard Kemkers. Just want to say that I had the book bought by my Wife for me for my birthday, and it is excellent! http://jubal.westnet.com/hyperdiscordia/library_of_babel.html Astonishing. DI owes you nothing. https://www.damninteresting.com/mighty-mantes. Bellows and Sons? What I really wonder is how we organisms made that change from asexual to sexual reproduction. I feel somewhat slighted that theres nothing new on this site, but theres nothing new on here for a reason and theres nothing I can do about it, by any means. Just fiction, but hey its free, > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voynich_manuscript. Please ignore the 7 above; it was only a test. Just let us know. You wrote your comment bellow here and I dont know if your joking or not but it is not funny. , Ginger plants reproduce using rhizomes. Banana Sexual Reproduction In nature, bananas reproduce through sexual reproduction. I dont appreciate being called smart ass and arrogant, when you dont even know me. WebWoman sexually eats a banana Royalty-Free Stock Photo Beautiful woman erotically eating a banana standing in the kitchen woman, kitchen, beautiful, banana, eating, background, Your just another one who is so full of it. It seems to me that something similar could be done with bananas. Join me in urging the Bellowses to publish another book. When you are ready to return Mr. Bellows, youll have one of the most loving communities waiting to get back at it! You should too. Alls theyve come up with so far is Bulldozer Sex in Granby, which despite being DI, isnt really up to the sites standards. x = 5b.) As the century progressed, commercial growers found themselves in a desperate race against time, making doomed attempts to establish new plantations in disease-free areas of rainforest before the fungus arrived. For that, I recommend a slice of pie with a Thorazine chaser. Lets not be too hasty. Sorry, this is completely off topic, but how do you who have them get the little pictures next to your names? when does the ip run out? Of course this says nothing about about future activity on the site. This is some great stuffand just the kind of work Id expect! And the rest of it was a fun read. I sincerely doubt that you would have ever bought the book. Ohh well, DI article. news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2011/08/sri-lankas-new-flashpoint.html. I couldnt agree more. Seems like a win win to me. :P. Along with a Dadgum it, you young whippersnappers, I assume? In short: Rumors of DI domain expiration may be greatly exaggerated. Still lookin in every now and then just in case. I dont want it to, but it might end up falling off in to the oblivion where everything else of no interest falls. The girl that showed her breast on Joe Dirt? However, irrespective of that fact, I still must maintain the authors of this site has an obligation imposed by the motion they have set before themselves to live up to the integrity of this site. Seriously though, it happens all the time. Immpressive, but you are not a website, yet! **********************************************************************, To educate yourself for the feeling of gratitude means to take This is Alans EMAIL address alan@alanbellows.com so let us all write him to keep this site up and ask for a comment from Alan or one of his associates. Did you know forks were invented in the seventh century? youre doing it badly. Its pretty cool. I like that he called Frank a wanker. That belongs to Vanilla. Bananas also contain tryptophan, an amino acid needed for serotonin production, our feel-good hormones. Bananas are also packed with potassium, used to produce sex hormones, and improve heart health and sex drive. Bananas also contain an enzyme called bromelain, which helps improve blood flow and increase libido. Another submission to temporarily entertain and interest bored, impatient, and otherwise restless minds: The latest (plausible and non-extraterrestrial-involving) hypothesis regarding the construction of the Pyramids in Egypt holds that they were made not of giant quarried blocks of limestone hauled by slaves at all, but rather of reconstituted limestone a concrete, of sorts poured into giant block-shaped molds. As in GM corn, soy etc, stuff that were suppose to avoid because it has no DNA and some say no aura and are therefore most probably harmful for our health. There may very well be challenges you have to face, but carrying your fear and judgments from the past do you no good and certainly do not allow you to be open to experience the miracle that is awaiting you. Congratulations! Bellows and company also have lives outside of this site, and they have provided a great extensive service at no cost to us fans, and with no annoying advertising! (Disclaimer: I have no connection with the project or the banana industry.). Usually by taking a paragraph taken from the previous article, changing all of the nouns, and then dumping it in as the seed paragraph of the current article. We in the Midwest are deprived of a taste others take for granted. Im sure these guys have lives, families, jobs until theres a subscription required, I think we get what we get and like it. They have no substance and only have the power to stop us that we have given them. Please add your comments there: Youre still paying for the fucking site. As practiced Have a great day, and yes i am still hoping for new articles here. A completely non-banana related DI article: http://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/12/ff_collarbomb/ The article starts: A man walked in to a bank with a bomb locked around his neck and only gets stranger after that! I just posted an addendum to the Mawson story there, derived from a Readers Digest article on the terible trek. HI ALL I AM NOT AT ALL WORRIED ABOUT THE SITE ANYMORE IT WILL GO ON FOR SURE SEE THE OLDER COMMENTS DOWN HERE . It appears that what I read before is true. Individual fruitor fingerssit comfortably in the human hand, readily detached from their close-packed companions. one day early. But their sides are kind of rounded, so they cant be fully triploid. Strawberry plants reproduce through stolons or runners. Runners extend out several inches from the crown, take root in the soil, and produce new plants called daughter plants.. When you break a promise, most often you have the decency to explain why rather than just post an enigmatic comment on personal difficulties and disappear. Are you.. dear reader, up to the challenge?? Beyond all of that, this site is not their main source of revenue. go to http://oilpunk.com/ & under categories select -history(8) scroll down to snow motor from 1926 & play the LIVELEAK vid. Hmm. Hes actually Dutch so is speaking in a different language hence his English isnt perfect so give him a break. That really helps. Ive read everything except for some of the stories about weapons. Train yourself never to put off Enough faux loyalty. b) How many of these are odd numbers? Perhaps it was set to auto-renew. dRAEMtYGER, I hope youre right about the Big Mike. To be just as enthusiastic about the success of others as you are about your own. Sexual reproduction in flowering plants involves the production of separate male and female gametophytes that produce gametes. It take I might be wrong, but from my several years reading DI, I think that around the Jewish High Holidays, articles always seemed to grind to a halt. I stuck around through the occasional pause in new articles, and through the reposting of older ones. Im looking forward to when Damn Interesting officially returns. But if they havent told us then maybe its none of our business. Flowering trees are dicots, that is. My work days could soon be damn interesting again! Yes, Alan Bellows! N = All Rights Reserved. wait let me clarify are you asking that if the cell makes up tissue healthy or not? and that is for me unacceptable, and thankfully we live in a free country with free opinion. I am very upset to learn that I have been eating bananas from the wrong end. Tell that to the farmers in India whose GMO grain required so much water that theyve sucked their water table down to the brine. If I was a Bellows brother, Id be sorely tempted to throw in the towel after reading some of the garbage demanding more content. EXCELLENT! It turn out that people are more selective about texture than flavor. another science blog: http://www.nowforthesciencebit.com/ But my patience is wearing thin. The banana plant is a hybrid, originating from the mismatched pairing of two South Asian wild plant but thats a bad banana! No, not this one he replied This one is a Chocolate banana! Oh ok! and the kid ate the whole thing smiling. This is getting ridiculous. (gripe-gripe, bellyache-bellyache). What is the zero of f(x) = I grew up in Hawaii(the big island) And some point about 10 years ago there was a banana virus outbreak that I as a kid thought was stupid. That simple. Nostradamus, the famous 16th century French seer, the Bible with its Armageddon, and now 2012, the end of the Mayan calendar, all prophesize the end of the world. damn bananaI bought the durn book Alcmon, lets get it started. Allans alive!!! Do you realize how little content there is online? I have never liked Cavendish but those ladyfingers are the bomb! Just wanted to thank you for all the time and effort youve put into this website. Youre scary., Fixed. Asexual reproduction is a process that the majority is familiar with. Not all the seasons are up there, but I would highly recommend season 5, which is my favorite so far. A sign? Research it. Hmm Ill have to figure out how to add pictures here, though. Here from a link on mental_flosss article on (of course) bananas. This may be easier said than done, but that is no excuse not to start. Wow. This is not, and has not been for a long time, an altruistic endeavour. It will be found only by you. First reading the description of the banana, people will first think of a human banana( do you get what I mean?). Research stations in commercial banana growing countries, such as Honduras, engage large squads of banana sex workers for such tasks, and to screen the new plant varieties for favourable characteristics. The banana, however, is a freakish and fragile genetic mutant; one that has survived through the centuries due to the sustained application of selective breeding by diligent humans. Now just type in your browsers adress bar: https://www.damninteresting.com/?p=123. . My dads apple bananas are seriously like eating candy when it is just ripe. 1. Kejawa had a good point there, something should be done perhaps like what went down with GnR->Velvet Revolver. Well, thats not what I thought this article was going to be about. Perhaps one slice of banana per consumer per year, at a possible cost of $2 per slice. Bad habits return as always. three sides. So when she came to me very excited about what she saw in 2007 on a clear night, lights in a triangle formation coming towards her and then suddenly disappear, I BELIEVED HER! Okay, so Im another long-time lurker who has decloaked in a crisis. I enjoy bananas as much as the next individual, but I really hope scientists put cancer ahead of bananas on the Stuff to Fix list. I too monitor the site, and I appreciate you perseverant ones. I know way to many people who like unripe, pale tasting bananas and they think Im weird because I dont like bananas yet grew up in Hawaii. Kind of like lollipops, which were also designed by god. He decided to take a nap and ended up sleeping through his event, breaking the heart of his country. Frank. I couldnt imaging a world without bananas. There was a link to some neat buggy photos. I hope this means that things are looking up for you :). After two years, you no longer lead the way. Or look up the conditions Monsanto puts on the sale of their grains, which include a prohibition on scientific testing to scrutinize their claims about how well their products work. (Results assuming a log-normal distribution are qualitatively similar. Get people hooked with fascinating stories and witty writing, string them out, give them just a little taste of the good stuff, then disappear back into the ether. Thank you DI crew for some of the most fascinating SFW content on the web. @MacAvity go to http://www.gravatar.com and youre on your way. And, finally, once again: Please buy the book if you have not already. Who knows, while I wait I might even try my hand at a writing sample, if only for kicks and giggles. There isnt much happening here at the minute for whatever reason, and Im not going to get drawn into whatever the reasons behind it are except to say thanks for all the DI stuff so far and fingers crossed some more will be coming eventually. Can someone explain pls? (http://www.whois.net/whois/damninteresting.com). I have done both. Its at least worth a try. Sweet irony. P.S. To genetically modify something implies that it must have genes to modify. Yay!!! Rant off. I am sorry that other difficulties of life have kept you away, but I look forward (patiently) to any articles you care to share in the future once the time finds you. People like KarmaPolice are just mad because they are so incapable of creating something worthwhile that the only way for them to leave any kind of mark in the world is by wasting away their miserable lives tearing down others. and that is for me unacceptable, and thankfully we live in a free country with free opinion. Talk about literally getting to eat the fruits of his labor! I agree that they need to put some advertisements on the site. They also proved an excellent source of carbohydrates and other important nutrients. 3. Who Discovered Amer Kultura o Kaugaliang Pilipino makikita sa Noli Mi Tangere KABANATA 6-10 13. She was in great distress, for she needed to get across the stream but she could not swim. You can specify conditions of storing and accessing cookies in your browser, Situation: There is a terrible drought in East Africa. I hope the dregs of the DI visitors can create something together =). What are the 7 Types of asexual reproduction in plants? Sex, bananas, naval orangeswhat would Freud say! Theyll get around to publishing more content when it suits them, and not when a bunch of whiny jerks tell them to. Jason: Semi-literate bullshit. any green, and it is too ripe. Current goals: banana.mappr.info/blog/?page_id=52 I still look in most days in vain hope. How about showing some appreciation for the free content youve had for so long, and getting off the Bellows backs? I like odd stories, Wallechinsky says. For a short video visit YouTube and search for this video ID: Select pesticide-enhanced grains have been shown in independent tests (some of which have already been mentioned in this forum) to cause carcinoma, meningioma, and other varieties of cancer. Not a lot of point responding to Alans post (#414) given that T-Zero on the clock is nearly here but just wanted to add my voice to everyone else thanking him and Jason for all theyve done and for wishing them the best through the trials and tribulations of life. DI and damn amusing. cuttings rather than seeds, the banana tree itself did evolve as a Sweet! c) Describe the benefits of reproducing banana plants asexually. It would be nice if all the selfish whining people went away and stopped demanding more content from the good folk at Damn Interesting. A bunch of Lady Finger bananas was 30 ringgit, which equalled about 1 Aussie dollar. What kind of jerk is this to just hijack the famous Bellows website of DI?? Life is full of critics and I am just one of them, as of now I consider this matter/subject for a respond from one of the writers as closed. If they make one great, if not thank you for all the free content and I see no reason why you need to turn over the website to anyone else. Well, why not? Unemployed 18 year oldswho lve wih their parents dont have much cash to spare after car insurance and gas. When they get brown and soft, they get must more sweet. Citing sources? I have bought another one of the books as a Christmas gift, but the people Ive given books to are also wondering why the site is dead. staff You will receive an answer to the email. Elise. Its the proud yellow monolith beneath which we claim refuge from our turbulent world. 10.5 years older. Just because you have to cross-breed two musa to get the perfect fruit doesnt make it any less of a perfect design for consumption. I check back about once a month to see if anythings happened with the site, so I was pleasantly surprised when I saw your recent update. Asexual Reproduction. Guys now 10 months later and not really any interesting going on here I am thrilled and happily to announce to you all that Chris Hall one of DI longest fans here gave life to another interesting site. I am of the book generation, as are quite a few of us who visit this site. Come on, folks, this is getting ridiculous. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milgram_experiment, Ah I love freedom of speech, Go Michael Go, But i still have my hands full of all your older stuff so take your time. But the enclosure of Biosphere 2 was only a little over three acres. Strawberry plants produce runners that put down roots and form new plants. I found the Snow-Motor from 1926 in a couple of places and thought it was D.I. Clicking on Read the rest of this article doesnt work several articles, including Son of Krakatoa, The Winchester Mystery House, etc. The Bellowses et al are great writers. GMOseugenics on steroidswhich have so far proven to be a far less predictable and far more destructive trial-and-error science?. Hermetically sealed farming of food crops in high worldwide demand is never likely to become a viable approach. The United Nations is working to get vitally needed medications into the refugee camps. It was semi-private, i.e. Hope to have Damn good read before too Damn long. No, really, Im not kidding. Thanks for not giving up on us entirely. Wrong- Reported They also eat orange peels with pulp and the cores of a variety of fruits with varying enthusiasm. 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