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Nudge Theory’s Dark Side (w/ Richard Thaler), Hybrid Fruit Science, Words for “Pirate”

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How Did They Join Two Fruits Together?

A listener asks how plum cots are made. A famous botanist crossed a plum tree with an apricot tree to produce fruits that were 50 % plum and 50% apricot. Some fruits you may not even realize are hybrids, like boison berries is a hybrid of blackberry and raspberry. And grape fruits are an accidental hybrid Of orange and pamello.

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