Galaxies and Bananas: A Cosmic Comparison

It's all right there on the tin - this episode is BANANAS. And not just because we have the most guests we've ever had in Tangents history. Not even just because one of them is a super special surprise RETURN friend of the pod. And not even because we check out some flowers that are way more uncomfortable to look at than you think. No, this episode is bananas because we're talking about (you guessed it) bananas!

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[Truth or Fail Express]

Banana peel pasta

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2405844022023325

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/08/220809141224.htm

Banana peel perfume adherent

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0360132323007679

https://www.scopus.com/record/display.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85021229177&origin=inward&txGid=4b400d048de28231cfb5cce2c0ee924a

Banana peel water filtration

https://www.acs.org/pressroom/presspacs/2011/acs-presspac-april-13-2011/banana-peels-get-a-second-life-as-water-purifier.html

https://www.livescience.com/13276-banana-peels-filter-toxic-metals.html

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/ie101499e

[This or That: Yellow or Not Yellow?]

Banana fiddler crab

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00265-020-02899-w

Image: https://www.eurekalert.org/multimedia/753425

Image: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Austruca_mjoebergi_coenobita.jpg

Banana galaxies 

https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.15232

Nokia 8110 aka the “banana phone” 

https://www.mobilephonemuseum.com/phone-detail/nokia-8110

https://www.mobilephonemuseum.com/phone-detail/hmd-global-nokia-8110-4g

Image: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nokia_8110.jpg

Image of 4G: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nokia_8110_4G.png

[Ask the Science Couch]

Commercial banana cultivar genetics and Fusarium wilt or other disease risks

https://academic.oup.com/jxb/article-abstract/4/1/87/588827

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0154448

https://journals.ashs.org/horttech/view/journals/horttech/31/6/article-p838.xml

https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2016/01/11/462375558/our-favorite-banana-may-be-doomed-can-new-varieties-replace-it

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-017-01670-6

[Butt One More Thing]

Honey bee alarm pheromones contain the banana flavor isoamyl acetate

https://www.nature.com/articles/1951018b0

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2017.2653