Bananas with Answer in Progress

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! SciShow Tangents is on YouTube! Go to www.youtube.com/scishowtangents to check out this episode with the added bonus of seeing our faces! Head to www.patreon.com/SciShowTangents to find out how you can help support SciShow Tangents, and see all the cool perks you’ll get in return, like bonus episodes and a monthly newsletter! A big thank you to Patreon subscribers Garth Riley and Glenn Trewitt for helping to make the show possible! And go to https://store.dftba.com/collections/scishow-tangents to buy some great Tangents merch! Follow us on Twitter @SciShowTangents, where we’ll tweet out topics for upcoming episodes and you can ask the science couch questions! SciShow Tangents is on YouTube! Go to www.youtube.com/scishowtangents to check out this episode with the added bonus of seeing our faces! Head to www.patreon.com/SciShowTangents to find out how you can help support SciShow Tangents, and see all the cool perks you’ll get in return, like bonus episodes and a monthly newsletter! A big thank you to Patreon subscribers Garth Riley and Glenn Trewitt for helping to make the show possible! And go to https://store.dftba.com/collections/scishow-tangents to buy some great Tangents merch! Follow us on Twitter @SciShowTangents, where we’ll tweet out topics for upcoming episodes and you can ask the science couch questions! [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