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The variety of banana that accounts for ninety-nine per cent of global banana shipments, the Cavendish, is being decimated by a fungal disease and faces extinction the coming decades.
— Nov 17, 2020 07:29AM
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If deaths from mushroom poisoning are any metric of national fungal enthusiasm, compare the one or two deaths a year in the United States with the two hundred deaths in Russia and Ukraine in the year 2000.
— Nov 17, 2020 03:45PM
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Within complex adaptive systems, small changes can bring about large effects that can only be observed in the system as a whole. Rarely can a neat arrow be plotted between cause and effect. Stimuli--which may be unremarkable gestures in themselves--swirl into often surprising responses. Financial crashes are a good example of this type of dynamic nonlinear process. So are sneezes, and orgasms.
— Nov 17, 2020 12:39PM
