Delicious Ghost Superfriend, Louise, has been working hard to bring a unique Polaroid show to NYC. The fruit of her labors pops off tonight in Long Island City at The Texas Fire House.
The Instant, July 26th 7-9 p.m.
Texas Fire House, 36-29 Vernon Blvd.
LIC, NY, 11106

From This American Life
Thanks, Devin

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This fascinating article over at NY Times explains some trivia about bananas and plants (no pun) fear of banana extinction simultaneously.

Unlike apple and orange growers, banana importers sell only a single variety of their fruit, the Cavendish. The banana is a living organism. It can get sick, and since bananas all come from the same gene pool, a virulent enough malady could wipe out the world’s commercial banana crop in a matter of years. This has happened before. Our great-grandparents grew up eating not the Cavendish but the Gros Michel banana, a variety that everyone agreed was tastier. But starting in the early 1900s, banana plantations were invaded by a fungus called Panama disease and vanished one by one. Over the past decade, however, a new, more virulent strain of Panama disease has begun to spread across the world, and this time the Cavendish is not immune. The fungus is expected to reach Latin America in 5 to 10 years, maybe 20. The big banana companies have been slow to finance efforts to find either a cure for the fungus or a banana that resists it. Nor has enough been done to aid efforts to diversify the world’s banana crop by preserving little-known varieties of the fruit that grow in Africa and Asia.

This video needs no explanation, you’ll know why you’re watching it as soon as it gets… awesome.
Thanks, Elliiot

Anyone know the story of this little darling? Gallery of images after the jump.

Found here

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Then internet is a fickle bitch. One week you’re fiendin’, scrounging around for the pow-pow and coming up with gnar-gnar…the next week it’s like BAM! the internet dumps awesome all over your forehead.

I got meatscapes on my face. The artwork of Nicolas Lampert

If the above link is b0rked, make the jump for a meatscape gallery.

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60 Pages of awesome images from Ben Pearce on Flickr

Vikings, who needs a reason to post a bunch of photos of them? Not us.

More vikings after the jump

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