Gee, I haven't posted since last summer...
Happy fall, y'all. Good ol' autumnal equinox, one of two times a year the old wives tail crops up that exactly at the equinox timing you can balance a raw egg on its end. That's a true statement. The complete truth is with great patience and dexterity you can balance a raw egg on its end any day of the year. It's not all that it's cracked up to be.
Bananas. They're monocots, as opposed to dicots...refreshing your basic biology, flowering plants come from 2 types of seeds: the single cotyledon (embryonic leaf), hence "mono-" and the two-cotyledon seeds, hence "di-". One distinguishing characteristic of monocots is you can tear their leaves in straight lines (like grass blades, corn leaves, palm leaves, etc. You can't tear a maple leaf in a straight line, one small trait of a dicot.) Another feature of monocots is that certain parts, like flower petals, come in 3's (or a multiple thereof). So here is a cool thing to do with a 'nana....
Take a banana......
Peel down halfway........
Bite the tip off.......
Carefully take your finger and work it into the center of the banana...
The fruit will separate into three 120-degree angled segments as you work your finger downward.
Learn somethin' new every day, don't you.
May your Monday be equally as appealing...
Happy fall, y'all. Good ol' autumnal equinox, one of two times a year the old wives tail crops up that exactly at the equinox timing you can balance a raw egg on its end. That's a true statement. The complete truth is with great patience and dexterity you can balance a raw egg on its end any day of the year. It's not all that it's cracked up to be.
Bananas. They're monocots, as opposed to dicots...refreshing your basic biology, flowering plants come from 2 types of seeds: the single cotyledon (embryonic leaf), hence "mono-" and the two-cotyledon seeds, hence "di-". One distinguishing characteristic of monocots is you can tear their leaves in straight lines (like grass blades, corn leaves, palm leaves, etc. You can't tear a maple leaf in a straight line, one small trait of a dicot.) Another feature of monocots is that certain parts, like flower petals, come in 3's (or a multiple thereof). So here is a cool thing to do with a 'nana....
Take a banana......
Peel down halfway........
Bite the tip off.......
Carefully take your finger and work it into the center of the banana...
The fruit will separate into three 120-degree angled segments as you work your finger downward.Learn somethin' new every day, don't you.
May your Monday be equally as appealing...
2 comments:
very cool! i always knew you could separate a banana into threes but just didn't know why - science wasn't always my best subject :-)
i'm making chocolate-banana smoothies for the girls for breakfast one day this week - now i have a way to add some science into it - thanks! lol!
happy monday!
Needless to say, kids love this little trick, and adults look at me and go "Did you ever want to grow up?" HA! Let 'em do it as you make the smoothies...they'll get a kick out of it!
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