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Because I have my finger on the pulse of what's cool and hip, this month's wallpaper is inspired by vintage seed catalogues. Please enjoy it along with a bonus September wallpaper from the archives here:

http://skin-horse.com/wallpaper_heirloom.html 

Thanks so much!


--Shaenon

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allanfranta

They could bring back Gros Michel bananas if people weren't such wusses about GMO. If you don't know about Big Mike bananas it's because you are too young. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gros_Michel_banana

Mark

I don't remember losing them, so I guess I am too young, even though not young by most standards. I think we'll have to crank out the GMO to have bananas at all once Panama disease gets a taste for the Cavendish.

Nick Smith

Actually, the loss of Gros Michel bananas in most areas wasn't exactly because of GMOs, or the reaction against them. They were a naturally-bred variety that is just very susceptible to diseases. That made it a bad mono-crop, because infections spread like wildfire. That's why the banana companies changed to other varieties 50+ years ago. There was talk about genetically modifying it to reduce that, but all I've seen so far is cross-breeding with other varieties, which still might be better than a GMO mono-crop.