Not exact matches
More than 20,000 people annually stroll among
plants such as taro, sweet potato,
banana, and coconut palm, which were likely introduced to the island hundreds of years ago
by Polynesians traveling
by canoe.
As part of the Building a Better Explainer project at N.Y.U.'s Studio 20, we decided to create a visual explainer of radiation levels, inspired
by some recent presentations over at XKCD and Information is Beautiful.Both compare radiation doses from everyday activities (like eating a
banana or flying across the country) to doses near the Fukushima
plant, as well as other disasters like Chernobyl.
The
banana is an edible fruit, botanically a berry, produced
by several kinds of large herbaceous flowering
plants in the genus Musa.
A universal truth in nutrition is that you can't judge a food, and a
plant food especially, simply
by looking at its nutritional table and that especially applies to
bananas.
A study aimed at analysing the melatonin contents of various
plant foods found that pineapple, oranges, and
bananas all increased blood melatonin content
by over 200 %.
The Cavendish
banana plant was originally native to Southeast Asia, as it replaced the Gros Michel which was wiped out
by fungus.
Just wanted to share that BananaWave, the newest
plant milk (like almond or rice milk but made with
bananas instead) also works here, and also allows you to skip the added sweeteners (to the commentor who was worried about sweetening / calories) as it is pretty sweet
by itself.
It is surrounded
by coconut palms, mango trees, bamboo, plantations,
bananas and many flowering tropical
plants.
Villa Margarita, a new luxury estate privately surrounded
by nearly 2 acres of coconut palms,
banana plants and tropical flowers.
Read a book
by the spectacular pool, dine on exquisite international cuisine, sip cocktails on the terrace and wander around the immaculate landscaped gardens festooned with bamboo groves,
banana plants, and mango trees.
There have been a host of efforts to describe Japan's earthquake and nuclear emergency, ranging from volumes of helpful graphics generated
by The Times and other media to freelance efforts, including the «sonification» of a month of earthquake activity surrounding the great quake off Japan
by Paul May and a chart
by Randall Munroe comparing human radiation exposure from an array of sources — ranging from a
banana to a mammogram to a leaking nuclear
plant and «A Layman's Intro to Radiation»
by Ellen McManis, who operates a research reactor at Reed College.
Pruning and weeding is done
by machete, and the coffee is grown among
banana and grapefruit trees,
planted to diversify the
plantings and create the right shade conditions.
You can bring in the feel of nature into your modern living room
by decorating it with real
plants, such as an indoor
banana plant.