<p>Ô Canada is bananas, scientific progress used to be bananas, and the farming of bananas is itself bananas.</p>

<ul>
  <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O_Canada#Lyrics">O Canada in English and French</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/2019/08/banana-fungus-latin-america-threatening-future/">Banana fungus arrives in Colombia</a>
    <ul>
      <li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ispyUzpJlWU">Yes, We Have No Bananas</a></li>
      <li><a href="https://candyfunhouse.ca/products/mccormicks-marshmallow-bananas">McCormicks Marshmallow Bananas</a></li>
    </ul>
  </li>
  <li><a href="http://www.econtalk.org/patrick-collison-on-innovation-and-scientific-progress/">Patrick Collison on EconTalk</a>, on the pace of science</li>
  <li>The <a href="https://www.npr.org/2016/07/16/485696248/a-chemist-accidentally-creates-a-new-blue-then-what">accidental creation of YInMn Blue</a></li>
  <li>The One True Lens, <a href="https://www.sony.ca/en/electronics/camera-lenses/sel35f18">the F1.8 normal prime</a></li>
</ul>

Ô Canada is bananas, scientific progress used to be bananas, and the farming of bananas is itself bananas. O Canada in English and French Banana fungus arrives in Colombia Yes, We Have No Bananas McCormicks Marshmallow Bananas Patrick Collison on EconTalk, on the pace of science The accidental creation of YInMn Blue The One True Lens, the F1.8 normal prime

<p>Ô Canada is bananas, scientific progress used to be bananas, and the farming of bananas is itself bananas.</p>

<ul>
  <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O_Canada#Lyrics" rel="noopener noreferrer">O Canada in English and French</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/2019/08/banana-fungus-latin-america-threatening-future/" rel="noopener noreferrer">Banana fungus arrives in Colombia</a>
    <ul>
      <li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ispyUzpJlWU" rel="noopener noreferrer">Yes, We Have No Bananas</a></li>
      <li><a href="https://candyfunhouse.ca/products/mccormicks-marshmallow-bananas" rel="noopener noreferrer">McCormicks Marshmallow Bananas</a></li>
    </ul>
  </li>
  <li><a href="http://www.econtalk.org/patrick-collison-on-innovation-and-scientific-progress/" rel="noopener noreferrer">Patrick Collison on EconTalk</a>, on the pace of science</li>
  <li>The <a href="https://www.npr.org/2016/07/16/485696248/a-chemist-accidentally-creates-a-new-blue-then-what" rel="noopener noreferrer">accidental creation of YInMn Blue</a></li>
  <li>The One True Lens, <a href="https://www.sony.ca/en/electronics/camera-lenses/sel35f18" rel="noopener noreferrer">the F1.8 normal prime</a></li>
</ul>

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