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The Potato's Mysterious Family Tree Revealed–and It Includes Tomatoes

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-the-potato-got-its-start-nine-million-years-ago-thanks-to-a-tomato/

5•hgv•20h ago

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hgv•20h ago

Original article: https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(25)00736-6

Terr_•19h ago

That surprise connection makes me think of how there are several common vegetables which look rather different, but are all a species of Brassica Oleracea, warped into different cultivars. (Cabbage, Broccoli, Kale, Brussel Sprouts, etc.)

https://www.businessinsider.com/brassica-oleracea-broccoli-k...

That said, the trippy fractals of Romanesco look the best.

dekhn•18h ago

the big difference being, those cultivars are (IIUC) all human created, while this was a long-time-ago evolutionary event.

Suppafly•13h ago

hasn't this been known for a long time?

Changes in diet drove physical evolution in early humans

https://phys.org/news/2025-07-diet-drove-physical-evolution-early.html

1•devilcius•1m ago•0 comments

Full-Stack Web and App Developer – React, Next.js, Node.js, AI – Remote

https://www.syket.io/

1•syketdas•5m ago•0 comments

Amid Air India probe, U.S. FAA and Boeing say fuel switch locks are safe

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/07/14/world/air-india-probe-us-faa-boeing/

1•PaulHoule•7m ago•0 comments

Cloud Drawing Gallery

https://cloudgazing.online/

1•speckx•7m ago•0 comments

GenosDB: Distributed Graph Database with Module Support

https://genosdb.com/genosdb-distributed-graph-database-with-module-support-a71452d0b472

1•estebanrfp•9m ago•1 comments

Boots Theory and Wikipedia

https://reasonableapproximation.net/2025/08/01/boots-theory-and-wikipedia.html

2•paulpauper•10m ago•0 comments

Bill would fine social media companies $5M a day for not fighting 'terrorism'

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/this-bill-would-fine-social-media-companies-5-million-every-day-for-not-fighting-terrorism/ar-AA1Jf7LE

1•heavyset_go•10m ago•0 comments

The Ghost in the Graph: How Individual Beliefs Become Organizational Behavior

https://vasily.cc/blog/the-ghost-in-the-graph-pt1/

1•paulpauper•11m ago•0 comments

List of Defunct Professional Sports Teams

https://funwhileitlasted.net/list-of-defunct-sports-teams/

1•1970-01-01•11m ago•0 comments

Visualizer: Obesity by Country

https://www.exfatloss.com/p/visualizer-obesity-by-country

1•paulpauper•11m ago•0 comments

GenosDB: Distributed Graph-Based Database

https://genosdb.com/genosdb-distributed-graph-based-database-7f03b878507b

2•estebanrfp•11m ago•1 comments

Offspace – A new way to match with people who think like you

https://offspace.app/

1•inang•14m ago•1 comments

Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) in GenosDB

https://genosdb.com/

1•estebanrfp•15m ago•1 comments

Rosetta 2 support discontinuation notice

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/256079635

3•AlphaWeaver•16m ago•0 comments

Ukraine rescues soldier via drone delivery of complete e-bike

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/08/ukraine-rescues-soldier-via-drone-delivery-of-complete-e-bike/

3•zdw•17m ago•0 comments

Biggest Job Revisions Since 2020 Expose Pitfall of Economic Data

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08-01/biggest-job-revisions-since-2020-expose-pitfall-of-economic-data

1•toomuchtodo•17m ago•1 comments

Corporation for Public Broadcasting to Shut Down Operations

https://deadline.com/2025/08/corporation-for-public-broadcasting-shut-down-1236476552/

1•throw0101c•18m ago•0 comments

Proton Authenticator

https://proton.me/authenticator

3•cyberpunk•20m ago•2 comments

Would you pass the world's toughest exam?

https://www.economist.com/interactive/1843/2025/07/24/would-you-pass-the-worlds-toughest-exam

1•pseudolus•20m ago•1 comments

HTTP Methods

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Reference/Methods

2•aanthonymax•20m ago•0 comments

Amp Code Deep Dive

https://elite-ai-assisted-coding.dev/p/amp

2•intellectronica•20m ago•0 comments

Microsoft researchers have revealed the 40 jobs most exposed to AI

https://fortune.com/2025/07/31/microsoft-research-generative-ai-occupational-impact-jobs-most-and-least-likely-to-impact-teaching-office-jobs-college-gen-z-grads/

3•TMWNN•26m ago•0 comments

Self-Hosting AI Models After Claude's Usage Limits

https://steipete.me/posts/2025/self-hosting-ai-models

2•ingve•29m ago•0 comments

Talking robots learn to manage human interruptions

https://hub.jhu.edu/2025/07/30/artificial-intelligence-handles-interruptions/

2•rbanffy•30m ago•0 comments

AI Turns Drone Footage into Disaster Response Maps in Minutes

https://stories.tamu.edu/news/2025/07/28/ai-turns-drone-footage-into-disaster-response-maps-in-minutes/

2•rbanffy•31m ago•0 comments

Researchers Map Where Solar Energy Delivers the Biggest Climate Payoff

https://www.rutgers.edu/news/researchers-map-where-solar-energy-delivers-biggest-climate-payoff

4•rbanffy•31m ago•0 comments

Micro.blog now free for teachers and nurses

https://www.manton.org/2025/08/01/microblog-now-free-for-teachers.html

2•ingve•31m ago•0 comments

Does the Bitter Lesson Have Limits?

https://www.dbreunig.com/2025/08/01/does-the-bitter-lesson-have-limits.html

3•dbreunig•32m ago•0 comments

Phishing campaign detected targeting AMO (addons.mozilla.org)

https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2025/08/01/warning-phishing-campaign-detected/

2•HieronymusBosch•33m ago•0 comments

Palo Alto Networks–CyberArk $25B Deal: My Take on Security Stack Integration

https://guptadeepak.com/palo-alto-networks-cyberark-the-25-billion-deal-reshaping-cybersecurity/

1•guptadeepak•35m ago•1 comments