Yo, Nick: I have been reading the July/August issue of SEED, which was

passed to me by someone explaining that it is the cool science magazine.

Not bad, I must say. I did not know, for example, until reading it, that

bananas–bananas!–have not had sex for 10,000 years. Talk about bed death!

(Though this is nothing by comparison with the bdelloid rotifers, which seem

not to have had any sex since the Upper Eocene epoch, 40 million years ago.)