The world has been demanding - nay, crying out - for a remake of Dark Knight Rises remake starring a banana as Bane and a bottle of shampoo as Batman. But only Matt Muholland had the skills, the vision, and the spare banana and shampoo needed to turn this dream into a reality. People throw the word "hero" around a…

Every hear of (or see) someone smoking a banana peel to get high? Neither have I. However, the smoking of banana peels has a history dating to the late 1960s in the United States and Canada, with smokers allegedly receiving a hallucinogenic trip.

Necrotizing fasciitis-infected bananas have been the boogeyman of potassium lovers and people who enjoy checking their email unmolested by chain letters for over a decade. Now, rumors of flesh-eating bananas are resurging in Mozambique, where an email hoax is bedeviling plantain superfans. The email's spurious medical…

• The problem – How to tell if a banana is senescent (old).
• The solution – Apply fractal Fourier analysis to the banana spots.