The Tangents team tackles one of the greatest controversies in science history: are tomatoes fruits?
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[Fact Off]
Thumping watermelons
https://www.ksre.k-state.edu/news/stories/2020/07/how-to-pick-a-ripe-melon.html
https://www.almanac.com/how-tell-if-watermelon-ripe
https://www.bksv.com/en/knowledge/blog/perspectives/ripe-watermelon
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-science-of-a-ripe-watermelon-1498828907
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4325046/
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00779-013-0706-7
Animals eating moldy fruit
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-017-05643-z
[Ask the Science Couch]
Ripening fruit biochemistry
https://kids.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frym.2018.00016
https://academic.oup.com/jxb/article/63/13/4741/484722
https://www.actahort.org/books/463/463_42.htm
[Butt One More Thing]
Medlar fruit
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20210325-the-strange-medieval-fruit-the-world-forgot
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/medlar-fruit-forgotten-butt-shape