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THE HEALTHIEST PART OF THE FRUIT

Tuesday, March 26, 2024

In today’s newsletter, we keep the best parts of our veggies and fruit, ask how much better synthetic diamonds are for the environment … and discover whether AI can save birds. Plus, marijuana update; the tomb of Jesus?

An overhead view of hands peeling a potato over a cutting board covered with various vegetables

PHOTOGRAPH BY ANDREA FRAZZETTA, NAT GEO IMAGE COLLECTION

Apples, peaches, pomegranates, and carrots. If you’re putting their peels in the trash bin, you are missing out on the healthiest part of fruits and veggies (above).

In fact, manufacturers are grinding up some of these antioxidant peels and putting them in bread and biscuits. What other peels should you eat?

AND WHICH PEELS
SHOULD YOU AVOID?

STORIES WE’RE FOLLOWING

A synthetic diamond reflects rainbow shine on a black background.

PHOTOGRAPH BY DAVIDE MONTELEONE, NAT GEO IMAGE COLLECTION

Diamonds have a competitor free of the taint of conflict zones: Synthetic diamonds (above). Are they really better?

Do you smoke weed recreationally? Here’s what experts want you to know.

Is this really the tomb of Jesus?

At some point relatively soon, Santorini’s volcano will erupt—what does this mean?

What do you do if a mountain lion (or any other wild animal) attacks you? Here’s the answer. (Free article)

This brilliant philosopher was murdered by a mob. But there's much more to her story.

What is causing these fish off of Florida’s coast to keep spinning in circles? (Free article)

Is this the largest volcano in our solar system?

Flashback: Francis Scott Key, Baltimore, and the origin of the U.S. National Anthem

WHAT IN THE WORLD?

A close up view of a bird, a large patch of blue fills its neck and chest with small patches of orange, gray, and white.

PHOTOGRAPH BY KRISTAPS SOKOLOVSKIS, NAT GEO IMAGE COLLECTION

Can AI identify bird calls? The BirdNet app can identify more than 3,000 bird calls by sound alone—and generates reliable scientific data that may make it easier for people to contribute citizen-science data on birds like the bluethroat (pictured above) by simply recording sounds. But how reliable can the technology be?

LAST GLIMPSE

A horseshoe crab swimming along the sea floor, turning over muddy sediment.

PHOTOGRAPH BY LAURENT BALLESTA, NAT GEO IMAGE COLLECTION

Exactly how old are these creatures? Known as “living fossils,” organisms that live among us today are direct descendants of their fossilized ancestors, often being nearly identical to their prehistoric counterparts. Organisms like the horseshoe crab (pictured above) can be classified as living fossils, but what does that actually mean? Are they really prehistoric?

THE TEST OF TIME

Related: How did life on Earth even begin? Here are 3 popular theories.

Today’s soundtrack: Black Diamond Bay, Bob Dylan (feat. Emmylou Harris)

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