The world's most popular fruit is under siege by a host of maladies. It would be easy to say this is just nature at work, but in fact, what's behind the banana crisis is human nature. The fruit, which tens of millions depend on as their primary source of nutrition, is sick thanks to an ever-growing confluence of biology, politics, culture, and history, each element feeding and amplifying the other. Dan Koeppel, journalist, writer, and author of Banana: The Fate of the Fruit that Changed the World, will talk about the ubiquitous banana—its glorious history, its human-engineered modern crisis, and why its story should be a rallying cry for taking a multidisciplinary, multifaceted approach to nearly everything we experience in our modern life.