Hysteresis Memes

Someone actually electroded a banana skin to measure its hysteresis loop. Peer review has officially slipped on a peel! This is what happens when physicists run out of grant money but still have a bunch of silver paste lying around. The scientific equivalent of "will it blend?" except it's "will it conduct electricity in a memory-dependent way?" Spoiler alert: your fruit salad is not a suitable replacement for computer memory, no matter how desperate your research gets.