Joe and the Black Corn

A parable of plagues, pandemics and proportions

Mark Shrime, MD, PhD
Geek Culture
Published in
5 min readJan 14

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One day, a corn farmer noticed that some of his corn had turned black. It wasn’t a good black, either, like Aztec corn or huitlacoche.

Aztec black corn. Joe’s corn was nothing like this

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Mark Shrime, MD, PhD
Geek Culture

Author, SOLVING FOR WHY | Global surgeon | Decision analyst | Climber | 3x American Ninja Warrior Competitor