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Nerds and Words: Week 49

Discover the lethal Chernobyl reactor elephant's foot that could kill in seconds. Explore this chilling tale of nuclear disaster.

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I have dug through the Internet this week and uncovered all this geeky goodness. You can find the thousands of links from previous weeks here.

I have marked my favorite links with a. Enjoy.

Science to Read, WatchThere is an elephant's foot underneath a failed Chernobyl reactor

that could kill you in 300 seconds "We can safely assume [decapitation by parasitic fly

] is relatively distressing for the ant" Need to image a heart better? Inject it with some metal

, maybe "As you can see, skeleton shrimp have taken the basic amphipod body plan and dialed all the features to 'scary'"

"Creationists reconstruct old stories from a book. Animals should not suffer and die for their design sins

" MIT scientists: Toughest tongue twister ever is "pad kid poured curd pulled cod

" ∞ How the "Crazy Ant Strike Team" used cat food and neurotoxin to wipe ...

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