<p>• When summer storms hit, beware of your XBOX or Wii—apparently an <a href="http://www.upi.com/Health_News/2009/06/18/Video-games-are-lightning-risk/UPI-33441245378232/" title="">increasing number of people</a> have faced injury while playing hardwired video games indoors when there's lightning outside. • Spoon that irresistible raw cookie dough into your mouth at the risk of kidney failure and bloody diarrhea: Toll House has <a href="http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iBgfgfrP49_41QWDIJBG3damP4ogD98TPOL80" title="">recalled its dough</a> due to possible E. Coli contamination. • Snakes in a station! About <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSTRE55C2BX20090613" title="">400 cobras were expelled</a> from a Sierra Leone police station using attack rifles and power hoses after snakecharmers failed to lure the reptiles from the building. •It's been a rough week for pets: Just ask the the week-old puppy that was <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/5537009/Week-old-puppy-flushed-down-lavatory.html" title="">flushed down the toilet</a>, the cat that was <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/5544879/Cat-shot-50-times-survives.html" title="">shot 50 times</a>, and the kitten that was <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_odd_mailbox_kitten" title="">abandoned in a public mailbox</a> in Boston. Those furballs survived, but the cats and dogs that ate pet food tainted with melamine weren't so lucky. The manufacturing company and its owners <a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31393592/ns/health-pet_health/" title="">pleaded guilty</a> this week to selling the contaminated food. •Remember the <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j50ZssEojtM" title="">rap</a> about the LHC? Now there's <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=677ZmPEFIXE" title="">another</a> one by the same, er, artist, tackling the subject of rare isotopes. Related Content: Discoblog: <a href="http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/wp-admin/Beware%20Playstation-itis%21%20Video%20Gaming%20Results%20in%20Rare,%20Nasty%20Rash" title="">Beware Playstation-itis! Video Gaming Results in Rare, Nasty Rash </a> Discoblog: <a href="/health/air-guitar-hero-helps-amputees-test-out-new-arms" title="">“Air Guitar Hero” Helps Amputees Test Out New Arms </a> Discoblog: <a href="/technology/iphoto-finds-cookie-with-human-personality" title="">iPhoto Finds Cookie With Human Personality </a></p><div class="vert-display-toggle collapsible relative flex flex-col items-center "><div class="vert-unit mt-4 mb-3 top-20"><div ad-type="mobile-desktop" class="ad-wrapper vert min-h-boombox flex items-start justify-center" data-ad-mapping="inline" data-ad-slot="Discover/inline-ad" id="div-inline-ad-0"></div></div><span aria-label="Advertisement" class="text-ad mt-1 text-[11px] uppercase">Advertisement</span></div>

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Weird Science Roundup: The Pet Survival Edition (Plus a Rap about Isotopes)

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• When summer storms hit, beware of your XBOX or Wii—apparently an increasing number of people have faced injury while playing hardwired video games indoors when there's lightning outside. • Spoon that irresistible raw cookie dough into your mouth at the risk of kidney failure and bloody diarrhea: Toll House has recalled its dough due to possible E. Coli contamination. • Snakes in a station! About 400 cobras were expelled from a Sierra Leone police station using attack rifles and power hoses after snakecharmers failed to lure the reptiles from the building. •It's been a rough week for pets: Just ask the the week-old puppy that was flushed down the toilet, the cat that was shot 50 times, and the kitten that was abandoned in a public mailbox in Boston. Those furballs survived, but the cats and dogs that ate pet food tainted with melamine weren't so lucky. The manufacturing company and its owners pleaded guilty this week to selling the contaminated food. •Remember the rap about the LHC? Now there's another one by the same, er, artist, tackling the subject of rare isotopes. Related Content: Discoblog: Beware Playstation-itis! Video Gaming Results in Rare, Nasty Rash Discoblog: “Air Guitar Hero” Helps Amputees Test Out New Arms Discoblog: iPhoto Finds Cookie With Human Personality

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奇妙科学汇总：宠物生存版（以及一首关于同位素的说唱）

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