Your privacy risk depends which type of company you’re working with.

What annoys me is the guys working on cultured meat won’t even take my phone calls.

Definitely cooked. At least with eating other species, there’s a chance the microorganisms and parasites in and on them will find the human body hostile. Pretty much by definition, the ones found in and on people can live in and on people—so cannibalism is an invitation to infectious disease.

The human prions—notably the ones responsible for Kuru and Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease—hang out almost entirely in central nervous system tissue. Stick to cooked muscle meat and they won’t be a big issue.

Son of a biochemist. Mom’s the R. Zielinski in all the stuff that came out of Achilles Dugaiczyk’s lab, notably the human genetic sequencing work from before PCR--back when the first step was creating a transgenic organism out of E coli and a man. (Don’t drop it.)

Heavy metal poisoning. He’s old and has a poor diet; he’s full of metals and polychlorinated biphenyls. The chemical hazard suggests alkaline hydrolysis and treatment of the effluent at a wastewater facility, the way we’d dispose of the carcass of a mad dog.

I fed a crop of Ms. Bernot’s photo to http://www.malinc.se/m/ImageFractals.php :

POLL:

I’m not exactly sure how one of the world’s most recognizable figures manages to work with undercover spies overseas without blowing someone’s cover,

. . . but what could possibly be grosser than snail mucus?

Florida has a fever or something. That’s the only rational way to explain the endless fount of weird stories from the state. . .

If their favorite order was a Hot ‘n Spicy McChicken, they’re

Tice’s annual earnings calculation formula is relatively simple: add up all the money you’ve earned in the first quarter of the year and multiply it by four.

Swiftly, dutifully, with the deft obedience of a Scanner’s wife, she wound the Kranching Wire around his head, spirally around his neck and chest.

(A) Gothamist is reporting “...an internal report issued in 2014 by NYPD Chief Surgeon Eli Kleinman found no injuries to Garner’s trachea that would indicate he was choked.”

Designate a day or a meal (give it a catchy name, like “Waste Less Wednesdays”) to make soups or other catchall foods that can use whatever you’ve got hanging around in the fridge.

or GTFO.

Lumpers over here. Splitters over here. On three, FIGHT.

Yeah, that sounded like a suspiciously specific example...

An ominous hot wind and a stomach-churning feeling of vague, overpowering dread?