Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks cooking s'mores with marshmallows over a burning circuit board.

Dr. Don - risky ☣️ Professor Ben - risky ☣️

• xkcd: Toasting Marshmallows
• 3270: Toasting Marshmallows - explain xkcd
• 374. Eating Meat of a Properly Cooked (160 °F) Rabid Animal — Risky or Not?
• Occupational health hazards related to informal recycling of E-waste in India: An overview - PMC
• The Hidden Threat: Unmasking the Environmental Hazards of E-waste | Landbell Canada
• Heterocyclic Aromatic Amines in Cooked Meat Products: Causes, Formation, Occurrence, and Risk Assessment - Gibis - 2016 - Comprehensive Reviews in Food Science and Food Safety - Wiley Online Library
• Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAHs) in Grilled Marshmallows - PMC
• Cancer - YouTube
• xkcd: Toasting Marshmallows
• 365. Roadside Rúgbrauð — Risky or Not?
• 574 Want some s'more? The hidden risks of marshmallows - PMC

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks from not breaking apart iceberg lettuce to wash every leaf.

Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼 Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼

• Butter Lettuce | What is Butter Lettuce? | Nutrition Info & Pictures
• Healthier eating, better tracking results in more produce-related foodborne illness cases | CAES Field Report
• Tossing salads - UGA Today
• Processing may spread E. coli - Los Angeles Times

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks from eating boiled peanuts left in a hot car for two days

Dr. Don - risky ☣️ Professor Ben - risky ☣️

• Best in Show (4/11) Movie CLIP - Naming Nuts (2000) HD - YouTube
• Classic Boiled Peanuts Recipe
• Peanut and peanut products: A food safety perspective - ScienceDirect
• Contamination of Nuts/Nut Butters | Food Safety
• Boiled peanuts culprit of salmonella outbreak | Salmonella Blog
• Growth of Bacillus cereus in Media Containing Plant Seed Materials and Ingredients Used in Chinese Cookery | Journal of Applied Microbiology | Oxford Academic
• Peanuts and Coke - Wikipedia

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks associated with butchering a legally hunted bear in a communal residence hall kitchen.

Dr. Don - risky ☣️ Professor Ben - risky ☣️

• Land-Grant University FAQ - APLU
• (14) Post by @pkpd-babe.bsky.social — Bluesky
• University Prohibits Processing Wild Animals in Communal Kitchens After Bear Skinning Uproar - The Cornell Daily Sun
• Cornell Students Skin Bear in Ganędagǫ: Hall Communal Kitchen, No Charges Filed - The Cornell Daily Sun
• The Cornell Bear Skinner Speaks Out | The MeatEater Podcast Ep. 770 - YouTube
• Ganędagǫ: Hall | Student & Campus Life | Cornell University
• Ganędagǫ: Hall - Google Maps
• Meat sources of infection for outbreaks of human trichinellosis - ScienceDirect
• Eurosurveillance | Outbreak of trichinellosis due to consumption of bear meat from Canada, France, September 2005
• Occurrence of Trichinella spp. infestations in black bears in Quebec, Canada - Simon Krückemeier, Christopher Fernandez-Prada, Marie-Odile Benoit-Biancamano, 2026
• "Letterkenny" Les Hiques (TV Episode 2017) - IMDb
• Goat Slaughtered in China Grove Captain's Galley Possible Source of E. coli | Marler Blog
• Escherichia coli isolated from feces of brown bears (Ursus arctos) have a lower prevalence of human extraintestinal pathogenic E. coli virulence-associated genes - PMC
• New-to-U.S. antibiotic-resistant Salmonella found in bear | Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine
• Ontario Academic Credit - Wikipedia
• hockey - Risky or Not?
• Lambton Hall | University of Guelph
• Cuyahoga Valley National Park (U.S. National Park Service)
• Lifes Rich Pageant - Wikipedia
• Cuyahoga (song) - Wikipedia

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks from drinking a really old bottle of Guinness found in a shipwreck.

Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼 Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼

• Alec Guinness - Wikipedia
• Divers recover a bottle of Guinness from a 162-year-old shipwreck - The Washington Post
• Verstrepen Lab - Group leader

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks from eating brown rice held out of temperature control for about five hours.

Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼 Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼

• A response surface model to describe the effect of temperature and pH on the growth of Bacillus cereus in cooked rice - PubMed
• Model Bacillus Growth
• Predictive model for growth of Bacillus cereus during cooling of cooked rice - ScienceDirect
• Abhinav Mishra - People | Food Science & Technology

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks for eating an out of date discounted snack food purchased at a farmers market.

Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼 Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼

• Pop'ums Jalapeño Jack | Snack Factory®
• Are stores allowed to sell expired food products? | Consumer Ed, brought to you by the Georgia Attorney General's Consumer Protection Division
• Food Safety at Farmers' Markets | Agriculture and Markets
• Walmart Shares Slump on Weakest Sales Growth in Over Six Years - WSJ

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks from eating corn chowder stored in the refrigerator for a week.

Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼 Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼

• The Best Corn Chowder Recipe
• ComBase

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks from taking a bath at Ben's house when the water is very dirty.

Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼 Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼

• Hydrant Flushing
• Aqua North Carolina | Aqua

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks from vaccines, after Don concocts a bizarre red thread conspiracy theory because he really just wants to talk about his poor little sick doggo.

Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼 Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼

• Addison's disease - Symptoms and causes - Mayo Clinic
• Addison's Disease in Dogs | VCA Animal Hospitals
• Addison's disease | Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine
• Lab Leak Groundhog Day: COVID … - Decoding the Gurus - Apple Podcasts

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks from eating McDonald's ranch dressing found on the side of the road in northern Minnesota in the summer.

Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼 Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼

• Bike Tour Map
• Food Safety Talk 255: Crunchy Granola Hippie Town — Food Safety Talk
• 929. Car Ranch — Risky or Not?
• 87. 27 Lbs of Unrefrigerated Feta Cheese — Risky or Not?
• Models for the Inactivation of Foodborne Pathogens in Salad Dressing from Challenge Studies - ScienceDirect
• Outbreak of campylobacter enteritis in a residential school associated with bird pecked bottle tops - PubMed