Your Salad Is Trying To Kill You

Plants are the most important source of nutrients for pretty much all of Earth’s animals, and many of the planet’s bacteria and fungi too. Humans like them so much that we line them up in salad bars so we can feast upon their crunchy cronch by the plate full.

But plants don’t always want to be eaten, ya know? Here’s a look at some of our favorite plant flavors and how they are actually a form of chemical warfare.

Adam Savage Incognito at Comic-Con 2015

Every year, Adam Savage walks the floor of Comic-Con incognito, hidden in plain sight. This year, he’s mixing things up with a joint-incognito walk with special guest Astronaut Chris Hadfield! Appropriately, Adam and Commander Hadfield cosplay as 2001: A Space Odyssey astronauts, complete with working active water-cooling systems in their spacesuits. And on the show floor, they unexpectedly run into a mutual friend…