Hello, Deadpool here. We're very excited to be joining you, but we should set the table correctly.

We're mostly going to make enemies with Disney and make a lot of jokes at Hughes' expense.

Come again.

So sit back, relax, while we travel to a place where grown men and women walk around in tights and act like it's not a giant cultural cry for help.

Because this is cinema. Shaggy! Oh my God! This is Cinema Cinema.

Cinema. Shut God.

Oh my God.

Marvel Studios Deadpool in Wolverine in Cinemas Thursday, July 25th.

This is Scientific Americans, 60 Second Science. I'm Steve Mursky. Got a minute?

A recent headline on the website The Verge.com got a lot of attention on social media because each new phrase seemed to take the message in an unexpected direction.

The headline read,

US government plans to use drones to fire vaccine-laced M&M's near endangered ferrets.

Some background. Black-footed ferrets have been on the endangered species list since 1967.

Only about 300 were known to be alive in the wild at the end of 2015.

They tend to live in the Great Plains in the West because they love to eat prairie dogs which tend to live in the Great Plains in the West.

Unfortunately prairie dogs often harbor fleas and fleas can carry the plague.

Yep, that plague, the so-called black death that killed millions in Europe in the 14th century.

So ferrets suffer when fleas cause a plague outbreak in prairie dogs, either because the ferrets

also catch the disease or because the prairie dogs die and the ferrets go hungry.

Officials have tried vaccinating individual ferrets, and they've tried treating prairie dog burrows with flea killer,

but neither method is particularly efficient.

And so the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is preparing a study for September

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