This is what I have been thinking about lately:

Necrotizing Fascitis and nuclear transmutations.
This is the story my teacher told us today in Microbiology:
He's from Canada where everybody plays hockey so his friend was at his son's hockey game and while picking up his son's skate, sliced his hand on the blade. He didn't think much of it till the next day he noticed it was swollen so put some anti-biotic ointment on it. The following day it was so swollen and throbbing that he went to the hospital where they told him he had a streptococcos pyogenes infection and they AMPUTATED HIS ARM... but it was too late. The next day he died!
Ok this was my professors personal friend. He died of a tiny cut on his hand!?!?!? Isn't that insane!?!? Do a google image search of this it will blow your mind.
This is one of the milder ones:

And nuclear transmutations... do you realize that scientist can change one element to another by bombarding it with alpha particles... and that they are actually creating new kinds of elements!?!?!? How science fiction / something out of a Dan Brown novel / seemingly contradictory to the laws of thermodynamics is that? I guess I'd heard of it, growing up by Fermi-lab, but seriously Rutherford converted Nitrogen to Oxygen in 1919. That sort of blows my mind.
I used that phrase twice in this post and I feel that it was warranted.

