Love that NYT dryness sometimes

(It is not known whether snakes get heart disease.)

Also to his credit, Lawrence K. Altman resists for eight whole paragraphs before succumbing to temptation in the ninth.

Who knows whether the research described will amount to yet another nostrum that people can abuse as part of a healthy diet; the point is, the article is interesting, the accompanying photograph is way cool …

… and the video I went and found for you (from the photo credit) will feed your inner eight-year-old boy like nobody's business.

Definitely go full screen on that bad boy.