Footnotes: What's Worse for Humanity, Planet-Melting Supernovas or Paula Deen?

It’s fight night (or day, depending on when you watch) on Footnotes, with Paula Deen and the Pied Piper in one corner, and planet-melting supernovas in the other. Who will prove to be more dangerous for humanity?
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Then we head out into space to answer an age-old question: What is more likely to kill you, a massive supernova explosion or eating a teaspoon of Paula Deen’s food? (Side project for the adventurous: What contains more energy, a teaspoon of Paula Deen’s food or an equal amount of a star’s plasma?)

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