The bombing of Nagasaki, the explosion of the Hindenburg, and the Challenger disaster have all been immortalized into smoke-filled photography. Artist Brock Davis has reproduced those iconic explosions in an unlikely medium: cauliflower. More »
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History’s most famous explosions, reproduced in cauliflower
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A US government program secretly injected people with plutonium
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