Friday links

Au Bon Pain is being sued for $2 undecillion (which is a 2 followed by 36 zeros). What if they lose and have to pay? 

The Great Sperm Race: The Most Extreme Race on Earth, Scaled To Human Size (plus bonus Monty Python). Related: Giant Fossilized Sperm is Oldest Ever Found.

Operation Margarine: Tracing the wartime rise of ersatz butter.

Mathematics Of Murder, Autonomous Cars and Robotic Soldiers: Should A Robot Sacrifice Your Life To Save Two?

What it Takes to Cook Some of Literature's Most Famous Meals.

Someone alert the Nobel Prize committee: Iowa Distillery Raising Pigs to Taste Like Whiskey.

ICYMI, Thursday's links are here, and include the reason red M&Ms disappeared for a decade, calculating Star Trek's Tribble problem, pain management via orgasm, and impossible Godzilla anatomy.