The professor laid on a bed of nails and placed a wooden board on top of himself. An assistant placed a cinder block on top of the board and then pounded the block with a mallet. David Wright, a ...

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Next week, Prof. Shaul Hanany will lie on a bed of nails while someone takes a hammer and smashes a cement block on his stomach. But he's not worried. Really. He knows that physics is on his side.