This week on Extra Credit, we have an update on Rex Heuermann as sentencing finally arrives. Dina also brings a story that is guaranteed to leave your jaw on the floor and a shudder up your spine, along with a few others, beginning with an incident at an Oklahoma Arby's that proves truth really is stranger than fiction. Meanwhile, Charlotte heads into science corner with news that the Large Hadron Collider is shutting down, but only so scientists can make it even more powerful. We also celebrate one of science's bravest, or perhaps most questionable, heroes: the man who willingly allowed himself to be stung by insects in the name of research, creating a pain scale that scientists still use today.

Finally, our Strange and Unusual Death this week is a particularly upsetting one that may have you reconsidering whether bungee jumping belongs on ...