There are 176068 kg of stuff on the Moon, 22628 kg on Venus and 8403 kg on Mars.

This is not actually science, but, it’s MacGyver! (via scicurious)

- The human brain is so sophisticated it takes nearly 20 years to mature

- In the womb, humans grow 8,000 new brain cells every second

- By the time humans are born they have all the brain cells they will ever need

- The human brain is the “most sophisticated thing” in the known universe

- New-born babies can recognise their mother’s face after just a few hours

 - Babies can see in the womb but only in black and white. However their eyes are sensitive enough to detect the dim light passing through their mother’s belly

 - Humans blink up to 20 times every minute. Each blink lasts around half a second. But add them together, and humans are living in the dark for more than an hour every day

- Each brain cell will make, on average, 10,000 connections with other brain cells

- Learning to balance and co-ordinate your body is so complex the area of the brain devoted to this task contains as many cells as the rest of the brain put together

-  Young divers in Thailand have taught their eyes to focus underwater by making their irises contract rather than dilate. All children can develop this skill if they start at a young enough age

- A short history of nearly everything by Bill Bryson

- Darwin by Adrian Desmond & James Moore 

- DNA: the secret of life by Jim Watson

- Fragile Science: The reality behind the headlines by Robin Baker

- Genome by Matt Ridley

- I wish I’d made you angry earlier by Max Perutz

- Language of the genes by Steve Jones

- Microbes and man by John Postgate

- Oxygen - The molecule that made the world by Nick Lane

- Prometheans in the lab - Chemistry and the meaning of the modern world by Sharon Bertsch McGrayne

- Stories of the Invisible - A guided tour of molecules by Philip Bail

- The beak of the finch by Jonathan Weiner

- The common thread - Science, politics, ethics and the human genome by John Sulston & Georgina Ferry

- The double helix by Jim Watson

- The eighth day of creation by Horace Judson

- The man who mistook his wife for a hat by Oliver Sacks

- The rise and fall of the third chimpanzee by Jared Diamond

- The sciences good study guide by Open University Worldwide

- Wonderful life by Stephen J. Gould

- Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig

Edison “electrocuted an adorable elephant named ‘Topsy’”

Watson is a racist, a sexist, and sometimes even a supporter of eugenetics.

Lavoisier “was a ruthless merchant who didn’t mind making a buck off of poor people.”

Aristotele “may have been more racist than Hitler.”

Geiger was a Nazi.

Franklin “was an insufferable, petty whore of a man whom his peers loathed.”