During the unfolding of the story, we discover that Stephen Graham's enigmatic leader, Elias Mannix, has created a time-travelling loop that spans over 150 years. Forget occupying your kid with a book or screen. There is no better juvenile distraction than playing with your weenus. The extra skin on your elbow, known scientifically as olecranal skin or colloquially at the weenus, is basically nature’s Silly Puddy because there are fewer sensory neurons located there. That means you can keep kneading it all day long, and as hard as you want. That’s not to say that you can’t injure your elbow in other ways like playing tennis or overdoing it at the gym, but treating your extra skin like a stress ball is fair game. 3. Your Brain Is Fat As of right now, there are 21 known species of human, and the Homo longi was uncovered as recently as 2018. Scientists have also discovered hybrids of some human species, such as a girl with a Neanderthal mother and Denisovan father known as Denny. In case it’s not clear what species your screaming toddler is, they’re a Homo sapien, allegedly. 25. The Brain Can Survive After Death for Longer Than You Think Elias told Whiteman to stow it away for DS Hasan (Amaka Okafor) to find in the future, adding that if his son finds it, he'll destroy it.

The average person has about 250 hairs per eyebrow. Eyebrow hairs have a lifespan of about 4 months. [10] Of course, Johnson" indeed. I'll politely point out that all the listed masters of "the eternal knowledge" are, definitely coincidentally, British, but I'll move on to the topic of Samuel Johnson. Theroux - no, I mean Dr. Slopen - is one of the most brazen fanboys I've ever seen, and his jarring references to Johnson do nothing but add to Dr. Slopen's elitism while breaking the flow of the story. Here's the passage that immediately follows "of course, Johnson": Yup, 600! There are three types of muscle in the human body - skeletal, smooth and cardiac. Skeletal are the muscles that help you move and holds your skeleton together. Smooth muscle is found around your organs, where it moves them when the brain once. Cardiac muscles are muscles related to the heart - they keep your blood pumping and are involuntary (they work without you making them). 19. You Can't Breathe and Swallow at the Same Time Told through a combination of written forms including a psychiatrist’s case notes and the memoir of one of her patients, Strange Bodies explores some expansive themes, including identity, our thirst for immortality, scientific ethics and what really makes us the people we are. Your spine is important for lots of things - for one thing, you couldn't stand up without it! But one of it's most important functions is the spinal cord, your nervous systems way of travelling around the body. Your spinal cord is what links your brain to all the nerve centres in the body, and the neurons that carry messages along it are like tiny cars, full of information! 18. There Are 600 Muscles In The Human Body

However excessive the above-quoted philosophical musings sound, they undoubtedly reveal a mind that's capable of sharp observations on the general human experience. And yet, when it comes to vulnerable, if not painful moments for Nicholas Slopen himself, this is how Theroux explores his character:

The human body is amazing - so amazing that it doesn't even need to be fully there to function! Everyone is usually born with 2 kidneys, but if one gets ill, it can be removed without doing much to the way your body functions. That's why people can donate a kidney to someone in need and still be fine! Your kidneys are really important for filtering bad stuff out of your system, so it's vital we've all got at least one good one! 12. You DON'T Lose The Most Body Heat From Your Head Ultimate Weird but True: 2. National Geographic Kids. Washington D.C.: National Geographic Society. As the viewer, I hate it when you get this amazing thing. And at the end it's like, 'Duh, duh, duh', and you're like 'Right so I've got to wait a year and a half'."To me, Johnson's recognition of that ["reality" is merely a consensus] is part of his acute modernity as a moralist. I think he saw the relation between individual and collective delusion: the threat of madness to the human mind and the body politic. He knew that it was a small step from religious mania to religious wars. Madness is a part of that turn away from the real that Johnson was so vigilant in confronting wherever he found it - not because of his confidence in reason, but because he knew from his own experience how fragile the rule of reason is. Dr Slopen’s story begins when he is asked to use his expertise to authenticate some letters apparently written by Samuel Johnson. He is entirely convinced by the wording and content that these letters can only be genuine, but they are written on paper that wouldn’t have been available to Johnson. From this beginning, the author takes us on an investigation into identity, individuality and authenticity that is entertaining and unsettling in equal measure. Theroux weaves notions of psychiatry, philosophy, science and politics into a story where the human motivations become scarily believable even while the central point remains deliberately incredible. A story of mad science turned to evil purpose, the age-old search for immortality, man’s inhumanity to man, but at its heart this is a search for a definition of humanity. This is a perfunctory and dour thriller that attempts to update the Frankenstein story, with mixed results. The ending is elegant and rather sad, but is a case of too little, too late. The big problem here is that the main protagonist, Nicholas, is so unlikeable that not even his doppelganger likes himself; which poses a bit of a problem for the reader. Without knowing the answers to these questions, we predicted that the second object would arrive within a year or two, based on the estimate that there must be about one body like ‘Oumuamua per 10 cubic AU. To our delight, two years after ‘Oumuamua, Ukrainian amateur astronomer Gennadiy Borisov discovered C/2019 Q4 using a homemade telescope; it was soon renamed 2I/Borisov—the second interstellar object. It has an orbit even more extreme than that of ‘Oumuamua, but it appears to be a rather ordinary comet. Measurements from the Hubble Space Telescope showed that its nucleus is larger than ‘Oumuamua, with a radius between 0.2 and 0.5 kilometer. In contrast to ‘Oumuamua, 2I/Borisov displays no extreme light curve, and its nongravitational motion is simply a consequence of asymmetric outgassing as ice comes off its surface, just as in solar system comets. In March 2020 it briefly flared in brightness and then took on a doubled appearance as a small piece of the nucleus detached, something commonly observed with solar system comets. In other words, this body is pretty much exactly what we would have expected an interstellar object to be like.