Before you die: 100 things you simply must do
Turn yourself into a diamond: tips from science on a good life, and death
Martin Wainwright
Monday November 29, 2004
The Guardian
A thinktank of British scientists has come up with a new way of quickening
the national intellect - a brain-taxing spin on the old formula of 100
things to do before you die.
The group, which includes the evolutionary biologist, Richard Dawkins,
astronomer Sir Patrick Moore, neuroscientist Susan Greenfield and the
inventor James Dyson, urges us all to take samples of our own DNA,
measure the speed of light with chocolate, and solve the mathematical
mystery of the number 137.
The list, compiled by New Scientist magazine, suggests booking to see
Galileo's middle finger (preserved in Florence) or ordering liquid
nitrogen to make the "world's smoothest ice-cream" at home.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,1361676,00.html
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