1. You are made of stardust.
2. No. of bacterial cells in you is ten times the number of human cells.
3. The Fourier Transform. Example: Every sound is a sum of pure tones (of single frequencies added).
4. The universe is simply particles and the forces that govern their interactions.
5. Abstract concept of information and concrete concept of energy are fundamentally connected.
6. Organisms are in fact only carriers used by genes to self-perpetuate.
7. An electron in a material is completely delocalized.
8. Virtual particles are in fact as good as real particles. That is, everything is a model.
9. 1 = 0.99999….
10. The clumped distribution of matter in the universe is due to random quantum fluctuations at the Big Bang.
11. Cytochrome-C, an essential complex in the respiration pathway, also triggers cell death, or apoptosis.

Favorite Organisms

• Japanese honeybee
• Marine flatworms – Penis fencing
• Naked-Mole Rat
• Nudibranch – Mollucs that lost their shell, spectacularly colourful.
• Polar bears
• Pufferfish (specifically Tetraodontidae Torquigener)
• Tardigrades
• Wood frog