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The fifteen-year-old rolled her eyes, sighed, and said:

"I wish I were like other kids and had normal parents!

This is one of my favorite Fun Facts:

Harlow Shapely's quote has entered the culture - that "We are stardust, we are golden" as Joni Mitchell/CSN paraphrased it -- that every single heavy atom in us had to have been cooked up in the heart of an earlier generation of star.

Well, I've run across a factoid that's even neater. From Energies by ( Read more... )