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How Your Memory Works and Sometimes Doesn’t & What Humans Are Made Of

Something You Should Know

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The Mehtra and Einstein's Theory of the Big Bang

In the 1920s, we thought that the universe was static. It took a Catholic priest to convince Albert Einstein of the implications of his own theory. Lin Margulis changed the way we think about how complex life on Earth evolved. We have an average of 2,000 mitochondria in our cells and if you were to lay out all the mitochondria in your body, they would cover two basketball courts.

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