BOOKS - Excerpts from The Mad Scientist's Handbook: The Human Recipe

If you wish to make a human being from scratch… Start with enough oxygen to fill a freight container. Then add an amount of hydrogen that fills 4,700 party balloons. Find enough carbon to...-- Read more on ScientificAmerican.co ...

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