Maybe the body finds untapped reserves when it needs to; maybe the fear of dying makes it do extraordinary things. - Simon Mayo

I'm sure 'I used it all, just to be on the safe side' is not the greatest piece of scientific advice out there!

The school had been designated a "Science Academy" and attracted many sponsors: charities, eminent scientists, and a global oil company. The academy logo proclaimed: Together. Inspired. No one seemed quite sure what it meant.

He turned and smiled at his class. "Morning boys, let's begin." His homeroom class had given up pointing out that they were more than fifty percent girls and just accepted that by "boys" he meant everyone. Mr. Watkins had come from an all-boys school in Edinburgh five years earlier and he was clearly not about to change the way he addressed his students.