I learned to read very young as well, seeing as there wasn't much else to do where we lived.
I contracted pneumonia as a two-month old, and my left lung suffered a partial collapse. For about twenty years afterwards, when I became fatigued I'd feel a very sharp and uncomfortable ache in my chest near the area where it collapsed.
My knees can hyper-extend about two inches. This has not proven to be particularly useful, and was the cause of some very painful episodes during my early teens-- I would be running, and upon planting one of my feet the knee would bend the wrong way and absorb my full weight and momentum a split-second afterwards. It hurt like a motherfucker. Thankfully, there was no lasting damage.
And finally... I didn't suffer a broken bone until I was 40 years old, when I broke a small bone in my left wrist... which took 23 weeks to heal.
I contracted pneumonia as a two-month old, and my left lung suffered a partial collapse. For about twenty years afterwards, when I became fatigued I'd feel a very sharp and uncomfortable ache in my chest near the area where it collapsed.
My knees can hyper-extend about two inches. This has not proven to be particularly useful, and was the cause of some very painful episodes during my early teens-- I would be running, and upon planting one of my feet the knee would bend the wrong way and absorb my full weight and momentum a split-second afterwards. It hurt like a motherfucker. Thankfully, there was no lasting damage.
And finally... I didn't suffer a broken bone until I was 40 years old, when I broke a small bone in my left wrist... which took 23 weeks to heal.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould
