Extreme Abilities: Amazing Human Feats and the Simple Science Behind Them

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Introduction TAKING IT to the MAX Over 200 bones About 640 muscles Roughly 86 billion brain cells Your body is complicated sophisticated and fascinating Everything you do from lifting a spoonful of cereal to your mouth to writing a test requires many body parts to communicate and coordinate For your entire life your body has been achieving wondrous things You began balancing on two feet and then maybe on two wheels You started counting blocks and then adding numbers Every day your body is using all those parts from bones to brain while adapting and learning new skills And sometimes just sometimes the skills go beyond the norm In your case maybe you can cross your eyes or curl your tongue Maybe you’re fantastic at cartwheeling or Hula-Hooping Maybe you can easily remember tons of weird facts 4