From Stars to Souls: The Science of What Made You You, with a Dazzling Poem Read by David Byrne

“Look at the clever things we have made out of a few building blocks — O fabulous continuum.”

We are each a chance constellation of elements forged in long-dead stars assembled by gravity, which may be the other word for God — the weakest of the four fundamental forces, yet the great cosmic compactor that made the first atoms cohere into a common center to form the first star: an immense ball of gas, at the core of which was a hydrogen sphere that eventually reached pressures of millions of atm...