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The Science Behind You
Every fact on this site is backed by real research. Your heartbeats, your breaths, your journey through space, all explained.
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How Many Times Has My Heart Beaten?
Your heart beats about 100,000 times per day: roughly 70 times a minute, every minute, without stopping. Here’s the science, the sources, and why it matters more than you think.
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How Far Has Earth Carried Me Through Space?
Earth orbits the sun at 107,226 km/h. You’ve never been still for a single second of your life. The numbers are staggering.
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The Iron in Your Blood Came From a Star
This isn’t poetry. It’s astrophysics. Every iron atom in your hemoglobin was forged in the violent death of a star, billions of years before Earth existed.
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Is the Physicist’s Eulogy True? The Science, Line by Line
Aaron Freeman’s famous funeral reading says your energy never leaves the world. We checked the physics line by line. It holds up, and in one place it undersells the truth by a factor of hundreds of billions.
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Where Do Our Atoms Go When We Die?
Every atom that made someone is still here. Within hours, years and centuries, they return to the air, the water and the soil, and become part of the living world again.
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Science and Stardust Readings for a Non-Religious Funeral
Four original readings about stardust, atoms and light, free to read, print and adapt at any service, plus a classic Whitman poem and short lines from scientists.
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Their Birthday, Without Them: Gentle Ways to Mark the Day
The first birthday after someone dies can be one of the hardest days. There is no right way to spend it, only gentler and harder ones, and you get to choose.
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How Many Times Has My Heart Beaten?
Your heart beats about 100,000 times per day: roughly 70 times a minute, every minute, without stopping. Here’s the science, the sources, and why it matters more than you think.
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How Far Has Earth Carried Me Through Space?
Earth orbits the sun at 107,226 km/h. You’ve never been still for a single second of your life. The numbers are staggering.
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The Iron in Your Blood Came From a Star
This isn’t poetry. It’s astrophysics. Every iron atom in your hemoglobin was forged in the violent death of a star, billions of years before Earth existed.
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Your Tears and the Ancient Ocean
Your tears taste of the sea for a reason. The real story of the salt inside you is stranger, and better, than the popular myth.
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Your Body Creates 3.8 Million Cells Per Second
According to research published in Nature Medicine, your body produces roughly 3.8 million new cells every second. Your biology refuses to give up on you.
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How Many Breaths Have I Taken in My Life?
You take about 20,000 breaths per day without thinking about it. Every single one kept you alive. Here’s the science and the staggering number.
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Are We Really Made of Stardust? The Science Explained
Almost all of your body’s mass was made inside stars that died billions of years ago. This is not poetry. It’s peer-reviewed astrophysics.
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How Many Times Have I Blinked in My Life?
You blink about 17,000 times per day. It’s one of the most frequent things your body does, and you almost never notice.
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How Much of Your Life Is Spent Sleeping?
You’ll spend roughly a third of your life asleep. That’s not wasted time. It’s when your body does its most extraordinary work.
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How Many People Share My Birthday?
Hundreds of thousands of people are born every day. You share your birthday with hundreds of thousands of people: your birthday cohort.
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How Many Full Moons Since I Was Born?
A full moon rises every 29.53 days. Since you were born, hundreds of them have lit up your sky, whether you noticed or not.
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How Many Sunrises Have I Seen?
Every single day of your life, the sun has risen. You’ve lived through thousands of dawns, and each one is a small astronomical miracle.
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How Much Water Have I Consumed in My Lifetime?
You drink roughly 2 litres of water every day. Over your lifetime, that’s enough to fill a swimming pool, and every drop became part of you.
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How Old Am I in Days, Hours, and Seconds?
Your age isn’t just a number of years. It’s millions of minutes and billions of seconds, each one a moment you were alive.
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What Happens in Your Body Every Second?
Every single second, your body creates millions of cells, beats your heart, processes oxygen, and fires billions of neural signals. You are a universe.
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