![]() ![]() We really didn't realize how impermanent we are, and that our bodies are made of remnants of stars and massive explosions in the galaxies. That was one of the biggest surprises for us in this book. ![]() It directly connects us to the universe, rebuilding our bodies over and again over our lifetimes. Iris: Was she ever! Everything we are and everything in the universe and on Earth originated from stardust, and it continually floats through us even today. "We are stardust," Joni Mitchell famously sang in " Woodstock." It turns out she was right, wasn't she? ![]() Talking from their home in Palo Alto, California, they explain how everything in us originated in cosmic explosions billions of years ago, how our bodies are in a constant state of decay and regeneration, and why singer Joni Mitchell was right. What do sunspots have to do with liver spots? How does the big bang connect with cystic fibrosis?Īstrophysicist Karel Schrijver, a senior fellow at the Lockheed Martin Solar and Astrophysics Laboratory, and his wife, Iris Schrijver, professor of pathology at Stanford University, have joined the dots in a new book, Living With the Stars: How the Human Body Is Connected to the Life Cycles of the Earth, the Planets, and the Stars. Astrophysics and medical pathology don't, at first sight, appear to have much in common.
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