The world-famous British physicist Stephen Hawking has been hospitalised. As Myers put it, it is "a serious business for a 67 year old man with ALS". But then again, when he was first diagnosed with the illness, he was given two years to live. This was over forty years ago in 1962, so one might say he's a tough cookie. Read 'A Short History of Time' when you have time (because time you're going to need if your school physics and chemistry classes were a long time ago); he writes well and starts from the basics so no worries on that department. You might learn that the assumption of nature being more fantastic when you don't know about it is actually bullocks: it's much more fantastic when you *do* know these things!
(via Pharyngula)
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009/04/20/world/AP-EU-Britain-Hawking.html?_r=2&emc=eta1
