James May figures out how to catch speeding bullets in his teeth, why the moon doesn't fall out of the sky, why his cat knows more about terminal velocity than he does, and why a six-tonne chicken can't run.
James May gets the answers on why men don't ask for directions, why a person's memory can be bad, and what love has in common with Class A drugs.
James May finds out what steam does, what is the smartest machine, when humans can move to Mars; who has been building skyscrapers for millions of years and what a football has to do with nanotechnology.
James May asks what E=mc2 actually means, who wanted Einstein for president, and what happened to his brain.
James May reveals how Darwin's famous Theory of Natural Selection explains why humans are all mutants, what war is actually good for, and whether people are hot or not.
James distills chemical secrets, explaining how the world is a laboratory.
James May
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