Carpe Diem

It's always a fun endeavour to speculate on how life can be experienced more richly, and the New Scientist has canvassed the opinion of well-known scientist's to compile a new book: 100 Things To Do Before You Die.

A selection:

• see Galileo's middle finger (preserved in Florence)
• joining the 300 Club at the South Pole (they take a sauna to 200 degrees Fahrenheit, then run naked to the pole in minus 100 F)
• learn Choctaw, a language with two past tenses - one for giving information which is definitely true, the other for passing on material taken without checking from someone else
• swim in a bioluminescent lake
• achieve multiple orgasm
• assisting at the birth of an animal
• solve a mathematical puzzle
  
• boil an egg with a mobile phone
• measure the speed of light with chocolate in a microwave
• visit Shark Bay in Western Australia
• scour the night sky for comets
• let a dung beetle roll away your faeces
• inhale helium and start singing

and after you've gone, let your legacy remain:

• leaving your body for use in car crash research
• become a diamond - a company in Chicago will converted your ashes into a one carat gem
• rot in a field and let forensic scientists practice on you

          (most of those have come from The Guardian)

and i'll recommend:

• go to a Merseyside Derby
• top Uluru
• complete a voluntary transaction in a Communist regime
• appear in a Shakespeare play on the London stage...