Homo homini homo est
Superhuman: Life at the Extremes of Our Capacity Dr. Rowan Hooper Slavisa Pajkic can turn his body into a conductor, an insulator, a heater or an accumulator of electricity, depending on what he wants to be. He has set a Guinness World Record by allowing enough electricity to pass through his body for 1 minute 37 seconds to heat water to boiling point (97 degrees Celsius). Lewis Pugh swam 20 minutes across the entire North Pole in -1.7 C water wearing nothing but his Speedos. During the swim, the temperature of his muscles dropped to 30 C. Any ordinary human being would die of hypothermia within minutes in such conditions. When I bought the Superhuman book, I half expected it to be a map of the extremes of human abilities. In a way, that's exactly what it is, but Dr Hooper has set himself a much more human goal and narrowed the scope of the book accordingly. While there are numerous people introduced throughout the book, whose abilities far surpass ordinary human capacity