A short history of nearly everything.

I'm currently reading a book called 'A Short History of Nearly Everything', which is literally a quickly condensed book that outlines what is in a handful of science textbooks. Basically think of everything you had to ready throughout highschool science put into one book that is made easy to read, add a bit of humorous writing and some indepth 'behind the theories' study and you get this book. I would totally recommend this to anyone who has an interest in science, history, space, living, etc.
I personally liked science in school but I'm learning more from this one book than all the classes combined. Right now I'm into a chapter about Einstein's Theory of Relativity. Its seriously mind-numbing, but in a good way.
Here's a part that I though was just amazing to think about:

"You may not feel outstandingly robust, but if you're an average-sized adult you will contain within your modest frame no less than 7 x 10¹⁸ joules of potential energy - enough to explode with the force of thirty very large hydrogen bombs, assuming you knew how to liberate it and really wished to make a point. Everything has this kind of energy trapped within it. We're just not very good at getting it out. Even a uranium bomb - the most energetic thing we have produced yet - releases less than 1 percent of the energy it could release if only we were more cunning."

To me that is just astounding to imagine.