
Solar Skin
by joshua iufer
Nothing but silence. Despite the violent combustion of elements and lethal amounts of radiation, the majority of space is dead quiet. Millions of miles from home sits a glowing ball of lethality, our sun. Without warning, a molten eruption hurls towards our planet intertwined with ultraviolet radiation. At 186,000 miles per second the photons smash into our skin, diving to the lowest layer and bouncing off a small molecule known as cholesterol. SNAP! The transfer of energy breaks a delicate […]
Categories: NUTRITION • Tags: Biology, Philosophy, Solar, Sunlight, Vitamin D