Ka-boom!

What's the brightest light on Earth, the coldest place in the universe, the most poisonous substance in nature? In an unabashed celebration of the exceptional, David Darling takes a rollicking journey through the universe's weirdest and most wonderful extremes. From the treetop home of the notoriously sluggish sloth, to the very edges of the known universe, Darling searches through space and time for nature and technology's greatest oddities.