Listening to 12 minutes of Neil deGrasse Tyson on a Sunday morning is at once more enlightening and more inspiring than anything I ever heard under the steeple:

Here’s how our composition breaks down compared with the rest of the universe:

Top five most populous elements in human beings (helium inert):

1. Hydrogen

2. Oxygen

3. Carbon

4. Nitrogen

Top five most populous elements in the cosmos:

1. Hydrogen

2. Helium

3. Oxygen

4. Carbon

5. Nitrogen