Ahh science! What would we be without you.

I have this ongoing fascination with reading science articles. I often understand little about the subject  and retain even less of the material than I started with. Up to 10 minutes after reading an article I am fairly certain that I will retain about -1% of the content; not 1% of the words, like ‘the’ and ‘a’, but 1% less than I started with; hence the negative (-).