"We are biology. We are reminded of this at the beginning and the end, at birth and at death. In between we do what we can to forget."
- Mary Roach
"What sort of person experimentally infests a child with maggots? A confident sort, certainly. A maverick. Someone comfortable with the unpretty facts of biology. Someone who is perhaps himself an unpr..."
"US government button specifications run to twenty-two pages. This fact on its own yields a sense of what it is like to design garments for the Army."
"…he was doing a breath hydrogen test. If you know the amount of hydrogen someone is exhaling orally, it's a simple matter to extrapolate the amount they're exhaling rectally. This is because a fixed p..."