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It takes two to make a thing go right, or wrong

women powerAt the same time we have Hillary, 4 female astronauts graduating from the NASA space program, Samantha Bee on late night tv,  and actual dialogue about gender gaps in salary and management,  it’s still been a rough start to 2016 for women.   Continue reading It takes two to make a thing go right, or wrong

Chew on this: the curiosities of Mary Roach

courtesy of maryroach.net
courtesy of maryroach.net

Mary Roach, author of the weird sciency books Stiff, Gulp, and Bonk, should go on a comedy tour.  Her research about human physiology is not simply regurgitated on the page.  It is craftily masticated, suspensefully digested, and hilariously delivered for her readership to chew on.  Outside of this blog, I write about evidence-based medicine.  I do PubMed searches on things like “mycobacteria, prevalence, United States” and “typhoid fever, pathogenesis”.  For her work, Mary Roach searches for things like “cadaveric, penis” and “kegeling, urine dribble”. Here are some fascinating curiosities of Mary Roach. Continue reading Chew on this: the curiosities of Mary Roach