A big welcome to science-y guest-blogger Mary Roach

Maggie Koerth 9:04 am Thu Aug 5, 2010

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I am beyond pleased to welcome science writer Mary Roach to Boing Boing.

In 2004, as a recent college graduate, I read her first book, Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers, and was utterly inspired. After Stiff, Mary wrote books about life after death, titled Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife, and shagging, titled Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex. I love Mary Roach's ability to dive into the funny side of science and drag up the thought-provoking pearls, and I hope you'll get a kick (and a few new favorite science anecdotes) out of her stint here. Along with a wide range of scientific curiosities, Mary will be blogging about space exploration, a far-out field she studied for her new book, Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void.

And, for the record, yes, she is sitting on a space toilet in that photo.

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