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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

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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 unpretty fact of biology.

~ Mary Roach

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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.

~ Mary Roach

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…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 percentage of hydrogen produced in the colon is absorbed into the blood and, and when it reaches the lungs, exhaled. The breath hydrogen test has given flatus researchers a simple, consistent measure of gas production that does not require the subject to fart into a balloon.

~ Mary Roach

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