- Broader
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
To me, NASA is kind of the magical kingdom. I was sort of a geek, and you go there, and there are just these wondrously strange things and people.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
You won't see me writing about particle physics, or even planetary geology, or chemistry. I practically failed chemistry, and if I had to write a book in any of those areas, I don't think it would go well.
- Fashion
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every crazy fad from the 1800s comes back or they never go away. It's like fashion, like everything's already been invented, and somebody stumbles onto it and people will always, always be looking for an answer for some vague illness they can't get a diagnosis for.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
Bodily fluids and solids are universally the most disgusting things we as human beings can come upon, but as long as they are inside us, it's part of you.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
For the scientists, they're kind of puzzled and pleased that somebody finds their work interesting. It makes it fun for me. I feel like I've sort of turned over a stone that hasn't been turned over.
- Bored
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've read plenty of amazing science pieces where the writers don't hang out in labs. I just have fun doing it. And I get rewarded for it; I get gushy, especially when kids tell me they expected to be bored by my books, but weren't.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't write on topics that require a lot of urgency. But in 'Stiff,' I wanted to change people's hearts about organ donation. Whenever I get a chance, I try to talk about that.
- Getting
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 'Packing for Mars,' I tried to convey the importance of getting young people interested in science.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are people who would love to spend their last ten years, or five years, or whatever it is, on the surface of Mars.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you could really guarantee that the money would be spent on something more worthwhile, I'd say, absolutely, scrap the space program, but it never works that way.
- Drops
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- Nov 07, 2020
All the clothes in my closet are Oakland, California, clothes. You can't wear those anywhere else. The barometric pressure drops and then where are you?
- Internet
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- Nov 07, 2020
My books are not really books; they're endless chains of distraction shoved inside a cover. Many of them begin at the search box of Pub Med, an Internet database of medical journal articles.
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I'm done with a book, I always give it to someone with expertise in the topic and tell them to flag all of my stupid mistakes.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I spend a lot of my time on the phone, pestering people. 'What's new in your lab? Can I come visit your lab? When can I come visit your lab?' I'm basically a professional pesterer.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
I get really excited about specific therapies, personalized therapies. Like, let's say, taking a piece of someone's tumor and testing a bunch of treatments in a lab and being able to come up with the right therapy for that specific patient.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
People are surprisingly off put just by saliva, the substance that you carry around in your mouth. You swallow it. You have no objection to it. But then it leaves your body, and you're just revolted. So it - that - just that right there to me is a fascinating thing.
- Doctor
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had a bike accident a few years ago, and I went to the emergency room, and I had to have a gash sewn up. And I am the kind of person that I was sitting up fascinated, watching, to the extent that the doctor said, 'Do you want to do a couple of stitches? You seem to be very interested.'
- Everyone
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- Nov 07, 2020
Editors are more concerned with the first chapters of a book; that's what everyone reads first in the bookstore or in the online sample.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you buy my books, you kind of know what you're in for. It's kind of self-selecting. If you have a delicate sensibility, and you're easily grossed out, you probably will never read one of my books.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fletcherizing is gross. I tried it once. I tried to go until it's all liquid, and it just creeps you out to be focusing so much on your chewing.
- Appreciation
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- Nov 07, 2020
People don't appreciate their intestines until something goes wrong. But I always hope that people gain a little appreciation for their guts.
- Out
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm one of those goobers who comes out of the polling place actually wearing the 'I VOTED' sticker on my jacket.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
Because there are now online databases of federally funded research, and these databases are searchable by keyword, sex researchers have to be careful how they title their projects. It's become a simple matter, for those who are so inclined, to find and target researchers whose work they object to on religious grounds.
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020