Hey, I have got a bonus today, an interview with me about the orphan vaccine story from

a few weeks ago.

I did this interview with a group at NPR who put out a great podcast called Science Diction.

First up here, you can hear Science Diction's story about vaccines in general.

It runs about 12 minutes.

Then, there's an interview with me at the end.

Hope you enjoy.

I'll be back Tuesday with a new episode of the Disappearing Spoon.

Picture a fairy tale gone disastrously wrong, and there are cows everywhere.

In one corner of the room, a man stares in shock at his own nose, which has sprouted a tiny cow.

Meanwhile, a woman wearing a bonnet, barfs out a cow.

The man sitting next to her is covered in lumps that look kind of like pimples,

but are actually, in fact, a bunch of tiny baby cows.

A cow is crawling out of another guy's ear.

A woman is sprouting a pair of cow horns.

It is a cow poloza.

And sitting at the center of this whole cow cacophony is a remarkably cow-free woman.

She's white knuckleing her chair with one arm, and her other arm is in the grip of this really

cold, nasty-looking man, and he's plunging a big fat needle into her arm.

She's getting vaccinated.

From Science Friday, this is Science Diction.

I'm Johanna Mayer.

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