Oh, hey, it's last year's calendar.

You don't know if you should throw away.

Allie Ward, and this is a very special episode of ologies that I know so many of you right now are losing your damn minds.

Friends, I'm right there with you.

Wow.

Over the last 20 years, this guest has written so many New York Times bestsellers.

It's a labor to list them all,

but I will because they are glorious books. So you may know these titles,

Stiff, the Curious Lives of Human Cadhavers, Spook, Science Tackles the Afterlife, Bunk, the Curious Coupling of Science and Sex, Packing for Mars, the curious science of life in the void,

gulp, adventures on the elementary canal, grunt, the curious science of humans at war and fuzz

when nature breaks the law. This guest is the Meryl Streep of Science Writing. I looked it up.

Meryl Streep has three Oscars. This person,

seven New York Times bestsellers, absolute goat. With just an ape brain and a notepad,

this person has changed the way the public interfaces with science. Now, because of that in the

first half, I just barrage them with questions about science communication and how they write books and their approach to storytelling in conveying science

to the public, what it's like behind the scenes. And then in the second half, we really dive

in your questions on human technomorphology, which is the topic in their latest book,

Replaceable You, Adventures in Human Anatomy, which comes out today, September

16th. I had to wait to put this up until today. Get the book. Love it. I read it in a day and a half.

It's like a bingeable book, this one. So this interview, side note, had to be rescheduled a few times

just because of some tech glitches. And right after we did

record, I closed my laptop and I start crying, but you will find out why in a bit. But first, thank you

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