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Get Your Science On
May 25, 2009 | 1 Comment
At some point in time nerds became cool, and thank goodness for this because culture is way more interesting when it is lead by nerds than by, say, jocks (please forgive me if I’ve insulted your inner jock.) Take author Mary Roach for example. She is what I like to call a Diva Nerd. She’s beautiful, smart, funny as hell, a scientist, and an incredible writer. Her most recent book, BONK, is a “curious coupling of science and sex”, and it deserves to be this week’s Book That We Want to Read.
“The study of sexual physiology—what happens, and why, and how to make it happen better—has been going on for centuries, behind the closed doors of laboratories, brothels, Alfred Kinsey’s attic, and, more recently, MRI centers, pig farms, and sex-toy R&D labs. I spent two years wheedling and conniving my way behind those doors to bring you the answers to the questions Dr. Ruth never asked. Is your penis three inches longer than you think? Is vaginal orgasm a myth? Can a dead man get an erection? Why doesn’t Viagra help women—or, for that matter, pandas?”
Here’s Mary discussing some of the subjects in her book at the TED Talks. (Nerd central.)
(Speaking of sex and nerds. My heart have a giddy leap when I noticed that I was being “followed” by _Spock_ on Twitter. I have always had a crush on Spock, ever since I was a child and a much younger Leonard Nimoy’s jaunty eyebrow seemed to embody my oddball ideal of manly charm. I am sure many Trekkies would scoff at this, but I shamefully admit that my girlish crush continues with ferocity now that the role has been taken up by a fresh Spocksian actor.)
Spock: The ultimate sexy nerd.
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