Women in Science

Our happy plush ovary measures 10" x 8" x 4" and it's ready for your embrace. Fantastic booklet hangtag that explains this incredible gland. The ovaries produce eggs and release sex hormones estrogen and progesterone, which control all kinds of female reproductive mayhem from period regulation to babymaking. This plush gland makes a cute and squeezable friend when your body is acting like the enemy. Safe for all ages, this plush comes packed inside a biodegradable plastic sleeve and comes with an educational mini-book all about your ovary. Designed in California, made in China.

Your Ovary: Gland of the Ladies
Location: on each side of the uterus, near the end of the fallopian tube
Occupation: fertility consultant
Likes: estrogen, oocytes, liquor folliculi
Dislikes: PMS, menopause
Fun Facts: approximately 400 eggs are released over a woman’s lifetime, though she is born with millions
Wants to Meet: someone who wants to make a blastocyst.

Susie Survivor gives you the strength and courage to fight like hell!

Handmade in Thailand, each String Doll has his or her own special power that is always positive and helpful. They are fun for the whole family and make a perfect gift!

"One of the funniest and most unusual books of the year....Gross, educational, and unexpectedly sidesplitting."―Entertainment Weekly

Stiff is an oddly compelling, often hilarious exploration of the strange lives of our bodies postmortem. For two thousand years, cadavers―some willingly, some unwittingly―have been involved in science's boldest strides and weirdest undertakings. In this fascinating account, Mary Roach visits the good deeds of cadavers over the centuries and tells the engrossing story of our bodies when we are no longer with them.

by Mary Roach

Paperback

 

The irresistible, ever-curious, and always best-selling Mary Roach returns with a new adventure to the invisible realm we carry around inside.

“America’s funniest science writer” (Washington Post) takes us down the hatch on an unforgettable tour. The alimentary canal is classic Mary Roach terrain: the questions explored in Gulp are as taboo, in their way, as the cadavers in Stiff and every bit as surreal as the universe of zero gravity explored in Packing for Mars. Why is crunchy food so appealing? Why is it so hard to find words for flavors and smells? Why doesn’t the stomach digest itself? How much can you eat before your stomach bursts? Can constipation kill you? Did it kill Elvis? In Gulp we meet scientists who tackle the questions no one else thinks of―or has the courage to ask. We go on location to a pet-food taste-test lab, a fecal transplant, and into a live stomach to observe the fate of a meal. With Roach at our side, we travel the world, meeting murderers and mad scientists, Eskimos and exorcists (who have occasionally administered holy water rectally), rabbis and terrorists―who, it turns out, for practical reasons do not conceal bombs in their digestive tracts.

 

Like all of Roach’s books, Gulp is as much about human beings as it is about human bodies.