RaveScienceNewsIn her latest book, Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law, Mary Roach puts the spotlight on these miscreants ... The book brims with Roach’s irreverent humor, which particularly shines when she experiences human-animal conflict firsthand ... But it’s not all fun and reindeer games. Roach highlights how much real pain comes from human-animal interactions ... Most chapters offer a blend of modern science and history, with Roach’s flair for spotting hidden absurdities ... as another entry in Roach’s canon of books, Fuzz stands tall (and hairy), educating as much as it entertains. But please: Just learn from her. Do not taste the rat bait.
Sarah Everts
RaveScience NewsEverts’ plunge into sweat is full of energy, and her open curiosity about our much-maligned bodily secretion leaks onto every page ... The book offers plenty of fascinating facts ... Everts is never too serious. She gamely gets her armpits professionally sniffed, and she joins naked, sweating audiences for sauna theater ... These stories amuse, but a more profound point lingers ... By highlighting history, Everts shows that any perceived problems of sweat are most often cultural, not biological.
