Alie Ward

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

You don't know if you should throw away.

Ali 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 Cadavers.

Spook, Science Tackles the Afterlife.

Bonk, 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 eight 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 barraged 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.