Quote of the day
What can you conceive more silly and extravagant than to suppose a man racking his brains, and studying night and day how to fly?
Mary Roach

Born: March 20, 1959 (age 66)
Bio: Mary Roach is an American author, specializing in popular science and humor.
Known for:
- Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers (2003)
- Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War (2016)
- Packing for Mars (2010)
- Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife (2005)