Summary: <a href="https://maryroach.net/packing-for-mars-for-kids.html"></a>This week, Patrick and Tracy welcome <a href="https://maryroach.net/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mary Roach</a>, author of <a href="https://maryroach.net/packing-for-mars-for-kids.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">PACKING FOR MARS: FOR KIDS</a>.<br> About <a href="https://maryroach.net/packing-for-mars-for-kids.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">PACKING FOR MARS: FOR KIDS</a>: What is it like to float weightlessly in the air? What happens if you vomit in your helmet during a spacewalk? How do astronauts go to the bathroom? Is it true that they don’t shower? Can farts really be deadly in space?<br> Best-selling Mary Roach has the answers. In this whip-smart, funny, and informative young readers adaptation of her best-selling Packing for Mars, Roach guides us through the irresistibly strange, frequently gross, and awe-inspiring realm of space travel and life without gravity. From flying on NASA’s Weightless Wonder to eating space food, Packing for Mars for Kids is chock-full of firs-hand experiences and thorough research. Roach has crafted an authoritative and accessible book that is perfectly pitched to inquiring middle grade readers. 35 black-and-white photographs<br> About <a href="https://maryroach.net/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mary Roach</a>: Mary Roach is the author of six New York Times bestsellers, including STIFF: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers; GULP: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal, and PACKING FOR MARS: The Curious Science of Life in the Void. Her new book FUZZ: When Nature Breaks the Law, debuts in September 2021. Mary’s books have been published in 21 languages, and her second book, SPOOK, was a New York Times Notable Book. Mary has written for National Geographic, Wired, The New York Times Magazine, and the Journal of Clinical Anatomy, among others. She was a guest editor of the Best American Science and Nature Writing series and an Osher Fellow with the San Francisco Exploratorium and serves as an advisor for Orion and Undark magazines. She has been a finalist for the Royal Society’s Winton Prize and a winner of the American Engineering Societies’ Engineering Journalism Award, in a category for which, let’s be honest, she was the sole entrant.<br> This week’s picks:<br> <br> * Mary: <a href="https://youtu.be/w7aSybHRa6s">How To with John Wilson (HBOMax)</a><br> * Tracy: <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Galaxy-Ground-Within-Novel-Wayfarers/dp/0062936034">The Galaxy, and the Ground Within: A Novel (Wayfarers Book 4) by Becky Chambers</a><br> * Patrick: <a href="https://youtu.be/8Ab9IshCs1s" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Lucy & Desi (Prime Video)</a><br> <br> Links:<br> <br> * <a href="https://twitter.com/mary_roach" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Mary Roach on Twitter</a><br> * <a href="https://twitter.com/TracyATownsend" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Tracy Townsend on Twitter</a><br> * <a href="https://twitter.com/atfmb" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Patrick Hester on Twitter</a><br> * <a href="https://www.patreon.com/functionalnerds?ty=h" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">The Functional Nerds Patreon Page</a><br> <br> © 2022 Patrick Hester<br>
