{"quotes":[{"text":"…he was doing a breath hydrogen test. If you know the amount of hydrogen someone is exhaling orally, it's a simple matter to extrapolate the amount they're exhaling rectally. This is because a fixed percentage of hydrogen produced in the colon is absorbed into the blood and, and when it reaches the lungs, exhaled. The breath hydrogen test has given flatus researchers a simple, consistent measure of gas production that does not require the subject to fart into a balloon.","author":"Mary Roach","tags":["absorb","blood","colon","extrapolate","flatulence","gas","gulp","hydrogen","mary-roach"],"id":35023,"author_id":"Mary+Roach"},{"text":"What sort of person experimentally infests a child with maggots? A confident sort, certainly. A maverick. Someone comfortable with the unpretty facts of biology. Someone who is perhaps himself an unpretty fact of biology.","author":"Mary Roach","tags":["grunt","mary-roach","science"],"id":39400,"author_id":"Mary+Roach"},{"text":"US government button specifications run to twenty-two pages. This fact on its own yields a sense of what it is like to design garments for the Army.","author":"Mary Roach","tags":["humor","humour","mary-roach","military","science"],"id":190224,"author_id":"Mary+Roach"},{"text":"We are biology. We are reminded of this at the beginning and the end, at birth and at death. In between we do what we can to forget.","author":"Mary Roach","tags":["biology","death","life","mary-roach","science"],"id":346944,"author_id":"Mary+Roach"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":4,"pages":1}}