Weird, gross science! With humor! That’s it, that’s the pitch.

Erika Engelhaupt is a science reporter who has covered all kinds of bizarre and fascinating topics for National Geographic. Gory Details is a compilation of the weirdest of those things. If you don’t want to read about a person who had a cockroach stuck in their ear canal (WHAT) or why some bodies float and others sink (huh), maybe skip this one.