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Their first book, Soonish: Ten emerging technologies that'll improve and\/or ruin everything, was a New York Times bestseller. Zach Weinersmith is the cartoonist behind the popular geek webcomic, Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal. He co-wrote the New York Times bestseller Soonish: Ten emerging technologies that'll improve and\/or ruin everything and illustrated the New York Times-bestselling Open borders: The science and ethics of immigration. His work has been featured by The Economist, The Wall Street Journal, Slate, Forbes, Science Friday, Foreign Policy, PBS, Boingboing, the Freakonomics blog, the Radiolab blog, Entertainment Weekly, Mother Jones, CNN, Discovery Magazine, Nautilus and more. 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Full of extraordinary facts (your body made a million red blood cells since you started reading this) and irresistible Brysonesque anecdotes, The Body will lead you to a deeper understanding of the miracle that is life in general and you in particular.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eAs Bill Bryson writes, \"We pass our existence within this wobble of flesh and yet take it almost entirely for granted.\" The Body will cure that indifference with generous doses of wondrous, compulsively readable facts and information. 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