Kelly Weinersmith is an adjunct assistant professor in the BioSciences department at Rice University, where she studies parasites that manipulate host behavior. She is also co-author of the New York Time's Bestseller "Soonish: Ten Emerging Technologies That'll Improve And/Or Ruin Everything".

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 Kelly's book Soonish: Ten Emerging Technologies That'll Improve And/Or Ruin Everything". She co-authored with Zach Weinersmith,

 Check Out Kelly's two Podcasts

Science Sort Of Podcast and The Weekly Weinersmith

 Show Notes

The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert Heinlein

Rods from God

Zombie Ants

Toxoplasmosis

Kelly co-discovered a parasitoid that manipulates the behavior of its host

CRISPR