is the government's job to protect women and their right to choose," she said. "A woman's body is her house and whatever she does with it shouldn't be anyone's business."

Government records show about 250 abortions a year were performed on Guam from 2007 to 2017, the Pacific Daily News said. No abortions have been reported in the past 12 months.Pulitzer Prize-winning author Edward Larson talks about his article "Greater Glory" in the June issue of Scientific American on the forgotten science of the doomed Scott expedition a hundred years ago. Web sites related to this episode include Greater Glory and Edward Larson's page on Amazon.com

Podcast Transcription

Steve: Welcome to Scientific American’s Science Talk, posted on May 26th, 2011. I am Steve Mirsky. This week on the podcast:

Larson: When they dump everything and are sort of racing back to get to the final depot, they haul those 35 pounds of fossils all the way to when they die.

Steve: That's Edward Larson. He's a professor of history and law at Pepperdine University and a prolific writer. Larson won the Pulitzer Prize for his 1998 book Summer for the Gods: The