Winner of the Human Body book giveaway!

But first…a little story (I know you’re going to skip down to see anyway, but I’ll close my eyes and imagine you’re reading before you peek). I tried to generate random numbers using one of those online random number generators. But first I clicked it a couple times to see how it worked — and the first five clicks gave me the same number twice. Out of 200.

Now, I’m no mathematician, but I have seen a couple episodes of NUMB3RS, and I’m pretty sure that’s weird to get the same number twice in five “random” shuffles.

So, Sir, Mister, and I went all old-fashioned and cut numbers out of paper. I wanted to put the numbers in something themed, like a human skull or something, but ours were all in use so we had to go with a plastic box. Sir shook and shook and shook, then drew numbers.

And the winners are…

Well, wait. Did you catch that? Winners, plural? Here’s the thing. If I had enough books here, I’d give one to everyone who entered. There were so many really nice comments, and I truly appreciate each and every one. So I couldn’t just give away one book — I’m giving away two. To Tesa and Jammie – congratulations! (I’ll send you two an email to get your addresses.)

But guess what? I’ve got another giveaway coming up on the 30th, so please check back in. That giveaway is super-cool. It’s a plant kit from a fantastic company called DuneCraft. Love that company! But we’ll talk more about that later.

I’ll also be giving away two more of my own books — Planet Earth: 25 Environmental Projects You Can Build Yourself to celebrate Earth Day, and my newest book (out April 1, no joke), Energy: 25 Projects Investigate Why We Need Power and How We Get It.

So do come back — and thanks so much to everyone who took the time to enter!