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Books by Mary Roach mentioned on podcasts
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Stiff
Stiff by Mary Roach is a popular science nonfiction book exploring the strange, fascinating, and historically significant uses of human cadavers in medical research and scientific progress.
Discussed“Stiff happened. The cadaavver element of it just happened because I was wandering through the basement of the UCSF medical school library.”
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Stiff
Stiff by Mary Roach is a popular science nonfiction book exploring the strange, fascinating, and historically significant uses of human cadavers in medical research and scientific progress.
Discussed“Stiff happened. The cadaavver element of it just happened because I was wandering through the basement of the UCSF medical school library.”
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Grunt
Grunt by Mary Roach is a pop science book examining the science of the military and the experiences of soldiers out in the field.
Discussed“does that does that count your book on soldiers grunt also I believe your latest book”
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Spook
Spook by Mary Roach is a non-fiction science book that investigates historical and modern attempts to find scientific evidence of the afterlife and the human soul.
Discussed“but one of her books was called spook science tackles the afterlife and she was kind of agnostic on the issue she all she wanted to do was compile in her book a whole study of the stuff people did to investigate ghosts”
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Gulp
Gulp by Mary Roach is a work of popular science that humorously and thoroughly investigates the biology, mechanics, and cultural history of the human digestive tract.
Discussed“I don't think it has ever happened that I've thought maybe gulp, like the elementary canal. I had a sense that that tube between the nose and the ass was it's like there's different rules in there and it's a very weird space.”
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Fuzz
Mary Roach's Fuzz investigates how the natural world intersects with human law through wild animal behavior and wildlife crime.
Discussed“So, your last book was Fuzz. When nature breaks the law, it was about animals.”
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Packing for Mars
Packing for Mars by Mary Roach is a witty and thoroughly researched popular science book that investigates the bizarre, uncomfortable, and fascinating physical realities of space travel.
Discussed“Packing for Mars, the curious science of life in the void.”
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Bonk
Mary Roach's popular science book Bonk takes a fascinating and humorous look into the scientific study of human sexual physiology and the historical attempts to understand it.
Discussed“The closest I got, I think, was with Bonk, which is a book about the study of sexual physiology. Not gender, not behavior, but how do these bits and pieces work?”
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Replaceable You
Replaceable You by Mary Roach is a popular science book exploring the fascinating and unusual aspects of human anatomy through the author's signature investigative journalism and wit.
Recommended“is called Replaceable You: Adventures in Human Anatomy. This is by Mary Roach.”
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