Book · 2024 · Science
Rumbles
A Curious History of the Gut: The Secret Story of the Body's Most Fascinating Organ
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Even one of the things that was interesting to me as I've read this in your book rumbles is that it just shows how little we knew about even the most basic things about digestion into the 1800s.
Steve Levitt · People I (Mostly) Admire · Dec 2024 Listen at 8:30 Why people recommend it
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Steve Levitt even one of the things that was interesting to me as I've read this in your book rumbles is that it just sh… 3
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“even one of the things that was interesting to me as I've read this in your book rumbles is that it just shows how little we knew about even the most basic things about digestion into the 1800s”
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“getting reading your book it's so easy to look at medical practices in the past and to laugh at how misguided they were”
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“for my guest Elsa Richardson the book rumbles was her first attempt to write for a popular audience as opposed to a small set of other academic historians”
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“Elsa is a medical historian at the University of Strath Glide whose most recent book is entitled rumbles a curious history of the gut”
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“it's so interesting because this is not in the book but I've been recently working on do you know the Kellogg Brothers sure of cornflakes”