Episode · Conversations with Tyler · 2017-10-18
Books mentioned on Mary Roach on Disgust, Death, and Danger (Live at Mason)
Legal writing was never Mary Roach's thing. She describes that short-lived stint as an inscrutable "bringing forth of multisyllabic words.
Tyler Cowen discussed Gulp by Mary Roach and Grunt by Mary Roach. Mary Roach discussed Stiff by Mary Roach and others, Spook by Mary Roach, and In a Sunburned Country by Bill Bryson.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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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“so in your book gulp which is about the mechanics of eating you draw a distinction between stimulated and unstimulated saliva”
Where to get it
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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“because this is my you know as somebody who wrote this book stiff about medical cadaveric research it kind of behooves me to donate myself”
Where to get it
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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“this my favorite study from spook my second book was the University of Virginia psychologist who studies near-death experience had this idea”
Where to get it
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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”
Where to get it
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In a Sunburned Country
Discussed“Bill Bryson's writing not a specific book of his although in a sunburnt country is a wonderful mix of just everything that you would want to know about Australia and I was this book came out as I was on my way to Australia”
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