Episode 209 - Mary Roach

Probably Science

Andy Wood, Matt Kirshen

Jessecase, Comedy, News, Mattkirshen, Standup, Andywood, Science & Medicine, Science, Brookswheelan

4.8 • 707 Ratings

🗓️ 25 May 2016

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Popular science author Mary Roach's (@mary_roach) books have tackled a wide variety of topics including sex, the afterlife, digestion and space travel. In her soon-to-be-released book Grunt, she takes on the curious science of humans at war, delving into combat medic training, stink bombs, genital transplant surgery, the war on heat, shark repellant and diarrhea as a threat to national security. Pre-order your copy of Grunt now!

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0:00.0	Probably Science
0:02.0	Hey everyone, welcome to Probably Science. I'm Matt, this is Andy.
0:14.0	Hello, hello.
0:15.0	We're indoors, we're wide up to Skype. This is a very special episode, and...
0:19.0	Should we start with an apology apology because we've lost an episode
0:21.8	wait I thought we weren't admitting that okay yeah I'm gonna admit that
0:24.9	I think we should because we were a week late yeah yeah we lost an episode last week
0:28.4	that was it was a good one just when we thought we had all the text sorted out
0:32.1	turns out we don't but we will get the guests we recorded with back on again soon
0:36.6	so not to worry but thanks for putting up with a week of no show.
0:39.6	I'm sorry about that.
0:40.8	It went wrong.
0:42.2	Those things happened.
0:43.2	But luckily this week, to make up for that, we have a guest.
0:45.7	We've been trying to get on for, I think it's been well over a year now.
0:50.0	Yeah, because I think we were first going to try and get her on when she was writing packing for Mars. Oh, that was 2010, but, well, I had read that around when we interviewed Chris Hadfield,
0:59.0	the commander of the ISS.
1:00.4	That's right.
1:01.6	Yeah, she's written a number of great popular science books.
1:04.8	Mary Roach is going to be our guest today.
1:06.4	She'll be Skyping in with us.
1:07.3	Phenomenal writer.
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