Rerun: #460 Mary Roach (Oct 2021)

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🗓️ 29 November 2023

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Mary Roach is the author of seven nonfiction books, including Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law. "In these realms of the taboo, there's a tremendous amount of material that is really interesting, but that people have stayed away from. ... I'm kind of a bottom feeder. It's down there on the bottom where people don't want to go. But if that's what it takes to find interesting, new material, I'm fine with it. I don't care. I'm not easily grossed out. I don't feel that there's any reason why we shouldn't look at this. And over time, I started to feel that ... the taboo was preventing people from having conversations that it would be healthy to have." Show notes: @mary_roach maryroach.net Roach on Longform 00:00 Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law (W.W. Norton • 2021) 01:00 Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers (W.W. Norton • 2003) 01:00 Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex (W.W. Norton • 2008) 01:00 Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void (W.W. Norton • 2010) 01:00 Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal (W.W. Norton • 2014) 02:00 "Cute Inc." (Wired • Dec 1999) 12:00 Roach's Salon archive 46:00 "Hot Seat" (Discover • Mar 1998) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:25.0	Actually the holiday was last week, but we tape a week ahead, so technically we were off last week for the holiday.
1:32.0	In any case, because of that, we have an older interview for you.
1:36.3	The 2021 conversation I had with Mary Roach. She is the author of books like Stiff and Bonk and Packing for Mars.
1:45.0	Her book that was out at the time was called Fuzz,
1:48.2	When Nature Breaks the Law.
1:50.1	I had a lot of fun talking to her and we thought that everyone could use something a little lighter at the moment.
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