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Mary Roach on Disgust, Death, and Danger (Live at Mason)
Mary Roach on Disgust, Death, and Danger (Live at Mason)
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Length:
76 minutes
Released:
Oct 18, 2017
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Podcast episode
Description
Legal writing was never Mary Roach’s thing. She describes that short-lived stint as an inscrutable “bringing forth of multisyllabic words.” Instead, she’s forged a career by letting curiosity lead the way. The result has been a series of successful books — Grunt, Gulp, Spook, Stiff, and Bonk among them— that all reveal a specific sense of nonsensibility (and love for monosyllabic titles). She joins Tyler Cowen for a conversation covering the full range of her curiosity, including fear, acclimating to grossness, chatting with the dead, freezing one’s head, why bedpans can kill you, sex robots, Freud, thinking like an astronaut, the proper way to eat a fry, and why there’s a Medicare reimbursement code for maggots. Transcript and links Follow Mary on Twitter Follow Tyler on Twitter More CWT goodness: Facebook Twitter Instagram Email
Released:
Oct 18, 2017
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (100)
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