Interview Interlude Playlist, Part 6: Mary Roach

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Interview Interlude Playlist, Part 6: Mary Roach

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Mar 27, 2020

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Let's talk about penis transplants. Here's our 2016 chat with author Mary Roach, who devotes two chapters of her book "Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War" to urotrauma and genital transplant surgery.
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Interview Interlude Playlist, Part 6: Mary Roach

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