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Rerun: #460 Mary Roach (Oct 2021)
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Length:
58 minutes
Released:
Nov 29, 2023
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Podcast episode
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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)
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"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)
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Released:
Nov 29, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (100)
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