Mary Roach on Disgust, Death, and Danger (Live at Mason)
Conversations with Tyler
English - October 18, 2017 12:05 - 1 hour - 52.9 MB - ★★★★★ - 2.1K ratingsSelf-Improvement Education Society & Culture entrepreneurship politics health interview leadership business news comedy culture books Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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.
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Recorded September 27th, 2017
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