Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex, by Mary Roach
My friend Pat got this book a few years ago as a sort of graduation present from our physics department faculty (I got World Without End, which I have yet to crack open), which caused a lot of...
View ArticleSpook: Science Tackles the Afterlife, by Mary Roach
Hello again, Mary Roach. You are ever so delightful. In this book, Roach does indeed tackle the afterlife, starting with a bit of religion and then really focusing on spirits and mediums (media?) for...
View ArticlePacking for Mars, by Mary Roach
Ah, Mary Roach. It’s been awhile. How you been? Oh, you’ve been gallivanting around the world talking to astronauts and wannabe astronauts and chimponauts and people who pretend to be astronauts for...
View ArticleStiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers, by Mary Roach
Mary Roach is one of the few nonfiction authors whom I have on my list of “authors whose entire backlist I should go read right now,” which is partially because I just don’t read that much nonfiction...
View ArticleGulp, by Mary Roach
Yay Mary Roach! This is her newest book and the only one I hadn’t read (well, listened to) yet, so of course this was book number one on the Great Annual McCarty Northern Migration Road Trip. I might...
View ArticleWeekend Shorts: Science! on Audio
Ahhhh, science (science!). I love it. It is inescapable. It is fascinating. But, especially after reading the second book I’m going to talk about today, I am so glad I’m not a professional scientist....
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