Her 2009 TED talk made the organization's 2011 Twenty Most-Watched To Date list. She serves as a member of the Mars Institute's Advisory Board and the Usage Panel of American Heritage Dictionary.
Mary has written for National Geographic, Wired, Discover, New Scientist, the Journal of Clinical Anatomy, and Outside, among others. Mary Roach is the author of the New York Times bestsellers STIFF: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers GULP: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal, PACKING FOR MARS: The Curious Science of Life in the Void BONK: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex and GRUNT: The Curious Science of Humans at War. (Oct.Mary Roach is a science author who specializes in the bizarre and offbeat with a body of work ranging from deep-dives on the history of human cadavers to the science of the human anatomy during warfare. 12-city author tour 40-city radio satellite tour She is an original who can enliven any subject with wit, keen reporting and a sly intelligence. The text is littered with footnotes: tangential but delicious tidbits that Roach clearly couldn't bear to leave out. She goes to school to learn to be a medium, subjects her brain to electromagnetic waves to see if they induce the experience of seeing ghosts and joins a group trying to record sounds made by the spirits of the Donner party. She ranges into the oddest nooks and crannies of both science and belief (and scientists who believe), regaling the reader with tales of Duncan Macdougall, a respected surgeon who weighed consumptives at their moment of death to see if the escaping soul could be measured in ounces, and of female mediums who, during séances, extruded a substance called ectoplasm from their private parts (she even examines a piece of alleged ectoplasm archived at Cambridge University). Roach perfectly balances her skepticism and her boundless curiosity with a sincere desire to know. Yet she has done it again: after her study of what becomes of our mortal coil after death, she now presents an equally smart, quirky, hilarious look at whether there is a soul that survives our physical demise.
Roach made an exceptional debut two years ago with Stiff.
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