Mary Roach - People are surprisingly off put just by saliva, the su

People are surprisingly off put just by saliva, the substance that you carry around in your mouth. You swallow it. You have no objection to it. But then it leaves your body, and you're just revolted. So it - that - just that right there to me is a fascinating thing.

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Roach, Mary. Interview by Terry Gross. Fresh Air, NPR, 9 Apr. 2013.

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About the Author

Mary Roach

Born: March 20, 1959
Nationality: American
Profession: Author (non-fiction); Humorist

Biography

Mary Roach is an American author, specializing in popular science and humor. As of 2016, she has published seven books: Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers (2003), Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife (2005) (published in some markets as Six Feet Over: Adventures in the Afterlife), Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex (2008), Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void (2010), My Planet: Finding Humor in the Oddest Places, Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal (2013), and Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War (2016).

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