It's Monday, April 3rd, 2017, and you're listening to Inquiring Minds.

I'm Indravis Contas.

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We're taking a break this week, but we wanted to play you one of our favorite episodes

of all time. And in fact, it features one of my favorite science writers of all time, Mary Roach.

Mary Roach's book, Gulp, is both disgusting and fascinating and infinitely interesting.

I had the pleasure of interviewing her on our very first

season of inquiring minds. She blows my mind and makes me laugh, and I hope you'll have the same

reaction. But if you'd prefer not to listen to an old episode, we're also including the first

episode of my new podcast in the feed. It's called Cadence, and it explores what music tells us about our

minds. And if you like that episode, there are three more waiting for you on iTunes or wherever you

get your podcasts. Here's my interview with Mary Roach. Welcome to Inquiring Minds, Mary Roach.

Thank you. Your most recent book, Gulp, Adventures on the Elementary Canal, has just been

released in paperback. And in it, you follow the flow of food from our sense of smell to taste

and so on all the way to the other end. Now, this is quite the grand journey, but because we're

somewhat pressed for time in this interview, I wanted to jump right into the deep end, as it were.

The below the waist end.

Exactly.

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