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Marry Roach is the author of Nine Books, all of the nonfiction.

Most of them with one syllable titles.

Grunt, stiff, gulp, bonk.

Mary is a very particular kind of science writer.

The stuff she obsesses over can seem weird or gross or marginal, but her passion and

her humor leave the reader just as wrapped up in them as she is.

In Grunt, it was the science of war and how soldiers on the battlefield are kept alive.

In stiff, it was about how we living human beings interact with cadavers, dead human beings.

Let me put it this way.

Of all the nonfiction writers who have ever appeared on our show, Mary is the one who

has done the most research into whether people have had sex in space.

Her newest book is called Fuzz when Nature breaks the law.

It's a book about how humans have tried and usually failed to manage nature.

Bears that break into dumpsters, mooses stepping into traffic, goals that eat papal flower arrangements.

That kind of thing.

It is always fun to talk to Mary.

So let's not delay our conversation any further.

My conversation with Mary Rutch.

Mary Rutch, welcome back to Bullseye.

Always nice to get to have you on the show.

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