Special Episode: Mary Roach & Fuzz

This Podcast Will Kill You

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Health & Fitness, Science

4.8 • 17.7K Ratings

🗓️ 23 May 2023

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Where can you find banana-stealing macaques, dumpster-diving bears, flower-destroying gulls, and dangerously-exploding trees all in the same place? In a book by Mary Roach, of course. In this TPWKY book club episode, we’re joined by world’s funniest science writer and award-winning author to chat about her latest book Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law, a rollicking tour of the many ways that humans and wildlife clash and the varied attempts to mitigate this conflict. Our conversation carries us across the globe as we discuss why “man-eating cat” is a misnomer and how the Vatican takes pest control very seriously, and through time as we contemplate the changing nature of conservation and the hopeful future of human-wildlife conflict. If you’ve ever wondered about the forensics of wildlife attacks (in other words, what’s going on in the Ponderosa Room?) or whether scarecrows work like they’re supposed to (spoilers, they don’t), then this is the episode for you.

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0:00.0	This is exactly right.
0:06.0	Many put their hope in Dr. Serhat.
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1:16.4	latest installment of the T.P.W. K. Y Book Club, my absolute favorite club where we get to read fascinating popular science books and then chat with the authors of those books.
1:30.0	We've gotten to talk about why we saw COVID coming, yet we're not able to stop it,
1:35.0	whether sweat could be used as evidence in a criminal investigation,
1:40.0	what the public image makeover of Neanderthals has to do with race science and how uterus pancakes can help
1:46.3	us communicate more clearly about menstruation. It's been so much fun so far and I hope you And it just keeps getting better because this episode I'll
1:59.7	be chatting with one of the best and and in arguably the funniest, science writers out there, the
2:06.2	one and only Mary Roach.
2:09.0	Whether she's covering what happens to cadavers after they get donated to science in her book Stiff, the science of sex in bonk, how space travel affects all aspects of human life and packing for Mars, or any of the other topics covered in her other
2:25.8	best-selling and award-winning books, Roach strikes that delicate balance
2:30.6	between engaging and educational, all while being human and gut-bustingly hilarious.
2:38.0	Seriously, if you haven't read any of her books before, you should go get them all.
2:42.0	You'll thank me later.
2:43.7	In today's episode though, Roach joins me to chat not about cadavers or the Alimentary Canal,
2:50.1	but about her latest book, Fuzz, When Nature Breaks the Law, published in 2021.
2:56.3	Human wildlife conflict can come in all shapes and sizes,
3:00.5	from charismatic megafauna doing uncharismatic things like elephants
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