Stomach This

Big Picture Science

Science, Technology

4.5 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 6 May 2013

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Not all conversation is appropriate for the dinner table – and that includes, strangely enough, the subject of eating. Yet what happens during the time that food enters our mouth and its grand exit is a model of efficiency and adaptation. Author Mary Roach takes us on a tour of the alimentary canal, while a researcher describes his invention of an artificial stomach. Plus, a psychologist on why we find certain foods and smells disgusting. And, you don’t eat them but they could wiggle their way within nonetheless: surgical snakebots. Guests: Mary Roach – Author, most recently, of Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal Martin Wickham – Head of Nutrition, Leatherhead Food Research, U.K. Paul Rozin – Professor of psychology, University of Pennsylvania Michael Gershon – Professor in the Department of Pathology and Cell Biology, Columbia University Medical Center Howie Choset – Professor of robotics at Carnegie Mellon University Descripción en español Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You're listening to an airwave media podcast.
0:05.0	McDonald's are making small improvements to our classic burgers,
0:08.0	searing our 100% British and Irish beef parties,
0:10.0	so they're even juicier.
0:12.0	And we're serving them hotter for meltier cheese, all in new
0:15.4	toastier buns. The classics, now a little more mmm. comparison with prior classic burgers,
0:20.4	serves after 11 a.m. subject to availability.
0:22.4	Mm-hmm-hmm.
0:24.0	The world is filled with many questions, such as, did giants exist?
0:28.0	What is junk DNA?
0:30.0	Does it mean that you're trash?
0:32.0	Do you ever wonder if aliens have underwater bases in our oceans and that's why there are so many
0:36.9	UFO sightings off the coast of islands all over the world?
0:40.8	How serious even is climate change and when should we start building our rafts?
0:45.0	Hello everyone you may recognize me as Gabby from the History of Everything podcast and my name is
0:50.3	Brenna and you don't recognize me from anything yet.
0:54.0	Together we're two scientists to explore the answers to these questions and many, many more in
0:58.0	our new podcast Mystery of Everything, available everywhere you get your
1:02.2	podcast.
1:03.0	It's not easy to face some facts such as what happens after you die the truth about sex or how astronauts take care of personal business while in spacesuits.
1:13.0	But author Mary Roach has explained all of that in detail in her string of best-selling books.
1:18.0	And she now describes what happens to food after you pop it in your mouth.
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