![]() ![]() ![]() How – you’ve got the entire digestive tract, alimentary canal covered. Mary, you're chewing on tampons, you're sticking your arm into a cow, living cow’s stomach, you're not hooping but you're writing about it. Be warned, some graphic language and subject matter is ahead. Mary’s book tour took her from her west coast home to New York City, so we met up early on the morning of April 3rd at her hotel in midtown to chew the fat. Steve Mirsky: And that is Mary Roach, author of Stiff, Spook, Bunk, Packing for Mars and now Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal. Mary Roach: A fistulated cow is a – you put your arm in and you feel, first of all, inside the rumen, it’s fermenting. Welcome to the Scientific American podcast Science Talk, posted on April 16, 2013. Right now, is offering a free audiobook and a one-month trial membership to the Scientific American audience. features 100,000 titles including science books like Mary Roach’s new book, Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal, and Thinking Fast and Slow, by Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman. Steve Mirsky: This Scientific American podcast is brought to you by, your source for audiobooks and more. ![]()
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