Little Atoms 221 – Road Trip 06 – Mary Roach

While still in Oakland, California, Neil visits the office of science writer Mary Roach. Mary Roach has written for the Guardian, Vogue, GQ, Salon, Wired, National Geographic and the New York Times Magazine. She is the author of Stiff: The Curious Life of Human Cadavers, Six Feet Over: Adventures in the Afterlife and Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Sex and Science. Her latest book, which we talk about in this interview, is Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in Space.