Mary Roach

STIFF: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers; GULP: Adventures on the Food Canal, PACKING FOR MARS: The Curious Science of Life in the Void; and BONK: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex. Her latest book, GRUNT: War's Curious Human Science, will be out in June 2016. Mary has written for, among others, National Geographic, Wired, Discover, New Scientist, Clinical Anatomy Journal, and Outside. She is a member of the Advisory Board of Mars Institu... tes and the American Heritage Dictionary Usage Panel. Her 2009 TED talk made the Twenty Most-Watched To Date list of organizations in 2011. She was the guest editor of the 2011 Best American Science and Nature Writing, a finalist for the 2014 Royal Society Winton Prize, and a winner of the American Engineering Societies Engineering Journalism Award, in a category for which she was the sole entrant, let's be honest.READ MORE