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Mary Roach is the author of six bestselling popular science books, including Stiff: The curious lives of human cadavers; Gulp: Adventures on the alimentary canal and Fuzz: When nature breaks the law. She has been contributing to Â鶹´«Ã½ since 2006 and has also written for National Geographic, Wired, The New York Times Magazine and many other publications.

She was a guest editor of the Best American Science and Nature Writing series, has been an Osher Fellow with the San Francisco Exploratorium, a finalist for the Royal Society's Winton Prize and a winner of the American Engineering Societies' Engineering Journalism Award.