A Brief Tour Of The Alimentary Canal, From Spit To You Know What : Shots - Health News If you didn't know that spit makes a great spot remover or where prison inmates smuggle cellphones, ...

Explains the process of digestion, detailing how food is transformed into simpler substances that can be absorbed into the ...

The Chetek Area Book Club will host an approximately hourlong discussion of Mary Roach’s New York Times bestseller, “Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife” at 10 a.m. on Monday, July 14, ...

Interview: Mary Roach, Author Of 'Gulp: Adventures On The Alimentary Canal' With books like Stiff and Spook, Roach has built a reputation for making unpalatable subjects entertaining. In her new ...

So—if you assume as I did that Mary Roach’s Gulp will be straight narration down the alimentary canal (into the mouth, down the throat, into the stomach, into the intestines and beyond)—you ...

Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal Mary Roach. Norton, $26.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-393-08157-2 ...

Mary Roach Takes A Trip Down the Alimentary Canal. Mary Roach's new book, Gulp, explores our inner tubes. By Steve Mirsky. Join Our Community of Science Lovers! Sign Up for Our Free Daily Newsletter.

This article was originally published with the title “ Sugar in the Alimentary Canal ” in SA Supplements Vol. 5 No. 129supp (June 1878), p. 2059 doi:10.1038 ...

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In "Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal," she surveys centuries' worth of weird and wonderful discoveries about our digestive system, from the lips all the way down to the anus (which Roach ...

Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal. Author Mary Roach has written a saucy book about how we eat and some of the loopy science following food's voyage through our alimentary canals.