May 06, 2013

Stomach This

54 minutes

Not all conversation is appropriate for the dinner table – and that includes, strangely enough, the subject of eating. Yet what happens during the time that food enters our mouth and its grand exit is a model of efficiency and adaptation.

Author Mary Roach takes us on a tour of the alimentary canal, while a researcher describes his invention of an artificial stomach. Plus, a psychologist on why we find certain foods and smells disgusting. And, you don’t eat them but they could wiggle their way within nonetheless: surgical snakebots.

Guests:

Mary Roach – Author, most recently, of Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal

Martin Wickham – Head of Nutrition, Leatherhead Food Research, U.K.

Paul Rozin – Professor of psychology, University of Pennsylvania

Michael Gershon – Professor in the Department of Pathology and Cell Biology, Columbia University Medical Center

Howie Choset – Professor of robotics at Carnegie Mellon University

Descripción en español

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