She was the guest editor of The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2011 and a winner of the American Association of Engineering Societies' Engineering Journalism Award, in a category for which she was the sole entrant. Her 2009 TED talk made the organization's 2011 Twenty Most-Watched To Date List. She serves as a member of the Mars Institute's Advisory Board and the Usage Panel of American Heritage Dictionary. Roach learns that surgeons cope by objectifying human remains, willfully seeing them as objects. Mary has written for National Geographic, Wired, New Scientist, The New York Times Book Review, The Journal of Clinical Anatomy, and Outside, among others. Mary Roach begins her research of human cadavers by attending a facial anatomy and facelift refresher course, where surgeons practice new techniques on the freshly severed heads of human cadavers. Stiff has been translated into 26 languages and Spook was a New York Times Notable Book. Packing For Mars is a New York Times Editor's Choice and a "One City, One Book" selection for San Francisco. In an attempt to find out, Mary Roach brings her tireless curiosity to bear on an array of contemporary and historical soul-searchers: scientists, schemers, engineers, mediums, all trying to prove (or disprove) that life goes on after we die. Mary Roach is the author of the New York Times bestsellers Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal, Packing For Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex, Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife, and her latest, Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War.
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