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Mary Roach - Bilingual quotes that celebrate the beauty of language, showcasing meaningful expressions in two unique perspectives.
Mary Roach is a well-known author celebrated for her engaging and informative books on diverse scientific topics. She has a knack for blending humor with meticulous research, making complex subjects accessible and entertaining to a broad audience. Roach explores a range of themes, from the human body to unconventional aspects of science, showcasing her curiosity and enthusiasm for the wonders of the natural world. Her works often delve into areas that are typically shrouded in mystery or deemed taboo, such as death, space travel, and the intricacies of the digestive system. Roach is adept at transforming potentially dry material into captivating narratives that both educate and amuse readers. This unique approach has garnered her a loyal readership and acclaim within literary circles. Roach’s writing not only highlights scientific facts but also emphasizes the human element behind the research, showcasing the people and stories involved. With each book, she aims to demystify science, providing insights that resonate with everyday experiences and sparking curiosity in her audience. Through her books, she encourages readers to embrace the wonders of science and fosters a greater appreciation for the world around them. Mary Roach is a renowned author known for her unique ability to make science entertaining and approachable. Her works tackle a variety of scientific subjects with a blend of humor and thorough research, engaging a wide range of readers. She focuses on topics that are often considered taboo or complex, such as human anatomy and space exploration, presenting them in an accessible manner. This distinctive approach has earned her praise both from general readers and experts alike. By emphasizing the human stories behind scientific discoveries, Roach not only informs her audience but also instills a sense of wonder about the natural world. Her writing inspires curiosity and encourages a deeper understanding of science in everyday life.
The moral of the story is this: It takes an ill-advised mix of ignorance, arrogance, and profit motive to dismiss the wisdom of the human body in favor of some random notion you've hatched or heard and branded as true. By wisdom I mean the collective improvements of millions of years of evolution. The mind objects strongly to shit, but the body has no idea what we're on about.
Mary Roach Gulp: Adventures on the...
The moral of the story is this: It takes an ill-advised mix of ignorance, arrogance, and profit motive to dismiss the wisdom of the human body in favor of some random notion you've hatched or heard and branded as true. By wisdom I mean the collective improvements of millions of years of evolution. The mind objects strongly to shit, but the body has no idea what we're on about.
Rodents, on the other hand, are slaves to sweetness. They have been known to die of malnutrition rather than step away from a sugar-water drip. In an obesity study from the 1970s, rats fed an all-you-can-eat "supermarket" diet that included marshmallows, milk chocolate, and chocolate-chip cookies gained 269 percent more weight than rats fed standard laboratory fare. There are strains of mice that will, over the course of a day, consume their own bodyweight in diet soda, and you do not want the job of changing their bedding. Does
Mary Roach Gulp: Adventures on the...
Rodents, on the other hand, are slaves to sweetness. They have been known to die of malnutrition rather than step away from a sugar-water drip. In an obesity study from the 1970s, rats fed an all-you-can-eat "supermarket" diet that included marshmallows, milk chocolate, and chocolate-chip cookies gained 269 percent more weight than rats fed standard laboratory fare. There are strains of mice that will, over the course of a day, consume their own bodyweight in diet soda, and you do not want the job of changing their bedding. Does
The one image I eventually found of Alexis St. Martin as a whole young man is in a painting by Dean Cornwell entitled Beaumont and St. Martin-part of the Pioneers of American Medicine series commissioned in 1938 by Wyeth Laboratories for an ad campaign. Despite the unfortunate side-parted bob that St. Martin appeared to stick with all through his adult life, the man as Cornwell rendered him is striking: broad cheekbones, vertically plunging aquiline nose, and a firmly muscled, deeply tanned chest and arms. Beaumont is dashing but dandified. His hair is oddly waved and piled, like something squeezed from a cake decorator's bag.
Mary Roach Gulp: Adventures on the...
The one image I eventually found of Alexis St. Martin as a whole young man is in a painting by Dean Cornwell entitled Beaumont and St. Martin-part of the Pioneers of American Medicine series commissioned in 1938 by Wyeth Laboratories for an ad campaign. Despite the unfortunate side-parted bob that St. Martin appeared to stick with all through his adult life, the man as Cornwell rendered him is striking: broad cheekbones, vertically plunging aquiline nose, and a firmly muscled, deeply tanned chest and arms. Beaumont is dashing but dandified. His hair is oddly waved and piled, like something squeezed from a cake decorator's bag.
For two people so firmly distanced by class and employment structure, Beaumont and St. Martin inhabited a relationship that could be oddly, intensely intimate. On applying the tongue to the mucous coat of the stomach, in its empty, unirritated state, no acid taste can be perceived.
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For two people so firmly distanced by class and employment structure, Beaumont and St. Martin inhabited a relationship that could be oddly, intensely intimate. On applying the tongue to the mucous coat of the stomach, in its empty, unirritated state, no acid taste can be perceived.
In Working Ethics: William Beaumont, Alexis St. Martin, and Medical Research in Antebellum America, historian Alexa Green explains the men's relationship as clearly one of master and servant. If the man wants to push a piece of mutton through your side, you let him.
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In Working Ethics: William Beaumont, Alexis St. Martin, and Medical Research in Antebellum America, historian Alexa Green explains the men's relationship as clearly one of master and servant. If the man wants to push a piece of mutton through your side, you let him.
The two first met in June 1822, at a company store on Mackinac Island, part of a trading post owned by the American Fur Company. St. Martin was a French Canadian voyageur-an indentured trapper-hauling pelts by canoe and on foot through the woodsy landscape of the Michigan Territory. St. Martin retained little memory of the pair's historic meeting, lying, as he was, barely conscious on the floor. Someone's gun had discharged accidently, spraying a load of duck shot into St. Martin's side, and Beaumont, the army surgeon assigned to the nearby garrison, had been called down to help.
Mary Roach Gulp: Adventures on the...
The two first met in June 1822, at a company store on Mackinac Island, part of a trading post owned by the American Fur Company. St. Martin was a French Canadian voyageur-an indentured trapper-hauling pelts by canoe and on foot through the woodsy landscape of the Michigan Territory. St. Martin retained little memory of the pair's historic meeting, lying, as he was, barely conscious on the floor. Someone's gun had discharged accidently, spraying a load of duck shot into St. Martin's side, and Beaumont, the army surgeon assigned to the nearby garrison, had been called down to help.
THREE FAMOUS ENGRAVINGS depict Alexis St. Martin in his youth. I've seen them many times, in biographies of his surgeon William Beaumont, in Beaumont's own book, in journal articles about the pair. As detailed as the artworks are, you can't tell what St. Martin looked like from examining them. All three woodcuts are of the lower portion of his left breast, and the famous hole. I could pick St. Martin's nipple out of a lineup before I could his eyes. I suppose this makes sense; Beaumont was a researcher and St. Martin his subject-more a body than a man.
Mary Roach Gulp: Adventures on the...
THREE FAMOUS ENGRAVINGS depict Alexis St. Martin in his youth. I've seen them many times, in biographies of his surgeon William Beaumont, in Beaumont's own book, in journal articles about the pair. As detailed as the artworks are, you can't tell what St. Martin looked like from examining them. All three woodcuts are of the lower portion of his left breast, and the famous hole. I could pick St. Martin's nipple out of a lineup before I could his eyes. I suppose this makes sense; Beaumont was a researcher and St. Martin his subject-more a body than a man.
Pet foods come in a variety of flavors because that's what we humans like,† and we assume our pets like what we like. We have that wrong. "For cats especially," Moeller says, "change is often more difficult than monotony." Nancy
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Pet foods come in a variety of flavors because that's what we humans like,† and we assume our pets like what we like. We have that wrong. "For cats especially," Moeller says, "change is often more difficult than monotony." Nancy
Higher-end detergents contain at least three digestive enzymes: amylase to break down starchy stains, protease for proteins, and lipase for greasy stains {not just edible fats but body oils like sebum}. Laundry detergent is essentially a digestive tract in a box. Ditto dishwashing detergent: protease and lipase eat the food your dinner guests didn't. Credit
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Higher-end detergents contain at least three digestive enzymes: amylase to break down starchy stains, protease for proteins, and lipase for greasy stains {not just edible fats but body oils like sebum}. Laundry detergent is essentially a digestive tract in a box. Ditto dishwashing detergent: protease and lipase eat the food your dinner guests didn't. Credit
Humans are better equipped for sight than for smell. We process visual input ten times faster than olfactory.
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Humans are better equipped for sight than for smell. We process visual input ten times faster than olfactory.
Flavor is a combination of taste {sensory input from the surface of the tongue} and smell, but mostly it's the latter. Humans perceive five tastes-sweet, bitter, salty, sour, and umami {brothy}-and an almost infinite number of smells. Eighty to ninety percent of the sensory experience of eating is olfaction.
Mary Roach Gulp: Adventures on the...
Flavor is a combination of taste {sensory input from the surface of the tongue} and smell, but mostly it's the latter. Humans perceive five tastes-sweet, bitter, salty, sour, and umami {brothy}-and an almost infinite number of smells. Eighty to ninety percent of the sensory experience of eating is olfaction.
You may be wondering, though probably not, why newborns-who have no teeth to protect-produce excessive volumes of drool. Silletti has answers. One is simple mechanics. They lack teeth to physically keep it in there.
Mary Roach Gulp: Adventures on the...
You may be wondering, though probably not, why newborns-who have no teeth to protect-produce excessive volumes of drool. Silletti has answers. One is simple mechanics. They lack teeth to physically keep it in there.
Could thorough chewing lower the national debt? If saliva is full of bacteria, why do animals lick their wounds? Why don't suicide bombers smuggle bombs in their rectums? Why don't stomachs digest themselves? Why is crunchy food so appealing? Can constipation kill you? Did it kill Elvis? You
Mary Roach Gulp: Adventures on the...
Could thorough chewing lower the national debt? If saliva is full of bacteria, why do animals lick their wounds? Why don't suicide bombers smuggle bombs in their rectums? Why don't stomachs digest themselves? Why is crunchy food so appealing? Can constipation kill you? Did it kill Elvis? You
sugar itself doesn't cause cavities; it's the acidic metabolites of the bacteria that feed on the sugar. As with acidic foods, saliva dilutes the acid and brings the mouth back to a neutral pH. You
Mary Roach Gulp: Adventures on the...
sugar itself doesn't cause cavities; it's the acidic metabolites of the bacteria that feed on the sugar. As with acidic foods, saliva dilutes the acid and brings the mouth back to a neutral pH. You
The other mode of defecation-associated sudden death is pulmonary embolism. The surge of blood when the person relaxes can dislodge a clot in a large blood vessel
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The other mode of defecation-associated sudden death is pulmonary embolism. The surge of blood when the person relaxes can dislodge a clot in a large blood vessel
Making matters riskier: bed pans! "The notorious frequency of sudden and unexpected deaths of patients while using bed pans in hospitals has been commented upon for many years," wrote the Cincinnati doctors. Notorious enough for a term to be coined: "bed pan death." Lying flat is as counterproductive a posture as squatting is productive. Squatting passively increases the pressure on the rectum. It does the pushing for you. It
Mary Roach Gulp: Adventures on the...
Making matters riskier: bed pans! "The notorious frequency of sudden and unexpected deaths of patients while using bed pans in hospitals has been commented upon for many years," wrote the Cincinnati doctors. Notorious enough for a term to be coined: "bed pan death." Lying flat is as counterproductive a posture as squatting is productive. Squatting passively increases the pressure on the rectum. It does the pushing for you. It
The body's response to this wild, Valsalvic seesawing of the vital signs can throw off the electrical rhythm of the heart. The resulting arrhythmia can be fatal. This is especially likely to happen in someone, like Elvis, with a compromised heart. Fatal arrhythmia is the cause of death listed on Presley's autopsy report.
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The body's response to this wild, Valsalvic seesawing of the vital signs can throw off the electrical rhythm of the heart. The resulting arrhythmia can be fatal. This is especially likely to happen in someone, like Elvis, with a compromised heart. Fatal arrhythmia is the cause of death listed on Presley's autopsy report.
I ask Nichopoulos to talk about precisely, medically, what caused Presley's death. "The night he died he was bigger than usual," he begins. Depending on how long it had been since Presley had managed to empty himself, his girth fluctuated between big and stupendous. He sometimes appeared to be gaining or losing twenty pounds from one performance to the next. "He wanted to get rid of his gut that night. He was pushing and pushing. Holding his breath." As the constipated do.
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I ask Nichopoulos to talk about precisely, medically, what caused Presley's death. "The night he died he was bigger than usual," he begins. Depending on how long it had been since Presley had managed to empty himself, his girth fluctuated between big and stupendous. He sometimes appeared to be gaining or losing twenty pounds from one performance to the next. "He wanted to get rid of his gut that night. He was pushing and pushing. Holding his breath." As the constipated do.
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