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Best Of Nancy's Bookshelf: Mary Roach

By Nancy Wiegman,
Matt Fidler
Published May 6, 2020 at 10:33 AM PDT
Scope Blog - Stanford University

Award-winning investigative journalist Mary Roach writes humorously about weird science. In her book Grunt, the best-selling New York Times author examines the curious science of humans at war. Listen to a classic episode!

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Nancy Wiegman
Nancy Wiegman has a master's degree in French linguistics from Indiana University and taught yoga and foreign languages at CSU Fresno and the College of Charleston before moving to Chico in 1990.
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Matt Fidler
Matt Fidler is a producer and sound designer with over 15 years’ experience producing nationally distributed public radio programs. He has worked for shows such as Freakonomics Radio, Selected Shorts, Studio 360, The New Yorker Radio Hour and The Takeaway. In 2017, Matt launched the language podcast Very Bad Words, hitting the #28 spot in the iTunes podcast charts.
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