Ologies with Alie Ward · 2025-09-17 · 58 min · 10,135 words

Human Technomorphology (SWAPPING OUT BODY PARTS) with Mary Roach

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Oh hey, it's last year's calendar. You don't know if you should throw away Allie Ward. And this is a very special episode of Oligies that I know. So many of you. right now are losing your damn minds, friends. I'm right there with you. Wow, over the last twenty years this guest has written so many

New York Times. Best sellers. It's a labor. to list them all, but I will because they're glorious books. So you may know these titles. Stiff the Curious Lives of Human Cadavers, Spook Science tackles the afterlife. Bonk, the curious coupling of science and sex, packing for Mars, the curious science of life in the void.

Gulp? Adventures on the Elementary Canal. Grunt the curious science of humans at war. And fuzz. When nature breaks the law.

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