![]() The leech story wasn’t meant to be-the repellent research concluded before she had a chance to see it in person. That could be a very Roach-y area,’” she says. ![]() ![]() The researchers were planning to send subjects into a river during peak leech season with one bare leg and the other covered in the repellent. But the best-selling author of books on the science of sex ( Bonk), eating ( Gulp), and death ( Stiff) specializes in, as she puts it, “turning over rocks and writing about peculiar things.” So when Roach met with researchers in India who were using ghost peppers to make a nonlethal weapon-and discovered they were also testing leech repellent for use in the military-she sensed an opportunity. She didn’t come from a military family, she never served, and she hadn’t reported on war as a journalist. ![]() Mary Roach was never especially interested in war. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |