![]() ![]() Roach samples caffeinated meat, sniffs an archival sample of a World War II stink bomb, and stays up all night with the crew tending the missiles on the nuclear submarine USS Tennessee. ![]() At Camp Lemmonier, Djibouti, in east Africa, we learn how diarrhea can be a threat to national security. She visits a repurposed movie studio where amputee actors help prepare Marine Corps medics for the shock and gore of combat wounds. Army Natick Labs and learns why a zipper is a problem for a sniper. She visits the fashion design studio of U.S. Marine Corps Paintball Team as part of a study on hearing loss and survivability in combat. Mary Roach dodges hostile fire with the U.S. ![]() Grunt tackles the science behind some of a soldier's most challenging adversaries-panic, exhaustion, heat, noise-and introduces us to the scientists who seek to conquer them. "America's funniest science writer" ( Washington Post) Mary Roach explores the science of keeping human beings intact, awake, sane, uninfected, and uninfested in the bizarre and extreme circumstances of war. ![]()
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