Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife

Written by:
Mary Roach
Narrated by:
Bernadette Quigley

Unabridged Audiobook

Ratings
Book
5
Narrator
3
Release Date
October 2005
Duration
8 hours 31 minutes
Summary
“What happens when we die? Does the light just go out and that’s that—the million-year nap? Or will some part of my personality, my me-ness persist? What will that feel like? What will I do all day? Is there a place to plug in my laptop?”In an attempt to find out, Mary Roach brings her tireless curiosity to bear on an array of contemporary and historical soul-searchers: scientists, schemers, engineers, mediums, all trying to prove (or disprove) that life goes on after we die. She begins the journey in rural India with a reincarnation researcher and ends up in a University of Virginia operating room where cardiologists have installed equipment near the ceiling to study out-of-body near-death experiences. Along the way, she enrolls in an English medium school, gets electromagnetically haunted at a university in Ontario, and visits a Duke University professor with a plan to weigh the consciousness of a leech. Her historical wanderings unearth soul-seeking philosophers who rummaged through cadavers and calves’ heads, a North Carolina lawsuit that established legal precedence for ghosts, and the last surviving sample of “ectoplasm” in a Cambridge University archive.
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mary reynolds

Should be called ms negativity meets anything, she is a fine writer but her sole purpose in just about everything is to make fun/ put down others. So if that howard stern/Seinfeld type of thing is entertaining then you should like this

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