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b'Not all conversation is appropriate for the dinner table \\u2013 and that includes, strangely enough, the subject of eating. Yet what happens during the time that food enters our mouth and its grand exit is a model of efficiency and adaptation.\\nAuthor Mary Roach takes us on a tour of the alimentary canal, while a researcher describes his invention of an artificial stomach. Plus, a psychologist on why we find certain foods and smells disgusting. And, you don\\u2019t eat them but they could wiggle their way within nonetheless: surgical snakebots.\\nGuests:\\n\\n\\nMary Roach \\u2013 Author, most recently, of Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal\\n\\n\\n\\nMartin Wickham \\u2013 Head of Nutrition, Leatherhead Food Research, U.K.\\n\\n\\nPaul Rozin \\u2013 Professor of psychology, University of Pennsylvania\\n\\n\\nMichael Gershon \\u2013 Professor in the Department of Pathology and Cell Biology, Columbia University Medical Center\\n\\n\\nHowie Choset \\u2013 Professor of robotics at Carnegie Mellon University\\n\\nDescripci\\xf3n en espa\\xf1ol\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices'