Mary Roach on Body Weirdness & Tech

0:00It's April 22nd, Kansas News Today starts now, AI powered and ready. Mary Roach is hitting Liberty Hall in Lawrence on Thursday, April 23rd, 2026, for the Public Library's Author Series. She's dropping knowledge from her new book, Replaceable You, All About Adventures in Human Anatomy, and swapping out body parts with wild tech. It's free. No tickets needed, from 7 to 9 pm, with doors opening at 6. Roach digs into the gross side of science that lives right inside us, like spit that seems nasty outside the mouth, but we're cool with it daily. She breaks down cyborg-style prosthetics, where doxdrill metal rods into bone for high-tech limbs that feel straight out of sci-fi. She wasn't always a science head, barely scraping by with required classes back in school, thinking at lack creativity. Now, she sees the wild imagination in it, chasing stories and odd spots that flip expectations. Tech researchers in Costa Rica, snipping slough hair for antibiotic battles between bugs

1:01and fungi, or folks pay to chill in bed for studies, gaming, away to the bed pan hits. Even NASA engineers crafting fake poop recipes with perfect bacteria levels to test-based toilets on zero gravity flights. Catch her live at 6.44 Massachusetts Street, talk to body weirdness that hooks us all, then grab a sign book from the Raven afterward.