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Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife (MP3) - 2005 [Audio Book] |
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Not Rated |
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2005 |
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480 Minutes |
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English |
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Non-Fiction |
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"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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Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife (MP3) Audio Book Details |
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Unabridged |
Year : |
2005 |
Playtime : |
480 Minutes |
Lang : |
English |
Release : |
Brilliance Audio |
Genre : |
Non-Fiction |
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NR - Not Rated |
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AudioBooks |
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