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Each of the 5 sources I have chosen contain a specific purpose and meaning towards my research. They are the tools I will use to craft an informative article pertaining to the quirky research methods of Mary Roach. They each have to do with a research endeavour Mary Roach has taken to create her literary works, which contain many best-sellers and award winners, so it is interesting to see how these great works began.

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In order to understand Antarctic warming, Roach joined environmental photojournalist and writer Gary Braasch on a trip to Antarctica. They braved severe waves and winds to join a research team that was taking samples of Antarctic sediment in order to learn about ancient climate patterns and track ancient ice movement. And to find those answers, they must go back and look at what was happening with temperatures hundreds to thousands of years ago. One way to do that is by studying long-buried, centuries-old marine sediment which is literally mud from the ocean floor. Given the extreme conditions, this is a good example of Mary Roach's method of joining researchers and scientists in the field to see what their work is like. In order to gain insight towards one of her quirkier publishments Roach partakes in sex research in many various settings and experimentation. She has been involved in studying the arousal and orgasm of the dead, pig insemination, and studying coital imaging. In one of the experiments studied a pig is stimulated by a human being and fertilized to analyze whether sexual stimulation has an effect on the number of offspring produced. Most notably, an investigation involving how researchers study coital imaging, she volunteers to enter an M.R.I. machine with her husband, Ed, and join what she describes as “the 20-Inch High Club.” As part of this process the two must hold still for several seconds, like Victorians posing for a tintype in order for Mary Roach to understand how the science of coital poisitioning is conducted. This article aims to depict Mary Roach's highly unique stance on all things sexual consisting of genital transplants, orgasmic corpses, furtive sexuality in Egypt and the bizarre business of fertility treatment. She has developed many theories and facts about sex based on her highly controversial research methods. Mary Roach's fascination with the journey food takes through our body led her into deep scientific research of the human digestive system. Working with sensory analyst Sue Langstoff, she learns the methods of taste-testing beer for trace amounts of impurities such as chlorine used to clean beer producing machines. She uncovers digestive mysteries of the past by talking to seniors, such as Elvis's physician who is now in his 80s. A genetic nerve defect associated with his colon was scientifically theorized as the responsible cause of his death because it hampered his body's digestive system. Her broad array of research topics portray Mary Roach's scope of research methods. Mary Roach teams up with meteorite hunter and space enthusiast Ralph Harvey to examine the piece of debris for clues about it's past and origins dating back 4.5 billion years. She describes the complex process in which meteorites are flung from space, and are preserved naturally in polar regions of the world. Meteorites are hurdled into the soft exteriors of arctic snow and begin to compact due to the pressure of the snow to form ice. This ice creates a protective barrier which put the meteorite in preserved state, much like cryostasis. She braves severe arctic conditions and learns that while doing the research it combines multiple sciences such as crime scene research and geographical tracking. Her research methods in this article describe a type of intense and fruitful learning experience as well. Mary Roach travels to Wageningen in the Netherlands to visit the Food Valley to investigate a community of 15,000 scientists working to improve the quality of food in our meals. Studying closely with neuromuscular expert, Dr Van der Bilt they analyze the jaws ability to chew and even protect the mouth through its complex muscular and neural network. Furthermore she learns much about the anatomical systems that take place in the mouth. Each parts works in conjunction with one another to create movements that allow for digestion and safe passage of food. Dr Van der Bilt also does extensive research on a particular part of the human digestive system known as the Bolus. The Bolus provides an interesting piece of information that has many unobserved applications to the digestive system. Dr Van der Bilt takes its importance to another level by documenting "intraoral bolus rolling" and employing the Lucas formula to calculate bolus cohesiveness by figuring out the viscosity and surface tension of the moistening saliva as well as the radius between chewed food particles. The bolus primarily functions to Mary Roach's focus on highly unnoticed aspects of science as her research displays the importance of the unknown.

Research methods
Throughout her extensive research done to attain information on her various publications Roach has developed very interesting research methods. She has joined environmental photojournalist and writer Gary Braasch on a trip to Antarctica to uncover clues about global warming. . To study the reproductive effect of sexual arousal on pigs she studied a pig researcher's experimentation techniques in order to identify if there was a positive correlation between stimulation and quantity of offspring. A highly gutsy move, she volunteered herself and her husband in an MRI coital imaging experiment to study the effects of cuddling. . Working with sensory analyst Sue Langstoff she studied beer taste-testing methods used in detecting impurities. All the way up in polar regions of the world she has followed meteorite hunter, Ralph Harvey, to study space debris and uncover clues about their space origins. She has also consulted neuromuscular expert, Dr Van der Bilt, to analyze the jaws' complex ability to breakdown food and protect the mouth whilst chewing. food.

=Jon Scalzi Non-Fiction= In the past decade, Scalzi has written a series of non-fiction books. The first, published in late October 2000, is The Rough Guide to Money Online, featured tips on online financial tools, followed in May 2003 by The Rough Guide to the Universe, an astronomy book aimed toward novice-to-intermediate stargazers. His third book, The Rough guide to Sci-Fi Movies, released in October 2005, covers the history of science fiction films and adds a list of the 50 most important science fiction films. Scalzi also authored the "Book of the Dumb" series from portable press, which chronicles people doing stupid things, released in October 2003 and in 2004. In November 2005, Scalzi began to compile posts from his blog Whatever into two books from subterranean press, You're Not Fooling Anyone When You Take Your Laptop to a Coffee Shop: Scalzi on Writing; released February 2007, and Your Hate Mail Will Be Graded: A Decade of Whatever 1998 - 2008, released September 2008, which won the Hugo Award for Best Related Book in 2009.