Past Event! Note: this event has already taken place.
| When: | Thursday, October 14th, 2021 |
| Time: | 7:00 pm — 8:30 pm |
| Location: | Held via Zoom conference calling. |
| Audience: | Carleton Community, Current Students, Faculty |
Author Meets Readers invites Carleton students and the community to join an informal discussion on new books published by members of the Carleton University Faculty of Public Affairs.
About the Book: 
A New York Times Most Anticipated Book of the Summer.
A taboo-busting romp through the shame, stink, and strange science of sweating.
Sweating may be one of our weirdest biological functions, but it’s also one of our most vital and least understood. In The Joy of Sweat, Sarah Everts delves into its role in the body—and in human history.
Why is sweat salty? Why do we sweat when stressed? Why do some people produce colorful sweat? And should you worry about Big Brother tracking the hundreds of molecules that leak out in your sweat—not just the stinky ones or alleged pheromones—but the ones that reveal secrets about your health and vices?
Everts’s entertaining investigation takes readers around the world—from Moscow, where she participates in a dating event in which people sniff sweat in search of love, to New Jersey, where companies hire trained armpit sniffers to assess the efficacy of their anti-sweat products. In Finland, Everts explores the delights of the legendary smoke sauna and the purported health benefits of good sweat, while in the Netherlands she slips into the sauna theater scene, replete with costumes, special effects, and towel dancing.
Along the way, Everts traces humanity’s long quest to control sweat, culminating in the multibillion-dollar industry for deodorants and antiperspirants. And she shows that while sweating can be annoying, our sophisticated temperature control strategy is one of humanity’s most powerful biological traits.
Deeply researched and written with great zest, The Joy of Sweat is a fresh take on a gross but engrossing fact of human life.
About the Author: 
Sarah Everts joined Carleton University in 2019 after more than a decade in Berlin, Germany, where she reported on science and technology for a variety of publications including Scientific American, New Scientist, Smithsonian, Chemical & Engineering News and others. Her work has garnered several awards and accolades, such as inclusion in the 2017 Best American Science and Nature Writing anthology. Sarah has an MJ from Carleton, an MSc in chemistry from the University of British Columbia and a BSc in biophysics from the University of Guelph. Sarah’s research interests lie at the intersection of scientific innovation, policy and cultural anthropology. In other words, why are some of society’s most pressing science, health and environmental issues mired in a challenging combination of controversy, pseudoscience and legitimate uncertainty?
About the Panelist:
Matthew Pearson is a graduate of Carleton’s Master of Journalism program and spent a decade at the Ottawa Citizen, climbing the ranks from apprentice to summer intern to staff reporter and finally, to Ottawa City Hall correspondent. He built a solid reputation as a compassionate, articulate storyteller whose wide-ranging coverage probed the depths of adult literacy, teen suicide, labour unrest, gender identity, homelessness, and post-traumatic stress disorder.
This event is part of the Ottawa International Writer’s Festival.
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