Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife

Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife

The best-selling author of Stiff and Bonk trains her considerable wit and curiosity on the human soul. "What happens when we die? Does the light just go out and that's that―the million-year nap? Or…

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