Epigenetics in the Age of Twitter: Pop Culture and Modern Science

by Weissmann, Gerald

• ISBN13: 9781934137390
• ISBN10: 1934137391
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-03-06
• Publisher: Consortium Book Sales & Dist

Summary

Pop culture meets cutting-edge science in this one-volume introduction to the history of science and modern biology.

Author Biography

Gerald Weissmann is director of the Biotechnology Study Center at the New York University School of Medicine and editor-in-chief of The FASEB Journal. His essays and reviews have appeared in numerous publications worldwide, including the London Review of Books and The New York Times Book Review.

Table of Contents

Prefatory Note	p. 11
Walter Benjamin and Biz Stone: The Scientific Paper in the Age of Twiner	p. 15
Epigenetics in the Adirondack	p. 22
A Nobel Is Out of Order: "J-Lo" vs. Hypatia of Alexandria	p. 30
Epigenetics and Alma Mahler	p. 37
Inflammation Is Complicated: From Metchnikoff to Meryl Streep	p. 44
An Arrowsmith for the NASDAQ Era: Extraordinary Measures	p. 50
Sarah Palin and Marie-Antoinette: Post-Traumatic Tress Disorder	p. 57
Coca-Cola and H. G. Wells: Dietary Supplements as Subprime Drugs	p. 63
Voodoo Economics and Voodoo Healing: Witchcraft Persists in Massachusetts	p. 70
Myrna Loy: Co-Principal Investigator	p. 77
Dr. Ehrlich and Dr. Atomic: Beauty vs. Horror in Science	p. 83
Free Radicals Can Kill You: Lavoisier and the Oxygen Revolution	p. 90
Experimental Errors: Paul Bert and the Alabama Tenure Killings	p. 96
Monumental Revolutions: Scientific, Sanitary and 'Omic	p. 103
Quorum Sensing on the Airbus Wing	p. 111
SiCKO Statistics: Michael Moore and L'École de Paris	p. 118
Ask Your Doctor: Justice Holmes and the Marketplace of Ideas	p. 126
Filter the Dogs: Microbial Mishaps in Massachusetts	p. 133
Pattern Recognition and Gestalt Psychology: The Day Nüsslein-Volhard Shouted "Toll!"	p. 140
Not by the Sword, but Disease: Doctor Howe and General Shinseki	p. 147
Science as Oath and Testimony: Joshua Lederberg	p. 154
X-ray Politics: The Nazi War on Rontgen and Einstein	p. 162
Wild Horses and The Doctor's Dilemma	p. 168
Glass Ceilings at the Nobel Prizes	p. 175
Medea and the Microtubule	p. 182
Wiki-Science and Molière's Beast	p. 188
Arts and Science: Lewis Thomas and E Scott Fitzgerald	p. 194
Icarus and Fukushima Daiichi: Human Factors in a Meltdown (Sv=1J/kg.w)	p. 201
Acknowlegments	p. 207
References	p. 208
Index	p. 245
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