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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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