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The fly in the ointment : 70 fascinating commentaries on the science of everyday life / Joe Schwarcz.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Toronto : ECW Press, c2004.Description: 297 p. : ill. ; 21 cmISBN:
  • 1550226215 (pbk.) :
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 500 22
LOC classification:
  • Q173 .S38 2004
Contents:
HEALTH ISSUES -- Lies, damned lies, and statistics -- Framed, wild, or canned? -- DDT: A double-edged sword -- Feeding the hungry -- Say "cheese" -- The teflon scare -- Weeding out the pesticide myths -- Paralysis through analysis -- Bottle or tap? -- Waxing lyrical about fruit wax -- The challenge of menopause -- Carpets and chemical sensitivities -- Adventures in the health food store -- The mystery of Alzheimer's disease -- Going through a phase -- Russian spies and sick turkeys -- The strange case of the stinky man -- High on protein -- Mad honey -- When sugar isn't so sweet -- Sugar-free kisses -- For the love of broccoli -- I'm a bread and propionates man -- Put garlic where? -- Dietary supplements: to take or not to take? -- What's in a vitamin name? -- Toxic e-mail -- Natural or synthetic? -- Count your way to good health.
SOME NEAT CHEMISTRY -- Wondrous tricks and bad smells -- Sex and scents -- From "yuck" to "yum" -- Nibbling on glass -- Bad science, bad justice -- Santa's mushrooms -- There's no viagra in niagara -- The wonders of polyester -- Pay dirt! -- A galling tale of vitriol and murder -- The right alchemy: Harry Potter and Nicolas Flamel -- The Swedish blonds who turned green -- Saving lives with Kevlar -- Kiss and makeup -- Hard-water woes -- Look at those cow chips fly! -- Frenzied males and virgin females -- Munching on a chemist .
ONCE UPON A TIME -- It started with a bang -- Taking the fuzzy out of fizz -- Take a bromide! -- Clam down -- A poison eater who just said, "no" -- You're feeling sle-e-e-epy -- Molecules and mirrors -- The lunatics -- Heady times at the bakery -- Newton and Mercury -- Frog legs and a giant leap -- Animal, vegetable, or mineral? -- Horror film -- Absinthe makes the tart grow fonder -- Pain isn't a laughing matter.
BALONEY! -- Plain baloney -- A hole in the head: screwy science -- The quirks of quartz -- The sad story of a little angel -- coral calcium on the brain -- Dead water and living quackery -- Great movie, junk science -- Bursting the oxygen bubble.
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Includes index.

HEALTH ISSUES -- Lies, damned lies, and statistics -- Framed, wild, or canned? -- DDT: A double-edged sword -- Feeding the hungry -- Say "cheese" -- The teflon scare -- Weeding out the pesticide myths -- Paralysis through analysis -- Bottle or tap? -- Waxing lyrical about fruit wax -- The challenge of menopause -- Carpets and chemical sensitivities -- Adventures in the health food store -- The mystery of Alzheimer's disease -- Going through a phase -- Russian spies and sick turkeys -- The strange case of the stinky man -- High on protein -- Mad honey -- When sugar isn't so sweet -- Sugar-free kisses -- For the love of broccoli -- I'm a bread and propionates man -- Put garlic where? -- Dietary supplements: to take or not to take? -- What's in a vitamin name? -- Toxic e-mail -- Natural or synthetic? -- Count your way to good health.

SOME NEAT CHEMISTRY -- Wondrous tricks and bad smells -- Sex and scents -- From "yuck" to "yum" -- Nibbling on glass -- Bad science, bad justice -- Santa's mushrooms -- There's no viagra in niagara -- The wonders of polyester -- Pay dirt! -- A galling tale of vitriol and murder -- The right alchemy: Harry Potter and Nicolas Flamel -- The Swedish blonds who turned green -- Saving lives with Kevlar -- Kiss and makeup -- Hard-water woes -- Look at those cow chips fly! -- Frenzied males and virgin females -- Munching on a chemist .

ONCE UPON A TIME -- It started with a bang -- Taking the fuzzy out of fizz -- Take a bromide! -- Clam down -- A poison eater who just said, "no" -- You're feeling sle-e-e-epy -- Molecules and mirrors -- The lunatics -- Heady times at the bakery -- Newton and Mercury -- Frog legs and a giant leap -- Animal, vegetable, or mineral? -- Horror film -- Absinthe makes the tart grow fonder -- Pain isn't a laughing matter.

BALONEY! -- Plain baloney -- A hole in the head: screwy science -- The quirks of quartz -- The sad story of a little angel -- coral calcium on the brain -- Dead water and living quackery -- Great movie, junk science -- Bursting the oxygen bubble.

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