Epigenetics in the age of twitter : pop culture and modern science / Gerald Weissmann.

New York : Bellevue Literary Press, 2012.

256 pages ; 23 cm

Includes bibliographical references (p. 208-244) and index.

Walter Benjamin and Biz Stone: the scientific paper in the age of Twitter -- Epigenetics in the Adirondacks -- A Nobel is out of order: "J.Lo" vs. Hypatia of Alexandria -- Epigenetics and Alma Mahler -- Inflammation is complicated: from Metchnikoff to Meryl Streep -- An Arrowsmith for the NASDAQ era: Extraordinary measures -- Sarah Palin and Marie-Antoinette: post-traumatic tress disorder -- Coca-Cola and H.G. Wells: dietary supplements as subprime drugs -- Voodoo economics and voodoo healing: witchcraft persists in Massachusetts -- Myrna Loy: co-principal investigator -- Dr. Ehrlich and Dr. Atomic: beauty vs. horror in science -- Free radicals can kill you: Lavoisier and the oxygen revolution -- Experimental errors: Paul Bert and the Alabama tenure killings -- Monumental revolutions: scientific, sanitary, and 'omic -- Quorum sensing on the Airbus wing -- SiCKO statistics: Michael Moore and L'École de Paris -- Ask your doctor: Justice Holmes and the marketplace of ideas -- Filter the dogs: microbial mishaps in Massachusetts -- Pattern recognition and Gestalt psychology: the day Nüsslein-Volhard shouted "Toll!" -- Not by the sword, but disease: Doctor Howe and General Shinseki -- Science as oath and testimony: Joshua Lederberg -- X-ray politics: the Nazi war on Röntgen and Einstein -- Wild horses and The doctor's dilemma -- Glass ceilings at the Nobel Prizes -- Medea and the microtubule -- Wiki-science and Molière's beast -- Arts and science: Lewis Thomas and F. Scott Fitzgerald -- Icarus and Fukushima Daiichi: human factors in a meltdown (Sv=1J/kg.w).