From the Book - Trade paperback.
Döbereiner's lighter and Berger's lamp
The Dreyfus brothers' discovery
That's the way the rubber ball bounces
"Soothing, quieting, and delightful beyond measure"
From "Swill milk" to pasteurization
Rutherford's transformations
The pitfalls of Proposition 65
Causation and correlation
Issues with the people's chemist
Bats, vampires, and longevity
Clarence Birdseye and TV dinners
Catalytic converters and crime
The battle against frizzy hair
The curse of misinformation
The father of modern medicine
James Bond and the puffer fish
Gutta-percha, walking sticks, and hickory golfers
Keep that temperature low
No, it doesn't switch my stem cells on
Those "forever" chemicals