
Epigenetics in the Age of Twitter
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"America's most interesting and important essayist." -Eric Kandel, Nobel Prize-winning author of The Age of Insight
"[Gerald Weissmann] bridges the space between science and the humanities, and particularly between medicine and the muses, with wit, erudition, and, most important, wisdom." -Adam Gopnik
Epigenetics, which attempts to explain how our genes respond to our environment, is the latest twist on the historic nature vs. nurture debate. In addressing this and other controversies in contemporary science, Gerald Weissmann taps what he calls "the social network of Western Civilization," including the many neglected women of science: from the martyred Hypatia of Alexandria, the first woman scientist, to the Nobel laureates Marie Curie, Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard, and Elizabeth Blackburn, among other luminaries in the field. Always instructive and often hilarious, this is a one-volume introduction to modern biology, viewed through the lens of contemporary mass media and the longer historical tradition of the Scientific Revolution. Whether engaging in the healthcare debate or imagining the future prose styling of the scientific research paper in the age of Twitter, Weissmann proves himself as an incisive cultural critic and satirist.
Gerald Weissmann (August 7, 1930 - July 10, 2019) was a physician, scientist, editor, and essayist whose collections include The Fevers of Reason: New and Selected Essays; Epigenetics in the Age of Twitter: Pop Culture and Modern Science; Mortal and Immortal DNA: Science and the Lure of Myth; and Galileo's Gout: Science in an Age of Endarkenment.
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Gerald Weissmann (August 7, 1930 - July 10, 2019) was a physician, scientist, editor, and essayist whose collections include The Fevers of Reason: New and Selected Essays; Epigenetics in the Age of Twitter: Pop Culture and Modern Science; Mortal and Immortal DNA: Science and the Lure of Myth; and Galileo's Gout: Science in an Age of Endarkenment.
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Pop Culture and Modern Science
i. Prefatory Note
1. Walter Benjamin and Biz Stone:
The Scientific Paper in the Age of Twitter
2. Epigenetics in the Adirondacks
3. A Nobel is Out of Order: "J-Lo" vs Hypatia of Alexandria
4. Epigenetics and Alma Mahler
5. Inflammation is Complicated:
From Metchnikoff to Meryl Streep
6. An Arrowsmith for the NASDAQ Era:
"Extraordinary Measures"
7. Sarah Palin and Marie-Antoinette:
Post Traumatic Tress Disorder
8. Coca Cola® and H.G.Wells:
Dietary Supplements as Subprime Drugs
9. Voodoo Economics and Voodoo Healing:
Witchcraft Persists in Massachusetts:
10. Myrna Loy: Co-Principal Investigator
11. Dr. Ehrlich and Dr. Atomic:
Beauty vs. Horror in Science
12. Free Radicals Can Kill You:
Lavoisier and the Oxygen Revolution
13. Experimental Errors:
Paul Bert and the Alabama Tenure Killings
14. Monumental Revolutions:
Scientific, Sanitary and 'Omic
15. Quorum Sensing on the Airbus Wing
16. Sicko Statistics:
Michael Moore and L'École de Paris
17. Ask Your Doctor:
Justice Holmes and the Marketplace of Ideas
18. Filter the Dogs:
Microbial Mishaps in Massachusetts
19. Pattern Recognition and Gestalt Psychology:
The Day Nüsslein-Volhard Shouted "Toll!"
20. Not by the Sword, But Disease:
Doctor Howe and General Shinseki
21. Science as Oath and Testimony:
Joshua Lederberg
22. X-ray Politics:
The Nazi War on Röntgen and Einstein
23. Wild Horses and "The Doctor's Dilemma"
24. Glass Ceilings At the Nobel Prizes
25. Medea and the Microtubule
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