Front Cover -- Table of Contents -- INTRODUCTION -- A Quest for the Right Chemistry -- Evangelists, Mad Scientists, and Kricket Krap -- An Appeal for Chemical Literacy -- THOSE FASCINATING CHEMICALS! -- The Lot of Lot's Wife -- Basking in the Limelight -- Boyle's Law and a High-Flying Elmo -- "Der Schwarzer Berthold" -- Movies, Collars, and Billiard Balls -- Jeanetics -- John Dillinger, Fake Slush, and Counterfeit Money -- Playing with Chemicals -- Radar, Hula Hoops, and Playful Pigs -- The Great Phenol Plot -- The Rise and Fall of a Gas -- Mentioning the Unmentionables -- Some Magical Chemistry -- DOWN THE HATCH -- But It's Natural! -- Living Can Be Fatal -- An Eye-Catching Story -- Let's Have an Apple Day -- Eggspertise -- Chinese-Restaurant Syndrome -- Hot Diggety Dog -- It's Always Tea Time -- Relishing Tomatoes -- Pour the Bubbly -- Sole Food Is a Good Idea -- Soupy Science -- Soybeans, Cabbages, and Breast Cancer -- The Feet of God -- The Food of the Gods -- This Pulp Isn't Fiction -- Vegetable à la ala -- CHEMICAL CRIMES -- A Love Potion Most Lethal -- Alice in Mushroomland -- Chemical Witchcraft in Salem -- Death by Soufflé -- Mad Monks, kgb Agents, and Sleeping Dogs -- Chemistry for Zombies -- HEALTH AND DISEASE -- Sola Dosis Facit Venenum -- Anxiety about Anxiety -- Colorful Wastes -- Bee Pollen and the Office of Alternative Medicine -- Fight Crime: Eat Chalk -- Feeling No Pain -- Hormones and the Hair Challenged -- Going Nuts about Selenium -- Hype, Hope, and Ginseng -- Vitamin E Gets an A from Researchers -- The Whiff of Romance -- Van Gogh's Brain -- AROUND THE HOUSE -- Sorting Out the Suds -- A Solution to Skunk Pollution -- Coming Clean on Laundry Products -- The Little Mermaid and Optical Brighteners -- The Wrong Chemistry -- Zeolites to the Rescue -- SENSE OR NONSENSE? -- Getting a Charge out of Electrical Nonsense.

Illusion, Delusion, or Solution? -- Pop Rocks and Exploding Stomachs -- Stranger than Fiction -- Colorful Nonsense -- "Where's the Aura?" Asks Emily Rosa -- THE BOTTOM LINE -- Great Moments in Urine History -- Fart Proudly -- Le Petomane -- Some Final Views on the Nature of Science -- Index -- Back Cover.