Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- 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 -- 26. Wiki-Science and Molière's Beast -- 27. Arts and Science: Lewis Thomas and F. Scott Fitzgerald -- 28. Icarus and Fukushima Daiichi: Human Factors in a Meltdown (Sv=1J/kg.w) -- Acknowlegments -- References -- Index.