By Gerald Weissmann
Pop tradition meets state of the art technological know-how during this one-volume advent to the heritage of technological know-how and glossy biology.
“[Weissmann] has emerged within the final 3 a long time as America’s finest and critical essayist. He has completed this prestige either epigenetically and during Twitter, notice of mouth, as a way to communicate. . . . very similar to Susan Sontag, Weissmann likes being a modern, and doesn't suppose shackled by way of culture. . . . This ebook is a pleasure for the guts and instructive for the mind.” —ERIC KANDEL, Nobel Laureate and writer of In seek of Memory
“Only a brain as nimble and good traveled as Gerald Weissmann’s might see, by no means brain make and expound on, the connections among salamanders and Prohibition . . . white blood cells, Hollywood and erectile disorder . . . well-being care reform and Marie Antoinette . . . micro organism, the equivalent Rights modification and the “Miracle at the Hudson.” higher but, Weissmann does so with wit and perception. a desirable journey via heritage, technology and dad culture.” —MAX GOMEZ, MD, Emmy Award-winning WCBS-TV scientific Correspondent
“Erudite strength leaps from this full of life commingling of paintings, tradition and technological know-how. . . . In every one [essay], Weissmann reveals hyperlinks among study and components of heritage and pa tradition, which play off one another to illuminating influence. So US baby-kisser Sarah Palin pops up in a dialogue of ‘Marie Antoinette syndrome’. . . and the ‘meltdown’ of the legendary Icarus meets the nuclear model on the Fukushima Daiichi energy plant in Japan.” —Nature
Epigenetics, which makes an attempt to give an explanation for how our genes reply to the environment, is the newest twist at the historical nature vs. nurture debate. In addressing this and different controversies in modern technological know-how, Gerald Weissmann faucets what he calls “the social community of Western Civilization,” together with the various missed ladies of technology: from the martyred Hypatia of Alexandria, the 1st lady scientist, to the Nobel laureates Marie Curie, Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard, and Elizabeth Blackburn, between different luminaries within the box. consistently instructive and sometimes hilarious, this can be a one-volume creation to trendy biology, seen throughout the lens of today’s mass media and the longer historic culture of the medical Revolution. no matter if conducting the healthcare debate or imagining the long run prose styling of the clinical study paper within the age of Twitter, Weissmann proves to be one in all our such a lot incisive cultural critics and satirists.
Gerald Weissmann is director of the Biotechnology learn middle on the ny college college of medication and editor-in-chief of the FASEB Journal. His essays and stories have seemed in different courses around the globe, together with the London evaluate of Books and New York occasions e-book Review.
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