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A feast of science : intriguing morsels from the science of everyday life / / Dr. Joe Schwarcz
| A feast of science : intriguing morsels from the science of everyday life / / Dr. Joe Schwarcz |
| Autore | Schwarcz Joe |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Toronto : , : ECW, , [2018] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (338 pages) |
| Soggetto topico | Science |
| ISBN | 1-77305-134-2 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910796882803321 |
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A feast of science : intriguing morsels from the science of everyday life / / Dr. Joe Schwarcz
| A feast of science : intriguing morsels from the science of everyday life / / Dr. Joe Schwarcz |
| Autore | Schwarcz Joe |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Toronto : , : ECW, , [2018] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (338 pages) |
| Soggetto topico | Science |
| ISBN | 1-77305-134-2 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910814228303321 |
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| Toronto : , : ECW, , [2018] | ||
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Quack Quack : The Threat of Pseudoscience
| Quack Quack : The Threat of Pseudoscience |
| Autore | Schwarcz Joe |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Toronto : , : ECW Press, , 2022 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (257 pages) |
| Disciplina | 615.8/56 |
| Soggetto non controllato |
Self-Care, Health
Biology Chemistry Health & Fitness Science |
| ISBN |
9781778520235
9781770416581 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Front Cover -- Praise for Science Goes Viral -- Also by Dr. Joe Schwarcz -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction -- Quack Quack -- Pseudoscience -- Snake Oil -- Spirits of Salt -- Medicine Shows -- Modernizing Mountebanks -- Poking into the Puke Weed Doctor -- The Chew-Chew and Do-Do Man -- Insert Yogurt Where? -- Dinshah and the Spectro-Chrome -- Electroquackery -- The Prince of Humbug -- McFadden and Physical Culture -- Getting Steinached -- The Dean of Quacks -- Cold Showers and Warm Baths -- A Rabbit out of a Hat -- Rudolf Steiner and Anthroposophy -- Perkins Tractors -- Iridology and Craniosacral therapy -- Alkaline Nonsense -- Spoon-Bending Fiasco -- Quack Products -- Believing the Unbelievable -- Encountering a "Healer" -- Forceful Sole Searching -- Ear Candles -- Alpha Spin Can Make Your Head Spin -- Email Warnings -- Health Food Store Follies -- Jilly Juice -- Cancer and Carny Tricks -- Trepanation -- Borba's Nonsense -- The Gerson Folly -- Miracle Mineral Solution Is a Nightmare -- Brace Yourself -- No Magic in Quack Cancer Treatments -- The Detox Scam -- Yikes! I'm Infested! -- Graviola Poppycock -- The Healing Code -- Getting Down to Earth -- Cure Your Arthritis . . . Really? -- The Saga of Uri Geller -- I'll Pass on Autourine Therapy -- Moonbeams -- Natural Fallacies -- The Curious "Science" of Oscillococcinum -- Popeye's Folly -- Breatharians and Nutritarians -- Bitterness about Sugar -- A Look at Braco the Gazer -- ------ -- Celebrities and Cerebral Claptrap -- The Myth of "Detox" -- Double Helix Water -- Dunning-Kruger -- Medical Medium -- Fitting Square Pegs into Round Holes -- Bee Pollen and the Office of Alternative Medicine -- Spoonk -- Sylvia Browne -- The Water Revitalizer -- Where's the Aura, Asks Young Emily Rosa -- Infomercials Provide Slanted Science -- Diagnosing Pathological Science.
Putting Pimat's Health Claims to bed -- Chemical-Free Is Not a Good Deal -- Jamie Oliver Cooks Up Some Nonsense -- A Treatment for Chemophobia -- Raw Water -- "The People's Chemist" -- Alternative Medicine -- Some Views on Dealing with Information and Misinformation -- Index -- Back Cover. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910886178403321 |
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| Toronto : , : ECW Press, , 2022 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Science goes viral : captivating accounts of science in everyday life / / Dr. Joe Schwarcz
| Science goes viral : captivating accounts of science in everyday life / / Dr. Joe Schwarcz |
| Autore | Schwarcz Joe |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Toronto : , : ECW Press, , 2021 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xiv, 250 pages) |
| Soggetto topico | Science - Popular works |
| ISBN |
9781773058092
1-77305-809-6 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Part I: The Virus Strikes -- Down the Toilet -- Charlie Chaplin, Dr. Tuttle, and the Spanish Flu -- Pangs about the Pangolin -- The Science of Epidemiology -- Singing Happy Birthday Is No Longer Only for Birthdays -- Oh My, Miasma -- Boosting Immunity -- From Variolation to Vaccination -- A Vaccination Triumph -- COVID Vaccines, Here We Come! -- Here Is the Message about Messenger RNA -- Musing about Mutation -- Sharks and Vaccines -- The Dry Ice Story Is Anything but Dry -- The Bitter Saga of Quinine -- Throwing Light on Ultraviolet Light -- Hyperbaric Chambers and COVID -- Corona Aerosols -- The Fascinating History of Dexamethasone -- Brazilian Pit Vipers, Blood Pressure, and COVID-19 -- Zapping COVID with Copper? -- Nonsense Was Quick to Emerge as Virus Gripped the World -- Seinfeld and the Coronavirus -- Part II: There Is Science Beyond COVID -- Chemistry - The Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Science -- Good Science Is No Laughing Matter -- A Musical Memory of Plexiglas -- There Is More to the Placenta Than the Mother-Embryo Connection -- Science Fiction, Science Fact -- The Legend of Johnny Appleseed -- Treading Gingerly on Ginger -- Gorilla Glue Makes for a Bad Hair Day -- Brushing Up on Hair Dyes -- Jean Harlow's Hair -- Oh, the Dread of Red M&Ms -- Mysteries, Magic, and Thyroid Disease -- Lice, Typhus, and Napoleon -- Navalny and Novichok -- Natural or Synthetic? -- Time to Smell the Roses -- Lego Chemistry -- Cheers to the Discoverer of Wine Disease -- Dirty Bombs and Prussian Blue -- A Shocking Catastrophe in Beirut -- The Story of Vodka -- Graduating to Bioplastics -- Spirits of Salt -- Unearthing a Giant Hoax -- Bisphenol A and My SocksMy -- Turning Up the Heat on Thermal Paper Receipts -- Shining a Light on the Importance of Darkness.
A Biblical Dye -- Intermittent Fasting -- Recycling Polystyrene -- Superabsorbent Polymers Really Suck It Up -- Arsenic, the King of Poisons, Poison of Kings -- Arsenic in Fact and Fiction -- Wig Power -- Plants and Hospitals -- Chalk It Up -- Omega-3 Questions -- The Spy Who Went Out into the Cold -- Elderberry Plusses and Minuses -- Tarantulas and the Dancing Plague -- Powering Your Cell Phone -- Lincoln's Magician -- Slowing Down the Clock -- King Tut's Tomb -- Up in Smoke -- Kambo -- Mustard Gas and Chemotherapy -- Want a Date? -- Fluoride and IQ -- The Science and Pseudoscience of Essential Oils -- Bug Juice -- The Crazy Story of Locoweed -- Toxicity of Nicotine Is Nothing to Sneeze At -- Trehalose and C. Difficile -- Seaweed and Its Surprising Subplots -- Burgers from Plants -- Can Fluorinated Compounds Shrink Penises? -- From Dry Cleaning to Saran Wrap -- Chlorinated Chicken -- Quack Quack -- Alpha Spin Makes Your Head Spin -- False Claims and Conspiracy Theories -- Turning the Tables on the Table Turners -- Finale: Always Wear Underwear. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910794790603321 |
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Schwarcz Joe
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| Toronto : , : ECW Press, , 2021 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Science goes viral : captivating accounts of science in everyday life / / Dr. Joe Schwarcz
| Science goes viral : captivating accounts of science in everyday life / / Dr. Joe Schwarcz |
| Autore | Schwarcz Joe |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Toronto : , : ECW Press, , 2021 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xiv, 250 pages) |
| Disciplina | 616.2414 |
| Soggetto topico | Science - Popular works |
| ISBN |
9781773058092
1-77305-809-6 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Part I: The Virus Strikes -- Down the Toilet -- Charlie Chaplin, Dr. Tuttle, and the Spanish Flu -- Pangs about the Pangolin -- The Science of Epidemiology -- Singing Happy Birthday Is No Longer Only for Birthdays -- Oh My, Miasma -- Boosting Immunity -- From Variolation to Vaccination -- A Vaccination Triumph -- COVID Vaccines, Here We Come! -- Here Is the Message about Messenger RNA -- Musing about Mutation -- Sharks and Vaccines -- The Dry Ice Story Is Anything but Dry -- The Bitter Saga of Quinine -- Throwing Light on Ultraviolet Light -- Hyperbaric Chambers and COVID -- Corona Aerosols -- The Fascinating History of Dexamethasone -- Brazilian Pit Vipers, Blood Pressure, and COVID-19 -- Zapping COVID with Copper? -- Nonsense Was Quick to Emerge as Virus Gripped the World -- Seinfeld and the Coronavirus -- Part II: There Is Science Beyond COVID -- Chemistry - The Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Science -- Good Science Is No Laughing Matter -- A Musical Memory of Plexiglas -- There Is More to the Placenta Than the Mother-Embryo Connection -- Science Fiction, Science Fact -- The Legend of Johnny Appleseed -- Treading Gingerly on Ginger -- Gorilla Glue Makes for a Bad Hair Day -- Brushing Up on Hair Dyes -- Jean Harlow's Hair -- Oh, the Dread of Red M&Ms -- Mysteries, Magic, and Thyroid Disease -- Lice, Typhus, and Napoleon -- Navalny and Novichok -- Natural or Synthetic? -- Time to Smell the Roses -- Lego Chemistry -- Cheers to the Discoverer of Wine Disease -- Dirty Bombs and Prussian Blue -- A Shocking Catastrophe in Beirut -- The Story of Vodka -- Graduating to Bioplastics -- Spirits of Salt -- Unearthing a Giant Hoax -- Bisphenol A and My SocksMy -- Turning Up the Heat on Thermal Paper Receipts -- Shining a Light on the Importance of Darkness.
A Biblical Dye -- Intermittent Fasting -- Recycling Polystyrene -- Superabsorbent Polymers Really Suck It Up -- Arsenic, the King of Poisons, Poison of Kings -- Arsenic in Fact and Fiction -- Wig Power -- Plants and Hospitals -- Chalk It Up -- Omega-3 Questions -- The Spy Who Went Out into the Cold -- Elderberry Plusses and Minuses -- Tarantulas and the Dancing Plague -- Powering Your Cell Phone -- Lincoln's Magician -- Slowing Down the Clock -- King Tut's Tomb -- Up in Smoke -- Kambo -- Mustard Gas and Chemotherapy -- Want a Date? -- Fluoride and IQ -- The Science and Pseudoscience of Essential Oils -- Bug Juice -- The Crazy Story of Locoweed -- Toxicity of Nicotine Is Nothing to Sneeze At -- Trehalose and C. Difficile -- Seaweed and Its Surprising Subplots -- Burgers from Plants -- Can Fluorinated Compounds Shrink Penises? -- From Dry Cleaning to Saran Wrap -- Chlorinated Chicken -- Quack Quack -- Alpha Spin Makes Your Head Spin -- False Claims and Conspiracy Theories -- Turning the Tables on the Table Turners -- Finale: Always Wear Underwear. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910825825903321 |
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Schwarcz Joe
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| Toronto : , : ECW Press, , 2021 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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