Dr. Joe's Brain Sparks
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Introduction
 
Chemistry: The Best Medicine
Let’s Motor!
The Embodiment of Science
Chemical Warfare
Alternative (to?) Medicine
Science Maketh the Clothes
On Your Metal
Science to the Rescue
History Department
Medicine Cabinet of Curiosities
Illicit Substances
The Beauty Pages
Domestic Science
Animal Pharmacy
What’s Your Toxin?
Burning Issues
Drinking Problems
Consumer Issues
Colour Supplement
Unusual Science
It Is Rocket Science
 
Index

About the Author

DR. JOE SCHWARCZ is director of McGill University's Office of Science and Society, where he teaches courses on nutrition and the applications of chemistry to everyday life. Among his many honours are the Royal Society of Canada's McNeil Award, and the American Chemistry Society's renowned Grady-Stack Award, of which he is the only non-American recipient. Schwarcz is the host of a weekly radio show on CFRB in Toronto and CJAD in Montreal, and writes a weekly column for the Montreal Gazette.

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"Packed with scientific answers to questions you didn't even know you had."
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