Superfoods, Silkworms, and Spandex: Science and Pseudoscience in Everyday Life by Joe SchwarczMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
Joe Schwarcz delivers what he promises: a set of blog-post-sized considerations of the intersections between extraordinary science and ordinary daily existence. The author’s specialty is clearly chemistry, which forms the bulk (but not all) of the entries. Here and there he gets technical enough to lose readers whose familiarity with formal science education ended in high school. And his attacks on pseudoscientific con artists are obvious enough to be entertaining without being especially edifying. Overall, however, this is a fun and fascinating collection of technical trivia with a historical bent.
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