Includes index.

Introduction -- Breathe and burn -- Bees and bananas -- It's on fire! -- Nylon pros and cons -- Döbereiner's lighter and Berger's lamp -- The Dreyfus brothers' discovery -- Smuggling margarine -- That's the way the rubber ball bounces -- Antibiotic concerns -- Superfoods and superhype -- Biobased and biobunk -- Pickled Athletes -- Fascinating fiberglass -- "Soothing, quieting, and delightful beyond measure" -- From "Swill milk" to pasteurization -- Frying with water -- A legendary neon sign -- The third man -- Rutherford's transformations -- Science in the movies -- The big Nickel -- Tin Pan Alley -- Valentine's meat juice -- The shot tower -- Aconite murder -- The pitfalls of Proposition 65 -- Red light therapy -- The Leidenfrost Effect -- An experiment on a bird -- Causation and correlation -- Cucumbers and plastics -- Uncle Fester -- Inflammation information -- Wine and health -- Problems with Palm Oil -- Issues with the people's chemist -- Bats, vampires, and longevity -- Hitler and probiotics -- Molecules and mirrors -- Clarence Birdseye and TV dinners -- Diamonds! -- Head transplants -- Organocatalysis -- The bark that cures -- Scho-ka-kola -- Expanding on Spandex -- Swarovski crystals -- Catalytic converters and crime -- Fill 'er up-with hydrogen -- The battle against frizzy hair -- The curse of misinformation -- Space tourism -- The father of modern medicine -- James Bond and the puffer fish -- Gutta-percha, walking sticks, and hickory golfers -- John Dee and 007 -- Maraschino cherries -- Keep that temperature low -- The yellow school bus -- No, it doesn't switch my stem cells on -- The truth is out there -- Dental implants -- It stinks! -- Those "forever" chemicals -- Silkworm poo -- Oxygen on Mars -- Bull testes -- But it's natural! -- Graphene! -- Duct tape -- Porcelain and alchemy -- Lead-it really is toxic -- Oh, that old book smell! -- Roots of French wine -- Let's play chess.