A Feast of Science: Intriguing Morsels from the Science of Everyday Life
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Crave answers?Β A Feast of ScienceΒ demystifies the chemistry of everyday life, serving up practical knowledge to both inform and entertain. Guaranteed to satiate your hunger for palatable and relevant scientific information, Dr. Joe Schwarcz proves that βchemicalβ is not necessarily synonymous with βtoxic.β Are there fish genes in tomatoes? Can snail-slime cream and bone broth really make your wrinkles disappear? Whatβs the problem with sugar, resistant starch, hops in beer, microbeads, and βsecretβ cancer cures? Are βnaturalβ products the key to good health? And what is βfake newsβ all about? Dr. Joe answers these questions and more. Cutting through the fat of story, suggestion, and social-media speculation,Β A Feast of ScienceΒ gets to the meat of the chemical reactions that make up our daily lives.
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Dr. Joe Schwarcz is the director of the Office for Science and Society at McGill University in Montreal. He hosts a popular radio show, has made hundreds of television appearances, is a longtime columnist for the Montreal Gazette, and is the author of 16 bestsellers. Well known for his informative and entertaining lectures on topics ranging from the chemistry of love to the science of aging, Dr. Joe has received numerous awards for teaching and deciphering scienceΒ for the public.
