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Cheese puffs. Coffee. Sunscreen. Vapes. George Zaidan reveals what will kill you, what wont, and whyexplained with high-octane hilarity, hysterical hijinks, and other things that dont begin with the letterH.
INGREDIENTSoffers the perspective of a chemist on the stuff we eat, drink, inhale, and smear on ourselves. Apart from the burning question of whether you should eat those Cheetos, Zaidan explores a range of topics. Heres a helpful guide:
Stuff inthisbook:
- How bad is processed food? How sure are we?
- Is sunscreen safe? Should you use it?
- Is coffee good or bad for you?
- Whats your disease horoscope?
- What is that public pool smell made of?
- What happens when you overdose on fentanyl in the sun?
- What do cassava plants and Soviet spies have in common?
- When will you die?
Stuff in other books:
- Your carbon footprint
- Food sustainability
- GMOs
- CEO pay
- Science funding
- Politics
- Football
- Baseball
- Any kind of ball, real
Zaidan, an MIT-trained chemist who cohosted CNBCs hitMake Me a Millionaire Inventorand wrote and voiced several TED-Ed viral videos, makes chemistry more fun than Hogwarts as he reveals exactly what science can (and cant) tell us about the packaged ingredients sold to us every day. Sugar, spinach, formaldehyde, cyanide, the ingredients of life and death, and how we know if something is good or