STOMACH CRAMPS
One book rocked the food industry, politics, and American stomachs all in one fell swoop.
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Deborah Blum is director of the Knight Science Journalism Program at MIT, and editor of Undark magazine. Her latest book is The Poison Squad: One Chemist's Single-Minded Crusade for Food Safety at the Turn of the Twentieth Century (Penguin Press).
NO JOKE
Before Nobel Prize-winning biologist Tim Hunt cast off his sexist comments as an ‘attempt at humor,’ he told his co-panelist something else entirely.