{
  "id": "sam-kean-the-disappearing-spoon-and-other-true-tales-of-madness-love-and-14955",
  "type": "article-journal",
  "title": "Sam Kean. The Disappearing Spoon, and Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements",
  "author": [
    {
      "literal": "Julia R. Bursten"
    }
  ],
  "container-title": "Spontaneous Generations: A Journal for the History and Philosophy of Science",
  "volume": "5",
  "issue": "1",
  "issued": {
    "date-parts": [
      [
        2011,
        9,
        30
      ]
    ]
  },
  "URL": "https://spontaneousgenerations.com/articles/sam-kean-the-disappearing-spoon-and-other-true-tales-of-madness-love-and-14955/",
  "page": "100-102",
  "DOI": "10.4245/sponge.v5i1.14955",
  "abstract": "Sometimes the right book finds you at the right time, and it shifts your perception of a familiar subject just a little, just enough to make a difference. It reminds you of something important you haven’t thought of in a while, or it shows you a new way of looking at and interacting with the world. Last winter, for me, that book was The Disappearing Spoon, by Sam Kean. I heard a very fuzzy description of the book at a holiday party, something about the periodic table and political history. As someone eternally interested in chemistry and its impact on society at large, I was intrigued."
}