Dancing Naked in the Mind Field

By: Kary Mullis

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Paperback | 4 January 2000

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Here are the outrageous ideas and extra-ordinary adventures of the world's most eccentric and outspoken Noble Prize-winning scientist. Awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1993, Kary Mullis has frequently been at odds with the scientific establishment. Legendary for his invention of the polymerase chain reaction (PCR), which redefined the world of DNA and genetics, Mullis is also an accomplished surfer, a veteran of Berkeley in the sixties, and perhaps the only Nobel laureate to describe a possible encounter with aliens.
In Dancing Naked in the Mind Field Mullis writes with passion and humor about a wide range of subjects: from the scientific method to parapsychology, from poisonous spiders to the HIV virus and AIDS, from global warming to astrology, from the O. J. Simpson trial to how you can turn a light bulb on with your mind. A multidimensional playland of ideas, this book challenges us to question the authority of scientific dogma even as it reveals the workings of an uncannily original scientific mind.

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"Delightful . . . joyous . . . an autobiography of the nervous system of an extraordinary chemist." --The New York Times Book Review "One of the most mind-stretching and inspirational books I've read for a long time." --Arthur C. Clarke

"Kary Mullis, perhaps the weirdest human ever to win the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, [has written] a chatty, rambling, funny, iconoclastic tour through the wonderland that is [his] mind." --The Washington Post

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The Invention of PCR	p. 3
The Big Prizes	p. 15
A Lab Is Just Another Place to Play	p. 26
Fear and Lawyers in Los Angeles	p. 44
The Realm of the Senses	p. 64
I Think, Therefore I Wire	p. 77
My Evening with Harry	p. 83
Intervention on the Astral Plane	p. 89
Avogadro's Number	p. 96
Who's Minding the Store?	p. 101
What Happened to Scientific Method?	p. 107
The Attack of the Loxosceles reclusae	p. 121
No Aliens Allowed	p. 130
The 10,000th Day	p. 137
I Am a Capricorn	p. 143
The Age of Nutritional Obsession	p. 154
Better Living through Chemistry	p. 160
Case Not Closed	p. 171
Have Slides Will Stay Home	p. 183
Am I a Machine?	p. 191
Professional Biochemistry	p. 196
The Age of Chicken Little	p. 202
Acknowledgments	p. 211
Index	p. 213
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