| THE GALÁPAGOS | |
| Some of our Trials and Tribulations | |
| The Galápagos | 3 |
| Navels of Eden | 7 |
| Tell It to the Judge | 11 |
| When the Chips are Down | 16 |
| The Phenomenon of Man | 20 |
| Mayonnaise and the Origin of Life | 27 |
| Beetles, Ecologists, and Flies | 31 |
| A Leap of the Imagination | 36 |
| Two Views of Life | 40 |
| Bird What? | 45 |
| THE ROOTS OF WISDOM | |
| Thoughts about Medicine and Dentistry | |
| The Roots of Wisdom | 51 |
| My Mouth Shall Praise | 55 |
| Between Gargoylism and Gas Gangrene | 59 |
| Jurisgenic Disease | 64 |
| Geriatric Gobbledygook | 68 |
| Trees and Forests | 72 |
| Much Ado about Nothing | 76 |
| Through an Ophthalmoscope Darkly | 80 |
| Little Black Boxes | 84 |
| The Ecosystem Within | 89 |
| THE PACE OF LIFE | |
| Mind over Matter | |
| The Pace of Life | 95 |
| The Time of Your Life | 99 |
| Omar and the Ayatollahs | 104 |
| The Paradox of Paradoxes | 108 |
| St. James Infirmary Blues | 113 |
| Do Bacteria Think? | 117 |
| ESP and dQ over T | 122 |
| The Hit Parade | 126 |
| PRISON OF SOCRATES | |
| Some Social Issues | |
| Prison of Socrates | 133 |
| Turning Colorado into Kansas | 137 |
| Welcome, Class of 1984 | 141 |
| The Infernal Combustion Engine | 146 |
| Legacy | 150 |
| Facts and Artifacts | 154 |
| DEALING FROM A FULL DECK | |
| Unusual Individuals and Their Work | |
| Dealing from a Full Deck | 161 |
| As the World Turns | 166 |
| Gossamer Birds, Flights of the Imagination | 170 |
| Dateline: Dubrovnik | 174 |
| On Making a Point | 178 |
| Before Him Lay a Sea of Lies | 182 |
| Warm-Blooded Fish? | 186 |
| How E. coli Got Its Name | 190 |
| BIOCHEMISTRY IS BEAUTIFUL | |
| Science and Esthetics | |
| Biochemistry Is Beautiful | 197 |
| Ice on the Rocks | 201 |
| Biphenyls and Bipeds | 205 |
| Living Lodestones | 209 |
| From Soup to Solid-State | 214 |
| Entropy Anyone? | 218 |
| The Odd Couple | 223 |
| Energy Flow in Ulysses | 227 |
| The Beauty of Mathematics | 232 |
| Index | 237 |