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1 - 1 Why I Wrote this Book
1 - 2 How to Read This Book
1 - 3 Summary of Chapters
2 - 2 The Age of Misinformation
2 - 4 The Four Levels of Information
2 - 5 A Recipe for Truth and Understanding
2 - 6 A Recipe for Truth and Understanding Part 2
2 - 8 Some examples of ideas and the evidence for and against them
3 - 1 Why knowing what we are made of matters
3 - 2 The simplest Legos - atoms
3 - 3 Molecules, monomers, and polymers
3 - 4 Structure in the context of bacteria
3 - 5 Structure in the context of fungi
3 - 6 Structure in the context of multicellular organisms
3 - 7 Strange aliens among us
4 - 1 Open hearts and open minds
4 - 2 Life’s ingredients
4 - 3 Building from the Bottom
4 - 4 Building up complexity
4 - 5 A self-replicative genome
4 - 6 Tracing back to LUCA
5 - 1 The thoughts of Francis Crick
5 - 2 DNA sequence directs its replication, transcription, and translation
5 - 3 Transcription
5 - 4 Translation
5 - 5 Using the central dogma to blow your mind
6 - 1 Enzymes and Beer
6 - 2 Enzymes in Cheese and Yogurt
6 - 3 Fueling our Economy
6 - 4 A rapid run through all the ways microbial enzymes touch your life
7 - 1 Is genetic manipulation of living things by humans a new thing?
7 - 2 Bacterial immune systems provide the tools to change genetics
7 - 3 DNA Sequencing
7 - 4 The second bacterial immune system - CRISPR
7 - 5 The polymerase chain reaction (PCR)
7 - 6 How genetic engineering impacts your life
7 - 7 The development of CRISPR shows the promise and danger of genetic technologies
8 - 1 The history of environmental microbiology
8 - 2 Learning to look the right way
8 - 3 Where do all the dead things go?
8 - 4 Microbes of the Land
8 - 5 Microbes of the water
8 - 6 Microbes and Food: Friends and Foes
9 - 1 Would we be better off without microbes?
9 - 2 Plant/fungi relationships
9 - 3 Insects would die without their bacterial partners
9 - 4 Bacteria can count
9 - 5 You are covered in microorganisms, and that’s a <i>good thing</i>: The human microbiome
9 - 6 Changes in the microbiome change you
10 - 1 What causes infectious disease?
10 - 2 The black death changes the world
10 - 3 Today’s most important pathogens
10 - 4 Diarrheal diseases
10 - 5 Tuberculosis and the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)
10 - 6 Malaria
11 - 1 General Concepts
11 - 2 Innate immunity
11 - 3 Adaptive immunity
11 - 4 Your immune system can make mistakes
11 - 5 Three examples of the immune system in action
12 - 1 Fighting Disease is more than pills and shots
12 - 2 Vaccination
12 - 3 Antimicrobials
13 - 1 The threat of influenza
13 - 2 Why do we have these organizations?
13 - 3 The CDC Response to H1N1
14 - 1 SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19
14 - 2 Origins, spread, and risk of COVID-19
14 - 3 Various responses to COVID-19
14 - 5 Treatments for SARS-CoV-2
14 - 6 Vaccine development. How does it work?
14 - 7 Conspiracy Theories About COVID-19
14 - 8 A call to action: what you can do to fight this epidemic
15 - 1 Why science, especially microbiology, matters
15 - 2 Appreciate the role that chance plays in all things
15 - 3 Small things matter
15 - 4 There are some threats that we do face that have nothing to do with microbes.