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limbic cortex
Linux (operating system)
lipstick, effect on champagne bubbles of
Little Nickey (cloned cat)
Lloyd, Seth
logging companies
Long, Sharon
loop quantum gravity
L’Oréal
Lorenzo’s Oil (film)
Louisiana
LSD
Lucas, George
Lucas, Joe
Lucent
lupus
machos (massive compact halo objects)
Macintosh (Mac) computer
mad cow disease
magnetic resonance imaging
magnetoencephalography
mainframe computers
Makhijani, Arjun
Malenka, Rob
manned safety rating
Mars
Massachusetts
Massachusetts Institute of
Technology
matter
. See also dark matter Matzke, Nick
Maxwell, James Clerk
McEuen, Paul
McGee, Harold
MEG (magnetoencephalography)
Melvill, Mike memory
addiction relapse and
aging and
music and
sleep and
memory loss
Alzheimer’s disease and
amnesia and
men, brain function
mental calisthenics
mental illness
mercury
methamphetamine
methane
methanol
microgravity
microscope, atomic force
Microsoft
microwave background radiation
mind
mini hurricanes, shower curtains and
miracles
MIT. See Massachusetts Institute of
Technology mitochondrial DNA
Modeen, David
Moglen, Eben
molecular biology
molecular manufacturing
molecules
Monsanto
moon
Moore, Gordon
Moore, Patrick
Moore’s law
Moosa, Ebrahim
moral imperative, global warming and
morality
Morpho butterfly
mortality
motion, laws of
MRI (magnetic resonance imaging)
Muhammad (prophet)
multitasking
Murdoch, Iris
Murphy, Carol
music
musical hallucinations
music therapy
Musk, Elon
Muslims
nanobots
nanocrystals, wireless
“nano noses,”
Nanosolar
nanosolar technology
Nanosys
nanotechnology
nanotubes. See carbon nanotubes nanowires
NASA
Nathan, David
National Academy of Sciences
National Geographic Society
National History Museum (Nairobi)
National Institute of Environmental
Health Sciences
National Inventors Hall of Fame
National Medal of Honor
National Park Service
National Renewable Energy
Laboratory
National Resources Defense Council
National Science Foundation
National Security Agency
National Sleep Foundation
Native Americans
natural gas
Natural History Museum (London)
Natural Resources Defense Council
natural selection
nature, God vs.
Nature Conservancy
Nelson, Aaron P.
Netherlands
network neutrality
neurons
information processing by
regeneration of
neuroscience
neurotransmitters
Nevada
New Orleans
Newton, Isaac
New York
New York Times
nicotine addiction. See addiction nitrogen oxide
Nobel laureates
North Dakota
North Korea
Novalis
NRC. See Nuclear Regulatory
Commission
NREL. See National Renewable
Energy Laboratory
NSA. See National Security Agency Nuclear Energy Institute
nuclear fusion
nuclear power
Nuclear Regulatory Commission
nuclear weapons
nutrition
Oak Ridge Associated Universities
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
obesity
oceans
See also sea levels
Earle, Sylvia and
Of Pandas and People (textbook)
oil
Olduvai Gorge
Omidyar, Pierre
open-source model
Orentzle, Richard
organ transplants
Orion Crew Exploration Vehicle
ORNL. See Oak Ridge National
Laboratory
Oryx and Crake (Atwood)
overeating
Ozawa (Japanese politician)
pancreas
Parkinson’s disease
parthenogenesis
particle accelerators
particle physics
Pasteur, Louis
patents
patient-specific cells
PCs. See personal computers pebble-bed reactors
Pennsylvania. See Dover School
Board case
Penrose, Roger
personal computers
Peterson, Larry
pets, cloning of
PET scans
Pew Internet Project
pharmaceutical companies
phishing
photonics
photoreceptors
photovoltaic generators
physics
revolutionary change in
string theory
See also quantum mechanics pigs
pilli
Pinker, Steven
placenta
Planck, Max
PlanetLab Consortium
planktonlike creatures
plants, cloning and
plutonium
Pober, Leon
podcasts
poetry
Poincaré, Jules Henri
poker
polar ice
politics energy policy and
environmental policy and
Polkinghorne, John
poplar trees, ethanol from
poppies
positron emission tomography. See
PET scans power. See energy; specific sources POWER Magazine
precision grip
precursor cells
prefrontal cortex
Prey (Crichton)
procedural memory
Proceedings of the National Academy of
Sciences
Prozac
pump technology
punch cards
purse seine tuna boats
Pygmies
quantitative (cordance) electroencephalography
(QEEG)
quantum computers
quantum mechanics computing and
cosmology and
quantum simulators
quantum teleportation
qubits
Quoogle
race horses
radio waves
Raman, Varadaraja V.
Randall, Lisa
RAND Corporation
rapid eye movement. See REM sleep reading problems
Reagan, Ronald
reality
reasoning
recombinant
DNA technology. See
DNA cloning recycling of nuclear waste
Reeve, Christopher
Regeneration Project
relativity theory
religion
creationism and
embryonic stem cell research and
environmentalism and
science and
REM sleep
renewable energy. See alternative energies reproductive cloning
Resource Recovery Association
reward system, brain and
rheumatoid arthritis
robots
Roentgen, Wilhelm
Roman Catholicism
root cells
Roslin Institute
Rubin, Vera
Ruckelshaus, William D.
Russian Federal Space Agency
Rutan, Burt
Sacks, Oliver
Sadoulet, Bernard
safety issues nanotechnology and
nuclear power and
space travel and
See also security
St. Olaf College
Samsung
Sandoz Pharmaceuticals
Sargasso Sea
Sasquatch
satellite industry
Saturn V (spacecraft)
Scadden, David T.
Scaled Composites
Schaller, George
Schenck, Carlos
Schiavo, Terri
Schindler, Oskar
schizophrenia
Schmidt, David P.
school boards
Schrödinger, Erwin
Schrödinger’s cat
Science (journal)
science, religion and
Science Museum of Minnesota
scientific method
scleroderma
Scopes, John
Scopes trial (1925)
sea levels
sea mounts
search engines
seawalls
Second Chance (cloned bull)
security
Internet and
quantum computers and
seizures, music and
self-assembly
Sellafield
sequestration
Serling, Rod
serotonin
sex hormones
shower curtains, billowing of
Sign of the Four, The (Doyle)
silicon chips
Silicon Valley
silver ions
Sinclair
Sivan, Uri
Skype
Slaymaker, Wes
sleep
sleep deprivation
Smalley, Richard
“smart dust,”
smart ink
Smith, Norman
Smolin, Lee
Snuppy (cloned dog)
Soane, David
Society of Toxicology
solar energy
Sorcerer II (yacht)
South Africa
South Dakota
Soviet Union
soybeans
space (dimension)
Space Adventures
space elevators
Space Exploration Technologies
(SpaceX)
space hotels
SpaceShipOne (spacecraft)
space shuttle
space stations
space tourism
space travel and exploration
by-products of
carbon nanotubes and
entrepreneurs and
Mars and
private sector and
space elevators
Spain
Spearville Wind Energy Facility
spinal-cord injuries
spleen cells
“spooky action at a distance,”
sprays
SQUID
Stanford University
Star Trek (TV series)
State Department, U.S.
stem cells
amniotic
embryonic
Steuerwalt, Matt
Stickgold, Robert
stigmatization, addiction and
Stormer, Horst
Strauss, Lewis
stress
string theory
stroke victims
subatomic particles
submarines
substance abuse. See addiction successive contrast
sugar cane
sulfur dioxide
sunlight, ocean life and
superconducting quantum interference device
supersymmetry
Supreme Court, U.S.
sushi
switchgrass
synapses
Syngenta
Tang
tax subsidies
T-cells
telephone companies
teleportation
telescopes
temperature
global warming projection
oceans increase in temporal lobes
Tennessee
Teresa, Mother
terrorism
Texas
Texas A&M
theory of everything
therapeutic cloning
This-Benckhard, Hervé
Three Mile Island
Tidwell, Mike
time
tissue culture propagation
Tokamak fusion reactor
toolmaking
transistors
transplantation amniotic stem cells
organs
trawling
trees, ethanol from
TriBeCa Film Festival (N.Y.C.)
truth, religious vs. scientific
Tumlinson, Rick
turbine technology
Turner, John
Turner, Michael
Twain, Mark
type 1 diabetes
United Kingdom. See Great Britain United Nations
universe dimensions of
quantum computers and
religious perspective of
timeline of
See also cosmology
University of California, Los Angeles
University of Minnesota
University of Washington
University of Wisconsin
UNIX (operating system)
uranium
Van Heerden, Ivor
Velcro
Venter, J. Craig
venture capitalists
video games, addiction to
video-sharing Web sites
Virgin Galactic (tourist venture)
virusesgene therapy and
nanotechnology and
xenotransplantation and
vitamins
Volkow, Nora
Walker, Matthew
Waring, Clive
Washington (state)
waste recycling, nuclear
Watson, James
Web sites. See World Wide Web Weinberg, Steven
wetlands
Whitesides, George
Wilczek, Frank
Wild Chimpanzees (film)
Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy
Probe
Williams, Robin
willow trees, ethanol from
Wilmut, Ian
wimps (weakly interacting massive particles)
Windows (operating system)
wind power
Spearville Wind Energy Facility
Windustry
Winscale
WMAP women brain function and
scientific field studies and
World Wide Web
World Wildlife Fund
Wozniak, Steve
Wright brothers
Wu, Tim
Xcel Energy
xenotransplantation
Xerox Palo Alto Research Center
X-rays
Yale University
Yeti
YouTube
Yucca Mountain
Zare, Richard
Zare, Susan
zer
o-G planes
Zittrain, Jonathan
Zoloth, Laurie
Zurich Research Laboratory (IBM)
Zwanzig, Carl
Zwicky, Fritz
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IRA FLATOW, former NPR® and regular science correspondent, and award-winning radio and TV journalist, is the host and executive producer of Talk of the Nation: Science Friday®. His popular books include Rainbows, Curve Balls, and They All Laughed. He lives in Connecticut.
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Table of Contents
Cover
Title Page
Contents
Introduction
Part I
Chapter 01
Chapter 02
Chapter 03
Chapter 04
Chapter 05
Part II
Chapter 06
Chapter 07
Chapter 08
Part III
Chapter 09
Chapter 10
Part IV
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14