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Bernoulli’s principle

big bang

Big Coal (Tidwell)

Bigelow, Robert

Bigfoot

Biggert, Judy

binary computing

Bingham, Sally

biodiesel fuel

biodiversity, oceanic

bioelectricity

biofuels. See biodiesel fuel; ethanol biological warfare agents

biology

open-source model and

bionanotechnology

BIOS initiative

Bishop, Jerry

bits

black holes

blastocysts

blogs

Boing Boing (blog)

Boltzmann, Ludwig

Boltzmann equation

Bongo, Omar

brain

addiction and

adolescence and

aging and

color perception and

consciousness and

development of

genetics and

imaging of

information processing by

injuries to

memory and. See memory neuron regeneration and

reward system and

sex-based differences in

sleep’s effects on

stress and

successive contrast and

brain chemistry

brain stem

branes

Branson, Richard

Brazil

Brief History of Time, A (Hawking)

Brinker, Jeff

British Columbia

broadband. See bandwidth Brookhaven National Laboratory

Brown, Carol

Brown, Jeff

Brown, Lester

Brunson, Doyle

bubbles, carbonation and

buckyballs. See fullerenes Buddhists

bullet cluster

Burgess, Anthony

Bush, George W.

embryonic stem cell research and

energy policy and

evolution theory and

nuclear power and

space program and

B vitamins

cable companies

caffeine

California

California Institute of Technology

calluses

CAMBIA

Cambridge University

Canada

cancer

capacitors

carbonated beverages

carbon dioxide

mandatory limits on

oceans and

sequestration and

carbon nanotubes

Carter, Jimmy

CASEnergy Coalition

Cassini Hugens space mission

CAT scans

cell banks

cellulosic biomass

Central Intelligence Agency

Centre Interprofessionnel des Vins de

Champagne

cerebellum

Cerf, Vinton

CERN

Challenger space shuttle

champagne bubbles

Chandra X-ray Observatory

chemical warfare agents

chemotherapy

Cheney, Dick

Chernobyl

chimpanzees

China

nuclear power and

Christians

CIA. See Central Intelligence Agency Clarke, Arthur C.

“clean diesel” fuel

climate change. See global warming clocks

cloning

recombinant technology

CNN.com

coal

Coandă, Henri-Marie

Coandă effect

cocaine addiction. See addiction Cochran, Tom

cognitive reserve

Collins, Francis

color wheels

Columbia space shuttle

Columbia University

compulsive disorders

computed tomography

computerized axial tomography

computers

open-source movement and

computers (continued)

quantum

See also Internet; personal computers

conditioning

Congo Basin

consciousness

Convergent Thinking, LLC

coral reefs

cord cells

Corey, Dave

corn

See also ethanol cosmetics

cosmology

big bang and

dark energy and

dark matter and

dimensions of universe and

quantum mechanics and

relativity theory and

string theory and

theory of everything

timeline of universe and

cotton

Cousteau, Jacques

cows

creationism

creativity

Crichton, Michael

Crick, Francis

Crohn’s disease

Crowley, Kevin

CT scans

culture, chimpanzee capacity for

cyber attacks

dams

dark energy

dark matter

Darwin, Charles

Davis-Bessie nuclear plant

Dawkins, Richard

daydreaming

deformed special relativity

dementia

. See also Alzheimer’s disease dendritic trees

Denmark

depression

diabetes

Faustman, Denise and

diesel fuel

. See also biodiesel fuel dikes. See levees “dirty” bombs

disease

cloning and

immune system and

stem cells and

See also health and well-being

DNA

discoverer of

human genome and

nanotechnology and

ocean life and

primate research and

stem cells and

Venter, J. Craig and

DNA cloning

Dobzhansky, Theodosius

Dolly (cloned sheep)

dopamine

Dover School Board case (Pa.)

drag (wind resistance)

dreaming

drift nets

drinking water

drugs addiction and

brain chemistry and

rehabilitation programs and

dry cask storage facilities

dynamical triangulation

dyslexia

Earle, Sylvia

Earth Policy Institute

eating addictions

eBay

Eberhardt, Scott

Edelman, Benjamin

Edison, Thomas

Edwards v. Aguilar (1987)

EEGs. See electroencephalograms efficient causes

Einstein, Albert

quantum mechanics and

relativity theory and

religion and

“spooky action at a distance” and

theory of everything and

electricity

carbon nanotubes and

cars powered by

coal and

nanowires and

nuclear power and

solar power and

wind power and

electroencephalograms

electroencephalographs

electromagnetism

electrometallurgical processing

electronics, nanotechnology and

electrons

embryonic stem cell lines

embryonic stem cells

embryos

emotions

encephalitis

energy

carbon nanotubes and

environmentalism and

fossil fuels and

industry deregulation and

nuclear power and

politics and

See also alternative energies; dark energy; electricity

Energy Department, U.S.

Enron

entropy

Environmental Defense

environmentalism

Environmental Protection Agency

epilepsy

episodic memory

“equal transit times” principle

ergot fungus

ethanol

European Organization for Nuclear

Research

evangelical Christians

event memory

everything, theory of

evolution

intelligent design vs.

sleep and

exercise

experiments

eyewitness accounts

FAA. See Federal Aviation

Administration fabrics, nanotechnology and

Falcon 1 (spacecraft)

Falcon 9 (spacecraft)

Fantastic Voyage (film)

Faraday, Michael

farmers switchgrass crop and

wind energy and

Faustman, Denise

Federal Aviation Administration

Feynman, Richard

fiber optics

final causes

First Amendment

fish and fishing

Fish and Wildlife Service

Fleming, Alexander

flex-fuel cars

floodgates

flooding

Florida

fMRI

food biofuels and

fish as

good nutrition and

overeating and

Food and Drug Administration

foot-and-mouth disease

Ford, Gerald

forgetfulness

Forrest, Barbara

fossil fuels. See coal; oil Foundation for Thought and Ethics

Fountains of Paradise, The (Clarke)

Fox, Michael J.

France

Froetschner, Kermit

frontal cortex

frontal lobes

fuel. See energy; specific sources and types fuel cells

aircraft

Fuller, Buckminster

fullerenes

functional magnetic resonance imaging

fundamentalism, religious

FutureGen

Gabon

galaxies

Galileo

gambling, compulsive

gasoline

. See also oil Gates, Bill

Gelsinger, Jesse

gender, brain function and

gene pool database, oceans and

general anesthesia

gene therapy

genetic engineering

cloning and

genetics addiction and

Alzheimer’s disease and

brain and

See also cloning; DNA Genetic Savings & Clone

genetic testing

Georgia

Georgia Institute of Technology

geosynchronous orbit

Germany

Gibbs, Josiah Willard

Gimzewski, James

Gingerich, Owen

Global Nuclear Energy Partnership

global warming

coal power and

flooding and

moral imperative concerning

nuclear power and

oceans and

sea level and

GNU Public License

God as intelligent designer

science’s relationship with

God and the Astronomers (Jastrow)

Goldblum, Jeff

Golden Rule

Goodall, Jane

Goodell, Jeff

Google

Gorby, Yuri

Gore, Al

Gould, Stephen Jay

GPL. See GNU Public License graphite-moderated nuclear reactors

Grateful Dead (music group)

gravity

galaxies and

relativity theory and

space travel and

string theory and

theory of everything and

Gray, Asa

Great Britain

Greene, Brian

Greenfield, Shelly

greenhouse gases

. See also specific gases

Greenland

Gregoire, Christine

Grey, Jerry

Griffin, Michael

Grosvenor, Gilbert

Guinness beer

Haack, Susan

hallucinations

musical

Halterman, Bob

Haught, John

Hawking, Stephen

health and well-being

nutrition and

nanotechnology and

health insurance

heart disease

helium

hemicellulose

Hering, Ewald

Hewlett-Packard

Higgs boson

Hinduism

hippocampus

Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, The

Ho, Don

Hofmann, Albert

Homebrew Computer Club

hormones

Horrigan, John

Hubble Space Telescope

human genome

Human Genome Project

humor

hunting

hybrid cars

hydrogen

hydrogen fuel

hypertension

hypothalamus

IBM

ID. See intelligent design IGCC

Ig Nobel Prize

immortality

immune system

immunosuppressive drugs

impulse control

Inconvenient Truth, An (film)

India

Indiana

innovation

instant messaging

Institute for Biological and Energy

Alternatives

insulin

integrated gasification combined cycle

Intel

intellectual engagement

intelligence

intelligent design

Dover School Board case (Pa.)

Jones, Judge John E., III and

Kansas Board of Education and

internal-combustion engines

International Space Station

Internet

in vitro fertilization

ions

Iowa

iPods

Iran

Iris (film)

Islam. See Muslims islet cells

ISS. See International Space Station Itten, Johannes

Jacoby, Susan

Jaffe, Amy

James Webb Space Telescope

Japan

Jastrow, Robert

Jefferson, Richard

Jeopardy! (TV game show)

Jobs, Steve

Jodziewicz, Laurie

Jones, John E.

Jones, Mary H.

Jones, Tom

Joy, Bill

Judaism

Kadak, Andrew

Kammen, Dan

Kansas

Kansas Board of Education

Kansas City Power & Light

Kas family

Kaypro

Kelly, Richard C.

knock-out pigs

knowing, joy of

Krauss, Lawrence

Kroto, Harry

Kulinowski, Kristen

Kyoto Protocol

La Hague

Lancôme

Lane, Neal

language

Lanza, Robert

Large Hadron Collider

laughter

L-dopa

Leakey, Louis

Leakey, Mary

learning

LED technology

Legends of Poker Tournament

leukemia

levees

Lewis, C. S.

LHC. See Large Hadron Collider Lieber, Charles

life safety

light

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