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Index

addiction treatments,
169

AIDS

sperm donation and,
262

steroids in treatment of,
196
–
98

aircraft, personal,
97
–
105

alcoholism treatments,
169

alligators,
91
–
92

al-Shabaab,
238

Alta Charo, R.,
207

Alzheimer’s disease,
206
,
241

American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine,
186

American Association of Reproductive Medicine,
258

American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM),
194

American Journal of Diseases of Children,
38

American Medical Association,
195

American Society of Artificial Internal Organs,
74

amputations,
3
–
21

opiate addiction after,
11

pain from,
9
,
11

psychological trauma of,
7
,
9

Anabolic Steroids Control Act,
195

Anderson, David,
214

Anderson, Eric,
145
,
148
,
150
,
151

Annas, George,
245

anthrax,
239

anti-abortion war,
208
–
10

anti-aging medicine,
183
–
200

causes of aging and,
191
–
93

free radicals and,
191

on inflammation,
198

legislation against steroids and,
195
–
96

metabolism in,
191

stem cells in,
199

testosterone in,
192
–
93

Anti-Drug Abuse Act,
195

Argonne National Laboratory,
118

ARKYD 100 space telescope,
149

Army Corps of Engineers,
83
–
85
,
90

Arthur R. Marshall Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge,
88
,
91
–
92

artificial intelligence,
27
–
28
,
223
.
See also
mind uploading

artificial limbs.
See
prosthetics

Ashcroft, John,
210

Asimov, Isaac,
27

Asphaug, Erik,
147

aspirational genome,
131

asteroid mining,
141
–
52

compared to exploration of North America,
149

economics of,
149
–
50

mapping for,
147
–
48

for platinum-group metals,
150

science fiction on,
145
,
148

space missions and,
144
,
146
–
47

technology for,
148

for water,
151

“Asteroids of Gold” (Simak),
145

astral projection,
36

Atkinson, Peter,
136
,
137
,
138
,
140

Atomic Energy Commission,
109

“Atoms for Peace” (Eisenhower),
109

Aum Shinrikyo,
233
–
34

Avatar
(film),
27

ayahuasca,
161

Aztecs,
167

Babbitt, Bruce,
84

Batzer, Jeff,
8
–
9

Baumgartner, Felix,
125
–
30

Becker, Ernest,
xv
–
xvi
,
29
,
175

Behr, Barry,
262

Beijing Genomics Institute,
237
–
38

Béliard, Octave,
87

Berger, Theodore,
26

Berthold, Arnold,
192

Bigelow Aerospace,
129

BioBricks,
234

bioethics,
211
–
12

Biological Weapons Convention,
230

BiOM prosthetic,
18
–
20

biosensing technologies,
242

Biosphere 2,
89

biotechnology, rate of progress in,
28
–
29
.
See also
synthetic biology

bioweapons,
219
–
46

crowdsourcing designs for,
221
–
23

FBI biosecurity conferences on,
236
–
37

genetically targeted,
224
–
25
,
227
–
28

against heads of state,
224

radical transparency against,
243
–
46

sensing technologies against,
242
–
43

Blees, Tom,
111
,
119

Blood, Benjamin Paul,
168

Bloom, Howard,
219

Blue Brain project,
28

Blue Heron Biotechnology,
231

brain-computer interface (BCI),
26

Brand, Stewart,
111

Brandt, Laura,
91

Branson, Richard,
145

Breedlove, Craig,
xii
,
97

“Brief proposal on immortality: an interim solution” (Martin),
27

British Journal of Sports Medicine,
190

British Telecommunications,
25

Britton, Willoughby,
43
–
45

Brown, Clare,
255

Brown-Séquard, Édouard,
193

Built to Survive: HIV Wellness Guide
(Vergel & Mooney),
197

Bush, George W.,
11
,
111
,
207
,
209
–
10
,
211
–
12
,
213
,
214
,
217
,
238
,
261

Butcher, Grace,
37

Calder Hall,
110

Calfee Design Factory,
99

California Cryobank,
249
–
63

California Health Span Institute,
185

Cameron, James,
27

cancer.
See also
end-of-life care

genetically targeted treatments for,
224
–
25
,
240
–
41

stem cells in treatment of,
205
–
6

Canseco,
183
,
184
,
187
–
88

Captain Capsid,
222

Carbon Mitigation Initiative,
114

carbon taxes,
113

Carter, Jimmy,
116

Catholic Church,
260

cattails,
90
–
91

Celera,
228

Challenger
space shuttle,
129

The Changing Body
(Fogel, Floud, Harris, & Hong),
54
–
56

Charo, R. Alta,
207

Chernobyl,
110
,
112
,
118

Chicago Pile-1,
109

China

coal-related deaths in,
112

nuclear energy in,
119
,
121

synthetic biology in,
237
–
38

China Syndrome,
110

Church, George,
232

Cierva, Juan de la,
102

The City and the Stars
(Clarke),
27

Clarke, Arthur C.,
27

Clean Air Act,
84

climate change,
111
–
14
,
119

asteroid mining and,
145
–
46

insect-borne illnesses and,
134

Clinton, Bill,
84
,
118
,
207

Clinton, Hillary,
224
,
230

cloning

legislation against,
215
–
16

stem cells and,
208
,
214
–
15
,
217
–
18

coal,
112
,
114

cochlea, artificial,
26

Cochrane, Peter,
25
–
27
,
28
,
30
–
31

Cochrane, Thomas,
117

Cockcroft, John,
109

Colbert, Stephen,
143

Collins, Rick,
194

Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan (CERP),
84
,
88
–
90

Conrad, Alfred,
51
–
52

consciousness

downloadable,
xv
,
23
–
31

fear of death and,
xv
–
xvi
,
29
–
30

oneness with the universe and,
46
–
47

in out-of-body experiences,
35
–
40

psychedelic drugs and,
155
–
81

true nature of,
28

Consolmagno, Brother Guy,
143
–
44
,
147
–
48
,
149
,
152

Controlled Substance Act,
169

ConvAirCar,
100

Corliss, Lindsay,
157
,
165
–
66

Costa, Dora,
52

Cravens, Gwyneth,
112
,
115
,
116

Cray supercomputer,
226

C-reactive proteins,
198

crowdsourcing,
221
–
23
,
235
–
36

culture and science,
xiv

cummings, e. e.,
xv

Cures Now,
214
,
216

Curtiss, Glenn,
100

Daily Mail
(newspaper),
224

d’Aquili, Eugene,
45

Darwin, Charles,
49
,
54

Daschle, Tom,
214

Davis, Gray,
212

Day-Glo protein,
138

death

anxiety over,
xv
–
xvi
,
26
–
27
,
175

definition of,
210

end-of-life care and,
159
–
61
,
162
–
63
,
175
–
77

fear of,
42
–
43

near-death experiences and,
37
–
43

PTSD after brushes with,
43
–
45

Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA),
15
,
18

de Kruif, Paul,
193
,
204

Democritus,
109

dengue fever,
133
,
134

The Denial of Death
(Becker),
xv
–
xvi
,
29

Department of Health and Human Services,
195
,
210

depression,
44
–
45

desalination,
121

DHEA,
186
,
198

diabetes,
206
,
213
–
14

Diamandis, Peter,
xi
–
xiii
,
141
,
145
,
148
,
150

Di Pasquale, Mauro,
188
–
89
,
190

Disabled Sports USA,
15

disruptive technologies,
xiv
–
xvi
,
31
,
152