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p. 257 ‘… in it for the money because it was suddenly available’: K. Mullis, ‘What Scientists Do’, TED talk, February 2002, available at http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/kary_mullis_on_what_scientists_do.html
p. 257 a 2008 paper by the GEM particle physics collaboration: A Budzanowski et al., ‘Cross Section and Tensor Analysing Power of the dd → ηα Reaction Near Threshold’, Nuclear Physics A, vol. 821, p. 193 (2009). If you really want to, you can download the paper from http://arxiv.org/abs/0811.3372v1
p. 257 the majority of scientists are ‘shut up in the narrow cell of their laboratory …’: O. Gasset, The Revolt of the Masses (Unwin, 1969), p. 85.
p. 258 ‘Never lose sight of the role your particular subject has …’: E. Schrödinger, Science and Humanism (Cambridge University Press, 1951), p. 8.
p. 258 ‘If you follow the herd, all the grass is gone’: Andre Geim, interview with the author for New Scientist, 14 October 2010.
p. 260 ‘These are the marks of science …’: J. Bronowski, The Common Sense of Science (Heinemann, 1951), p. 150.
p. 260 those who have felt the ‘torment of the unknown.’: C. Bernard, An Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine (Dover Publications, 1927), p. 222.
p. 260 ‘Science is the acceptance of what works and the rejection of what does not’: J. Bronowski, The Common Sense of Science, p. 148.
INDEX
A
adult stem cells in reproductive medicine 149
advocacy (principle of), rejection 241
aerosols, CFCs 225
aether theory 49, 50, 57
Age of Leisure 230
Alfvén, Hannes 200–2, 203, 205–6, 213, 215
alien signals 216–18
Alper, Tikvah 79
Altman, Lawrence K. 104
Alzheimer’s disease and prions 85, 96–8
amorphous materials (incl. silicon) 208–10
Ampère, André-Marie 36
amyloid-β (β-amyloid) and Alzheimer’s disease 97
anaesthesia 110–11
Anderson, Melissa 55
animals
rights, and non-human primates 157–9
Antarctica, hole in ozone layer 227–9
antibiotics
resistance 116, 124, 171, 177
Apollo 8 15, 17
Apple computers 21
Aristotle 139, 140
Arrhenius, Svante 165, 179–80
artificial cells see synthetic cells
artificial womb 152–3, 156
arXiv.org 252
asthma and hookworm infection 131
Atkins, Peter 39
atmosphere
aurora borealis and the 202–3
greenhouse gases 235–8
ozone depletion 223–30, 240
atomic bomb 30–3, 247
aurora borealis 202–3
autism and MMR vaccine 126–7
Avery, Oswald 88–9, 90
B
bacteria
stomach 112–25
symbiotic relationships with plant and animals in evolution 181–6
synthetic 145–6
see also antibiotics
Baltimore, David 146
Barcelona FC (football club) 206–7
Bardeen, John 166–8
Barrow, Isaac 214
battery, NiMH 210
Bawden, Frederick 86–90
Bayer and the Bayer pharmaceutical company 26–7
Bedau, Mark 146
Bell Laboratories 12, 166, 167, 168, 208
Bendheim, Paul 91
Bernard, Claude 179, 260
beta-amyloid and Alzheimer’s disease 97
Bienenstock, Arthur 212
Bier, August 111
Big Bang theory 11, 12, 161
Biggers, John D. 138
Birkeland, Kristian 202–3
bismuth 119–20
black holes 194–8
blood circulation 38
Boon, Tim 4
Boorstin, Daniel 121
bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE; mad cow disease) 79, 83, 84
Bown, Ralph 168
Brahe, Tycho 95, 160, 169
brain
cells 209
prion-related diseases of 75–100
scans, unethical 127–8
brain-boosting drugs 22
Brand, Stewart 15–17
brand identity of science 2, 5, 12, 220, 240, 241
Brattain, Walter 166–8
Brave New World 148, 155, 243
Brief History of Time, A 10, 161
Brin, David 126–8
Brockman, John 185
Bronowski, Jacob 4, 10, 23, 220, 255, 260
Brooks, Margaret 141
Brout, Robert 180
Brown, Alan 129, 130, 132
Brown, Louise 135, 136, 137, 138, 141, 153, 154, 155
Browne, Thomas 143
Brush, Stephen J. 74
BSE (bovine spongiform encephalopathy) 79, 83, 84
Bunsen, Robert 27
Burke, Bernard 12
butterfly evolution 288
C
Cambridge