Free Radicals - Michael Brooks [141]
Lucasian Chair of Mathematics 214
Medical Research Centre 242, 244, 259
cancer
gastric, and spiral bacteria 115
skin, ozone layer and 223, 224, 226, 230
cannabis (marijuana) 22, 243, 244, 246
cannibalism and kuru 78
Cantor, Geoffrey 37
Caplan, Robert 136, 146, 147, 154
Cardano, Girolamo 28–9
cardiac catheterisation 104–7
Carp, Richard 94, 95
Carson, Rachel 231
Caughey, Byron 82
Celera Genomics 144
cells
brain 209
HeLa 128
stem, in reproductive medicine 148–51
CFCs and the ozone layer 223–30
Chandrasekhar, Subrahmanyan 32, 193–9, 201, 214, 215
Chapman, Sydney 200–3, 206
charge, electron e (e) 54
chemical transmission (nerves) 24–6
chemical weapons 57, 231
Chesebro, Bruce 83–5
chimpanzee rights 158
Chinese science 96
chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) and the ozone layer 223–30
chloroform 110
chloroplast evolution 182
cholera 120, 125, 132
chorine gas (chemical weapon) 57
Christie, Maureen 229
Churchill, Winston 3–4, 253
CJD (Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease) 78, 79, 83, 84, 90, 96, 98, 99
climate change and global warming 234–9
‘climategate’ 8–10
clinical trials
catastrophe 101–2
effects of delay 255
cloning experiments, falsification and fraud 127
coal-burning power stations 237–8
cocaine 110–11
Coffey, Patrick 164
cold fusion 83–4
Collins, Harry 67
Confucianism 96
Congress (US) and the greenhouse effect 235–6
continental drift 169–70
Conway, Erik M. 239, 240
Copernicus, Nicholas 38, 45, 95, 160, 169
corn (maize) genetics 172–4, 178
cosmic microwave radiation 10–12
Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease (CJD) 78, 79, 83, 84, 90, 96, 98, 99
Crick, Francis 21, 44, 88, 89, 242, 243–7, 248, 250, 259
Crohn’s disease 131
D
Da Vinci, Leonardo 28
data manipulation see misbehaviour
Davy, Humphry 35
Dawkins, Richard 158, 182, 184, 186
DDT 231, 233
de Haas, Johannes 58
De Vries, Raymond 55, 70, 72
decompression sickness 108
Del-Zio, Doris 134, 136
dementia and prions 85, 96–8
Dennett, Daniel 182
Denning, Kathryn 218
deoxyribonucleic acid see DNA
Department of Energy (US) and Hansen 237
Dessler, Alex 200
dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT) 231, 233
Dirac, Paul 33, 59
Ditzen, Gerda 105–6
DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid)
imprinting 151–2
sequence, as code for protein 88
sequencing 18–21
whole human genome 143–4
structure 174
determination 44, 242, 245
see also gene
genome
nucleic acids
double helix (DNA) 88
dreams, finding inspiration in 24–7
drugs
brain-boosting 22
clinical trial catastrophe 101–2
recreational (incl. psychedelic/hallucinogenic drugs – LSD) 16, 18, 20, 21, 22, 111, 112, 243–7, 259
see also pharmaceutical industry
Dyson, Frank 63, 64
E
e (electron charge) 54
E = mc2 equation 7, 60, 61, 62, 247
Earth
magnetic field 202–3
motion through space 49–50
plate tectonics and continental drift 169–70
seen from Moon 15, 17
eclipse data and Einstein’s theories 64–8
ectogenesis 153–4
Eddington, Arthur 62–9
Chandrasekhar Subrahmanyan’s studies and 193–4, 196–9, 214
Edström, Lars 83
education (in science) 255–8
ethics 71
Edwards, Robert 135, 136–8, 153
egg
artificial 150–1, 156
donation 127
see also in vitro fertilisation
insemination
Ehrenhaft, Felix 51, 52, 53, 54, 67
Einstein, Albert 7, 18, 27–8, 30, 44, 48, 247
misdemeanours/dishonesty 56–62
peer review of his work 250
relativity theory see relativity theory
Eisen, Jonathan 22–3
Eldredge, Niles 181, 186
electricity
geomagnetic storm, effects on electrical power supplies 204–5
magnetism and 30, 35–6, 38
electron
charge (e) 54
motion, and magnetism 57–9
embryonic research 134–41, 137–57
embryonic stem cells in reproductive medicine 148–9, 150–1
encephalopathies, spongiform (prion diseases) 75–100
endometrial cells in artificial womb manufacture 152
endosymbiosis in evolution 181–6
energy, fusion reactions in stars 195