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Jackson, Reggie, 95

Jastrow, Robert, 241

Jefferson, Thomas, 58, 203

Jenner, Edward, 222

Joan of Arc, 200

John Paul II, Pope, 189

Johnson, Pamela Jean, xxiv

Johnson, Phillip, 177, 180, 187, 198

Jones, Absalom, 209

Jordan, Michael, xxi

Jupiter, 132, 202

Justinian, Emperor, 209

Kant, Immanuel, 23, 58, 214

Karr, Barry, 61

Kauffman, Stuart, 141–42

Keeley, Lawrence, 89

Kennedy, John F., 200, 205, 219

Kenyon, Dean, 177

Kepler, Johannes, 209, 219, 221

Khayyám, Omar, xi

King, Martin Luther, 209

Klass, Phil, 61

Klein, Richard, 166–67

Köhler, Georges J. F., 223

Kolmogorov, Andrey Nikolayevich, 193

Kuhn, Thomas, 244, 258

!Kung culture, 73

Kuras, Gina, 92

Kurtz, Paul, 61, 65–66

Laden, Osama bin, 200

language, 19, 45, 114–15, 167–69, 169

Laplace, Pierre-Simon de, 147–48, 153

Larsen, Edward, 22

Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory (LIGO), 42

Laughton, Charles, 111, 113, 114

Lavoisier, Antoine, 214, 222

Lawrence, Ernest O., 223

Leakey, Richard, 166–68

Learned Societies Conference, 27

Lee, Bruce, 204

Lee, Robert E., xxxv, 156–57, 158

Leibniz, G. W von, 222

Leighton, Ralph, 25

Lenin, 203

Lessons of History, The (Durant), 217–18

Letting Go of God (Sweeney), 25

Levi-Montalcini, Rita, 50

Lewis, C. S., 61

Lewontin, Richard, 262

Lieberman, Joseph, 54

Life (magazine), 202–3

light experiments, 41

Limbaugh, Rush, 22, 28, 70

Lindbergh, Charles, 205

Linnaeus, Carolus, 203

Linse, Pat, 61, 64, 65

Lippershey, Hans, 221

Lister, Joseph, 222

lists, top events and people, 200–224

Liu, Chan-Nao, 50

Lizot, Jacques, 71, 73, 74, 76–77, 87

Locke, John, 58

Loewen, James W., 240

logic, 156, 223

Longley, L. V, 140

Lou Gehrig’s disease, 50

love, 5, 122–23, 129

Lucretius, 89

Luther, Martin, 203, 252

Lyell, Charles, 222

McClellan, George B, xxxv, 156, 157, 158

McCoy, William, 121

MacCready, Paul, 63, 130

McGurrin, Frank, 140

Mach, Ernst, 235–36

Mclntyre, Ben, 22

Mack, John, 147

McLean v. Arkansas, 175–76

McLuhan, Marshall, 216

McNeill, William H., 131

McPerson, Aimee Semple, 237

Magellan, Ferdinand, 203, 221

Mahavira, 209

malaria, 48

Malinowski, Bronislaw, 96

Malthus, Thomas, 222

Manchester, William, 216–17

Mandela, Nelson, 203

Manutius, Aldus, 221

Marconi, Guglielmo, 222

Mars, xi–xviii, xvii

Marx, Karl, 199, 228, 252–53

mass extinctions, 242–43

mass hysterias, 142–47

“matricide paradox,” 43, 237

Maudslay, Joseph, 222

Maxwell, James Clerk, 214, 222

Mayr, Ernst, 188, 244, 245

Mead, Margaret, 69, 75

Medicis, Catherine de, 203

Melville, Herman, 148

Mencius, 209

Mencken, H. L., 60, 217

Mendel, Gregor, 222

Mendeleyev, Dmitri, 222

meningioma, 102–4

methodological supernaturalism, 179–81

Meyer, Stephen C, 177, 187

microevolution, 182

Miele, Frank, 70

Mikado (Gilbert and Sullivan), 263

Mill, John Stuart, 266

Miller, Kenneth, 177–78, 194

Millward, John, 125

Milner, Richard, 253

Milstein, César, 223

Moberg, Kerstin Uvnas, 122

modal thinking, 156, 157, 159, 161

“Modified Grandeur” (Gould), 263–66

molecules, right- vs. left-handed, 47

monkeys, 51, 129, 164

monogamy, 81, 82, 123

Montagu, Ashley, 204

Moon, Sun Myung, 198

Moon landing, 205, 223

morals, 54–57, 122, 143

Morrison, James, 116, 117

Morse, Samuel, 222

Morton, William T, 222

Moss, Thelma, 63

motivation, 91–94

Mr. Bligh’s Bad Language (Dening), 112

MRI (magnetic resonance image), xxxiii, 105, 123

Muhammad, 209

multiverse, 40–43, 191

Muspratt, William, 125

Mutiny on the Bounty (films), 111, 113, 114

Napoleon, 156, 200, 217, 253

Napoleon III (Louis-Napoleon), 253

Narrative of the Mutiny on Board His Majesty’s Ship Bounty (Bligh), 119–20

National Center for Science Education, 178, 195

Native Americans, 170, 172

Natural History, 250–51

natural selection, 192