The Believing Brain - Michael Shermer [208]
Leavitt, Henrietta Swan
left-hemisphere interpreter
left parietal cortex
left-right political system
left temporal lobe
Leininger, James
Lewis, C. S.
“Liar, Lunatic, or Lord” argument
liberals
libertarianism
Libet, Benjamin
Lick Observatory
Liddy, G. Gordon
Life After Death (Chopra)
Life After Death (D’Souza)
Life After Life (Moody)
light
speed of
Limbaugh, Rush
Lincoln, Abraham
Lindbergh, Charles
Linné, Carl von
Lippershey, Hans
Locke, John
Lommel, Pim van
lookback time
Loose Change (film)
Lorenz, Konrad
loss aversion
Lowell, Percival
lucid dreams
Lunar Society
Luther, Martin
M33 galaxy
M51 Whirlpool galaxy
M81 nebula
M101 Pinwheel nebula
Maanen, Adriaan van
MacDougall, Duncan
Mackey, Lance
Madison, James
Magellan, Ferdinand
Magical Ideation Scale
magnetic fields
magnetic therapy
magnocellular pathway
Maher, Bill
Malcolm X
Malinowski, Bronislaw
Malle, Louis
Marino, John
Marinus of Tyre
Mars
Martin, Nicholas
Marxism
Maupertuis
Mawdudi, Abul Ala
McCarthy, Jenny
McGinnis, John
McKinlay, William Laird
McMoneagle, Joe
McNally, Richard J.
media bias
meditation
Mehmedbasic, Muhamed
memory
mental illness (psychosis)
Men Who Stare at Goats, The (Ronson)
Mercer, Jean
Mere Christianity (Lewis)
Messier catalog
Messner, Reinhold
Metamorphosis (Kafka)
methylene-dioxyamphetamine (MDA)
Meyssan, Thierry
Michelson, Albert
microseizures
Middle Land of belief
Milky Way
Mill, John Stuart
Miller, Bill
Milner, Peter
Milton, Julie
Milyo, Jeffrey
mimicry
mind
body vs.
brain as
ESP and
God as
quantum consciousness and
soul and
universal
Mind of the Market, The (Shermer)
mind schema
miracles
mirror box
mirror neurons
Mises, Ludwig von
Mlodinow, Leonard
model-dependent realism
Mohr, Christine
monism
monoamine oxidase (MAO)
monothesim
Moody, Raymond
Moon, Christopher
Moore’s law
moral intuition theory
moralistic punishment
morality
Euthyphor’s dilemma
evolution and
foundations of
libertarianism and
Morley, Edward
Mormons
morphic resonance fields
Moses
Moss, Thelma
motivation
motor neurons
mountaineers
M-theory
Muhammad
Mullis, Kary
multiverses
eternal-return
many-worlds
multidimensional string theory
multiple-creations
natural selection
quantum foam
Muslim brotherhood
Muslims
My Dinner with Andre (film)
Nango Parbat mountain
Napoléon Bonaparte
narrative of explanation, vs. practice
Nash, John
National Aeronautic and Space Administration (NASA)
natural experiments of history
naturalistic fallacy (is-out)
natural selection
Nature
nature and natural law
book of authority vs.
Collins’s exceptions to
supernatural vs.
Navarick, Douglas
Neanderthals
near-death experiences (NDE)
nebulae, riddle of
nebular hypothesis
negative discoveries
negative events
negative feedback cycle
negativity bias
neural binding
neurons and neural networks
neuroplasticity
neuroscience. See brain; and specific concepts and functions
neurotransmitters
Newberg, Andrew
New General Catalog (NGC)
Newmaker, Candace
Newmaker, Jeane
New Science of Life, A (Sheldrake)
NewsHour (TV show)
NewsNight (TV show)
Newton, Sir Isaac
New World
New York Times
NGC 891
NGC 6822
NGC 6946
Nichol, John
Nightline (TV show)
nightmares
9/11
truthers
9/11: The Big Lie (Meyssan)
Nixon, Richard
norepinephrine
normalcy bias
not-invented-here bias
Novum Organum (Bacon)
nucleus accumbens (NAcc)
null hypothesis
Obama, Barack
Objectivism
obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD)
Olds, James
“On Being Sane in Insane Places” (Rosenhan)
one-trial learning
On Liberty (Mill)
Ono, Koichi
On the Fabric of the Human Body (Vesalius)
On the Magnet and Magnetic Bodies (Gilbert)
On the Origin of Species (Darwin)
“oppression-redemption” myth
orbital frontal cortex
O’Reilly, Bill
orientation association area (OAA)
Original Theory, An (Wright)
Orion Nebula
Osiris (Egyptian god)
Outer Limits, The (TV show)
out-of-body experiences (OBEs)
Outside (magazine)
overinclusive cognitive style
oxygen deprivation
oxytocin
pain receptors