What a Wonderful World (36 page)
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Authors: Marcus Chown
- habitat destruction,
1 - Hadley, George,
1 - Hadley circulation cells,
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n. 12 - haemoglobin,
1 - hair,
1 - Haines, John,
1 - half-life,
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n. 2 - hallucinations,
1 - Hamilton, Andy,
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n. 9 - Hannibal,
1 - haploid,
1 - Hartle, Jim,
1 - Hartley, L. P.,
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2 - Hartley
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, Comet,
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n. 3 - Harvard Medical School,
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n. 8 - Harvard University,
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n. 13 - harvesting,
1 - Hawaii,
1 - Hawking, Stephen,
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n. 5 - Hawking radiation,
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n. 5 - Hawthorne, Nathaniel,
1 - H-bomb,
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nuclear bomb - heart,
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n. 10 - heart attack,
1 - heart rate,
1 - heat,
see
energy: heat - Heat Death,
1 - heat loss,
1 - heavy water
see
deuterium - Heidelberg, Germany,
1 - Heisenberg, Werner,
1 - Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle,
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n. 15 - helium,
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n. 21,
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n. 6,
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n. 16 - heroin,
1 - Hertz, Heinrich,
1 - heterosexuality,
1 - Higgs, Peter,
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n. 5 - Higgs boson,
1 - Higgs field,
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n. 5 - Higgs mechanism,
1 - Higgs particle,
1 - Himalayas,
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3 - hippocampus,
see
limbic system - histones,
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n. 10 - holograms,
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2 - hominins,
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n. 2;- see also australopithecines, Australopithecus afarensis, Australopithecus anamensis, chimpanzees, Homo erectus, Homo floresiensis, Homo heidelbergensis,
human beings, Neanderthals
- see also australopithecines, Australopithecus afarensis, Australopithecus anamensis, chimpanzees, Homo erectus, Homo floresiensis, Homo heidelbergensis,
- Homo erectus
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;- migration,
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- migration,
- Homo floresiensis
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1 - Homo heidelbergensis
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1 - Homo sapiens
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1 - homosexuality,
1 - Hooke, Robert,
1 - hormones,
1 - horses,
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3 - Hoyle, Fred,
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n. 5 - Hubble, Edwin,
1 - Hulse, Russell,
1 - human beings,
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; - Human Microbiome Project,
1 - hunter-gatherers,
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n. 2
supra
;- see also
gathering
- see also
- hunting,
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;- see also
hunter-gatherers
- see also
- hurricanes,
1 - Hutton, James,
1 - Huxley, Aldous,
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;- Brave New World
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- Brave New World
- Huxley, Thomas,
1 - hydrogen,
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nn. 2, 3, 4;
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nn. 6, 11;
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n. 2,
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n. 2,
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n. 21,
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n. 4,
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n. 6 - hydrogen bomb,
see
nuclear bomb - hyperbola,
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n. 10 - hypothalamus,
see
limbic system
- Iberian peninsula,
1 - IBM,
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n. 3 - ice,
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n. 3 - ice, fresh-water,
1 - ice ages,
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n. 22,
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n. 8;- see also
Snowball Earths
- see also
- ice caps,
1 - ice skating,
1 - Iceland,
1 - identity, personal,
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2 - imagination,
1 - immigration,
1 - immunity,
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2 - import tariffs,
1 - incandescence,
1 - Incas,
1 - incompleteness theorem,
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n. 4 - India,
1 - Indonesia,
1 - industrial revolution,
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3 - infinity,
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n. 10 - inflation,
1 - information,
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n. 4,
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n. 8,
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n. 14,
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n. 5,
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n. 14,
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n. 5 - information storage,
1 - InfoWorld
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n. 14 - inheritance,
1
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2 - Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton,
1 - insulation,
see
electricity: insulation - Intel,
1
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2 - intelligence, extraterrestrial,
1 - interbreeding,
1 - interglacial periods,
1 - internet,
1 - ion channels,
1 - ions,
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n. 6 - Iraq,
1 - iron,
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5 - iron oxide,
1 - isotopes,
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n. 3 - It’s Only a Theory
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n. 9
- labour,
1 - lactic acid,
1 - Laetoli, Tanzania,
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2 - lakes,
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n. 2 - land,
1 - Landau, Lev,
1 - Lane, Nick,
1 - language,
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6 - Large Hadron Collider,
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5 - Larkin, Philip,
1 - laser interferometer,
1 - lasers,
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3 - ‘last scattering, epoch of ’,
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n. 2,
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n. 10,
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n. 8,
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n. 14 - latitude,
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n. 11 - lava,
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2 - Lavoisier, Antoine,
1 - lead,
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2 - Leakey, Louis,
1 - Leakey, Mary,
1 - learning,
see
neurons - Leeson, Nick,
1 - Leeuwenhoek, Antonie van,
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2 - Leibniz, Gottfried,
1 - Lemaître, George,
1 - leptons,
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;- indistinguishability,
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- Lessing, Doris,
1 - Lewis, Gilbert Newton,
1 - LHB (Late Heavy Bombardment),
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n. 2 - light,
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n. 21,
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n. 14,
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n. 2;- bending,
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n. 4; - blue,
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; - laser,
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; - and matter,
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; - as particles,
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n. 4; - red,
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n. 9; - theory of,
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n. 11; - as waves,
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n. 21,
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n. 4; - see also
energy: light, lasers, light horizon, photons, red shift, ultraviolet light, wavelength, X-rays
- bending,
- light bulbs,
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n. 8 - light horizon,
1 - lightning,
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nn. 6, 7;
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n. 18,
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n. 19 - LIGO (Laser Interferometer Gravitational Observatory),
1 - limbic system,
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; - amygdala,
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; - lipids (fatty acids),
1 - liquids,
1 - literacy,
1 - lithium,
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2 - liver,
1 - liver cells,
1 - Livio, Mario,
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n. 23 - llamas,
1 - Llinás, Rodolfo R.,
1 - location,
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n. 5;- dual,
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- logic gate,
see
computers - Lorentz contraction,
1 - Lorenz, Edward,
1 - Los Angeles,
1 - Lovelock, James,
1 - LSD (lysergic acid diethylamide),
1 - LUCA (last universal common ancestor),
1 - lungs,
1 - Luther, Martin,
1 - lysosomes,
1
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