INDEX of The Parallel Bang:

Adrenaline, 49, 156

Agriculture, 9, 26, 34, 37, 76, 77, 81

Alvarez, Dr. Walter, 65, 88

Asteroids, 65, 88, 126, 127

Astrobiology, 12

Atoms, 11, 17, 28, 89, 130, 133, 136

Autism, 52, 57

Brain, human, 10, 13, 16, 17, 18, 27, 28, 29, 30, 32, 33, 46, 47, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 55, 60, 61, 63, 64, 65, 67, 69, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 81, 83, 85, 91, 93, 101, 103, 110, 111, 113, 114, 115, 117, 120, 121, 139, 140, 147, 155

Brownlee, Dr. Donald, 30

Cambridge University, 74

Chemistry, 26, 49, 88, 108, 123

Children, 42, 68, 101, 104

China, 23, 155

Clarke, Dr. Arthur C, 25, 127

Cognitive Science, 11, 15, 18, 38, 39, 40, 43, 48, 50, 53, 55, 58, 60, 67, 73, 78, 86, 94, 108, 109, 110, 111, 138, 155

Communication, 38, 92, 93, 95, 100, 120

Computers, 10, 11, 13, 14, 22, 36, 37, 62, 73, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 100, 102, 105, 106, 112, 113, 114, 131, 132, 134, 139, 147, 148

Crick, Dr. Francis, 16

Critical Mass of Thought, 16, 28, 61, 63, 73, 88, 90, 91, 114, 136, 137

Cro Magnon Man, 31, 32

Culture, 22, 24, 25, 35, 57, 70, 73, 83, 115

Curie, Madame Marie, 16

Davies, Dr. Paul, 12

Dawkins, Dr. Richard, 64, 65, 66, 131

Delbrük, Dr Max, 88, 89

Democritus of Abdera, 130

Diamond, Dr. Jared, 25, 33

Diversity, 52, 55

DNA, 17, 32, 64, 88, 89, 130, 131, 132, 139

Dopamine, 49, 54

Earth, 30, 35, 65, 66, 102, 122, 123, 124, 125, 126, 128, 131, 148

Education, 39, 61, 79, 81, 82, 95, 100, 113, 119, 154, 155, 160

Einstein, Dr. Albert, 16, 47, 52, 56

Emergence, 50, 83, 97, 126, 136, 138, 139, 144

Feynman, Dr. Richard, 16

Franklin, Dr. Rosalind, 8, 16, 56

Galaxies, 17, 26, 28, 123, 128, 129, 138

Galilei, Galileo, 16, 63, 66, 142

Genes, 27, 33, 37, 53, 58, 64, 65, 66, 130, 147

Great Leap Forward, 32

Harvard, 51, 53, 61

Hawking, Dr. Stephen, 16

Homo Erectus, 31, 92

Homo Sapiens, 26, 31, 33

Internet, 101, 116

Inverted B-Trees, 104

Kepler, Johannes, 16, 63

Kurzweil, Dr. Ray, 9, 105

Languages 103, 107

Laws, 10, 11, 36, 94, 97, 100, 114

Left-handedness, 46, 54, 55, 56, 61

Leucippus of Miletus, 130

Life, 7, 9, 11, 14, 23, 26, 28, 30, 32, 42, 46, 60, 66, 68, 79, 85, 86, 87, 88, 92, 115, 120, 123, 125, 126, 131, 146, 147, 148, 155, 156, 157, 158

Life expectancy, 9, 11, 85

Mandelbrot Set, Dr. Benoit

Mandelbrot, 139, 140, 141, 143

Mars, 54, 125, 127

Maxwell, James Clerk, 16

Medicine, 9, 26, 110

Melatonin, 49, 110

Memes, 53, 65, 66, 67, 73, 83, 85, 92, 93, 101, 104, 106, 117, 119, 120, 122, 137, 146, 147

Mendel, Gregor, 16

Money & Trade, 77, 115, 119,

156, 158

Moon, 9, 63, 94, 125, 127, 143

Moore's Law, 10, 11, 36, 94, 97, 100

MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging), 135

Nature, 9, 10, 12, 55, 92, 133, 134, 142, 145

Negroponte, Dr. Nicholas, 100

Neurons, 42, 43, 44, 47, 67, 89, 108, 147

Newton, Sir Isaac, 16, 26, 63

Nurture, 32, 52

OLPC (One Laptop Per Child)

Foundation, 100, 102

Oxytocin, 49

Patents, 39, 60, 71, 75, 113

PET (positron Emission tomography) scans, 48

Population, 9, 22, 34, 35, 55, 60, 68, 74, 75, 76, 77, 80, 81, 82, 85, 86, 87, 100, 115, 145

Proteins, 42, 89, 130, 131, 132, 139

Proteomics, 132

Psychopharmacology, 73, 109

Quaoar, 124

Religions, 9, 35, 66, 68, 71, 113, 117, 119, 120, 121

Renaissance, 23, 24, 34, 37, 86, 92, 156

RFID (Radio Frequency

Identifier tags, 15

Roberts' Law, 97, 100

Rutherford, Dr. Ernst, 16, 133

Sagan, Dr. Carl, 30, 159

Schrödinger, Dr. Erwin, 16

Science, 8, 9, 12, 19, 73, 80, 82, 88, 90, 98, 103, 105, 108, 109, 119, 120, 122, 138, 160

Serotonin, 49, 52

Smalley, Dr. Richard, 16

Solar Energy, 12, 27, 62, 64, 98, 104, 124, 125, 126

Space and Microgravity, 9, 19,

27, 55, 79, 123, 125, 126, 127, 128, 134, 136, 138, 139, 157, 158

Speed, 11, 62, 63, 100

Stock, Dr. Gregory, 62

Summers, Dr. Lawrence, 53, 61

Technology, 9, 12, 23, 25, 31, 34, 36, 37, 77, 78, 80, 82, 92, 97, 99, 115, 154, 159

Thermodynamics, 136, 142, 143, 144, 145

Third World, 115

Thompson, Lord Kelvin, 16

Toffler, Alvin, 9

Universe, Parallel, 2, 4, 98, 117, 148, 159, 161, 162

Universe, Physical, 13, 14, 15, 16, 18, 22, 27, 28, 30, 32, 34, 36, 44, 46, 51, 52, 54, 58, 71, 76, 79, 86, 92, 97, 111, 133, 134, 136, 138

Valium, 49, 110

Veneziano, Dr. Gabriele, 16

Venter, Dr. Craig, 16

Voltaire, 149

Ward, Dr. Peter, 30

Watson, Dr. James, 16

Weiser, Dr. Mark, 96

Women, 79, 81, 82

World Wide Web, 2, 4, 37, 51, 117, 155, 160, 162

Xerox Corporation, 95, 159