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  1. Caenorhabditis elegans
    ,
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
    n. 13
  2. calcium,
    1
  3. calculus,
    1
  4. Caledonian mountains,
    1
  5. California, University of, at Santa Barbara,
    1
  6. California Institute of Technology, Pasadena,
    1
    n. 23
  7. Cambridge,
    1
  8. camels,
    1
  9. Canada,
    1
    ,
    2
  10. cancer-causing chemicals,
    1
  11. capillaries,
    1
  12. capital,
    1
  13. capitalism,
    1
    ;
    1. free-market,
      1
      ;
    2. profit,
      1
      ;
    3. see also
      market, the
  14. carbon,
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
  15. carbon dioxide,
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
    ,
    4
    ,
    5
    n. 11,
    6
    n. 1
  16. Carlyle, Thomas,
    1
  17. carnivores,
    1
  18. Carnot, Sadi,
    1
    n. 7
  19. Carroll, Lewis,
    1
    ;
    1. Alice in Wonderland
      ,
      1
      ,
      2
      ;
    2. Through the Looking-Glass
      ,
      1
  20. cars,
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
    ,
    4
  21. Cassini spacecraft,
    1
  22. cattle,
    1
  23. cats,
    1
    ,
    2
    ;
  24. sabre-toothed,
    1
  25. cave-dwelling,
    1
  26. CDO (Collateralised Debt Obligation),
    1
  27. CDO-squared,
    1
  28. cells,
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
    ,
    4
    ,
    5
    ,
    6
    ;
    1. chemical signalling,
      1
      ,
      2
      ,
      3
      ,
      4
      n. 8;
    2. complexity,
      1
      ;
    3. cooperation,
      1
      ,
      2
      ,
      3
      ;
    4. communication,
      1
      ,
      2
      ;
    5. creation,
      1
      ,
      2
      ,
      3
      ,
      4
      ;
    6. and dehydration,
      1
      ;
    7. division,
      1
      ,
      2
      n. 8;
    8. and DNA,
      1
      ,
      2
      ,
      3
      ,
      4
      ,
      5
      ;
    9. electrical charge,
      1
      ,
      2
      ;
    10. fusion,
      1
      ;
    11. heat-sensitive,
      1
      ;
    12. integration,
      1
      ;
    13. ion channels,
      1
      ;
    14. light-sensitive,
      1
      ;
    15. membrane,
      1
      ,
      2
      ,
      3
      ,
      4
      ,
      5
      ,
      6
      ,
      7
      ,
      8
      ,
      9
      n. 5,
      10
      n. 7;
    16. microtubules,
      1
      ;
    17. nucleus,
      1
      ,
      2
      ,
      3
      ,
      4
      ,
      5
      ,
      6
      n. 12;
      7
      n. 10;
    18. protection,
      1
      ;
    19. and proteins,
      1
      ,
      2
      n. 5;
    20. reconstitution,
      1
      n. 5;
    21. size,
      1
      ;
    22. structure,
      1
      ,
      2
      ,
      3
      n. 5;
    23. transportation system,
      1
      ,
      2
      ;
    24. visual appearance,
      1
      ;
    25. voltage-gated ion channels,
      1
      ;
    26. see also
      apoptosis, blood cells, cytoplasm, endoplastic reticulum, Golgi
    27. apparatus, gonad cells, Krebs cycle, lysosomes, mitochondria, neurons, organelles, prokaryotes, ribosomes, vesicles
  29. Celsius scale,
    1
    n. 10
  30. centrifugal force,
    1
    ,
    2
    n. 5
  31. cereal crops,
    1
  32. cerebellum,
    see
    brain
  33. cerebrovascular fluid,
    1
  34. cerebrum,
    see
    neocortex
  35. chalk,
    1
  36. Chandrasekhar, Subrahmanyan,
    1
  37. Chang, Ja-Hoon,
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
    ,
    4
    ,
    5
    ;
    1. 23
      Things They Don’t Tell You About Capitalism
      ,
      1
  38. chaos theory,
    1
  39. chemistry and chemists,
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
    ,
    4
    ,
    5
    ,
    6
    ,
    7
    ,
    8
  40. Cherenkov light,
    1
    n. 7
  41. Chicago School,
    1
  42. chickens,
    1
  43. child bearing,
    1
  44. child labour,
    1
  45. child rearing,
    1
  46. Chile,
    1
    ,
    2
  47. chimpanzees,
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
    ,
    4
    ,
    5
    ,
    6
    ;
    1. DNA,
      1
      ,
      2
      ,
      3
      ;
    2. see also
      hominins
  48. China,
    1
    ,
    2
  49. chips,
    see
    microchips
  50. chlorophyll,
    1
  51. chloroplasts,
    1
    n. 6
  52. chromatin,
    1
    n. 10
  53. chromosomes,
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
    ,
    4
    n. 10;
    5
    n. 15;
    1. number,
      1
      ;
    2. X,
      1
      ;
    3. Y,
      1
      ;
    4. see also
      SRY
  54. Church, George,
    1
    n. 8
  55. Churchill, Winston,
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
    n. 1
  56. cilia,
    1
  57. civilisation,
    1
    ,
    2
  58. Clarke, Arthur C.,
    1
    ;
    1. 2001: A Space Odyssey
      ,
      1
  59. Clarkson University, New York,
    1
    n. 8
  60. Clausius, Rudolf,
    1
  61. climate,
    1
  62. climate change,
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
    ,
    4
  63. Clinton, Bill,
    1
    ,
    2
    n. 2
  64. clothing,
    1
    ,
    2
  65. coal,
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
    ,
    4
    ,
    5
    ,
    6
    ,
    7
    n. 5,
    8
    n. 1
  66. Coase, Ronald,
    1
  67. cobbles,
    1
  68. colour,
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
    ;
    1. spectrum,
      1
      ,
      2
      n. 11
  69. comets,
    1
    ,
    2
    n. 2
  70. commerce,
    see
    trade
  71. commodities,
    1
    ,
    2
  72. communism,
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
  73. compass, magnetic,
    1
    ,
    2
    n. 12
  74. computers,
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
    ,
    4
    ,
    5
    ,
    6
    ,
    7
    ,
    8
    ;
    1. adders,
      1
      ,
      2
      ;
    2. AND/OR
      gates,
      1
      ;
    3. circuits,
      1
      ;
    4. desktop,
      1
      ;
    5. gates,
      1
      ;
    6. halting problem,
      1
      ;
    7. integrated circuits,
      1
      ,
      2
      n. 10;
    8. laptops,
      1
      ;
    9. logic gates,
      1
      ,
      2
      ,
      3
      ;
    10. magnetic medium,
      1
      ;
    11. memory,
      1
      ;
    12. PCs,
      1
      ;
    13. power,
      1
      ,
      2
      n. 2;
    14. programming,
      1
      ,
      2
      ,
      3
      ;
    15. speed,
      1
      ;
    16. see also
      microchips, silicon, transistors, uncomputability
  75. Conan Doyle, Arthur,
    1
    n. 1
  76. conductors: electricity,
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
    n. 5,
    4
    n. 15;
    1. heat,
      1
      n. 8;
    2. see also
      wire coil, conducting conic sections,
      1
      n. 10
  77. Conklin, Edwin Grant,
    1
  78. consciousness,
    1
  79. continental crust,
    1
    ,
    2
    n. 7
  80. continental drift,
    1
  81. continents,
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
  82. cooking,
    1
  83. Copernicus, Nicolaus,
    1
  84. copper,
    1
    n. 15
  85. Coriolis force,
    1
    n. 10
  86. corpus calossum,
    see
    neocortex
  87. cosmic background radiation,
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
    ,
    4
    ,
    5
    ,
    6
    n. 2,
    7
    nn. 3, 4;
    8
    n. 5,
    9
    n. 8,
    10
    n. 14;
    1. temperature,
      1
      ,
      2
  88. cosmic rays,
    1
    n. 14
  89. cosmic speed limit,
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
    ,
    4
    ,
    5
    n. 9
  90. cosmology and cosmologists,
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
    n. 5;
    1. precision cosmology,
      1
      n. 18
  91. craft and craftsmen,
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
  92. creationism,
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
    ,
    4
    ,
    5
    n. 4
  93. credit cards,
    1
  94. credit-rating agencies,
    1
  95. Crick, Francis,
    1
    n. 6
  96. Cringely, Robert X.,
    1
    ,
    2
    n. 14
  97. Cro-Magnons,
    1
  98. crops,
    see
    farming
  99. crystal,
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
    n. 8
  100. cuneiform,
    1
  101. curiosity,
    1
    ,
    2
  102. Curzon, Paul,
    1
    n. 6
  103. cyanobacteria,
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
    ,
    4
    n. 6
  104. cyclones,
    see
    weather systems
  105. Cygnus X-1,
    1
  106. cystic fibrosis,
    1
  107. cytoplasm,
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
    ,
    4

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