Science in popular culture : a reference guide /
"Spaceships travel through time at lightspeed, piloted by human clones and talking animals. Serious injuries are healed with the wave of a medical gizmo. The media makes it all look easy Can scientists hope to accomplish such amazing feats in the real world, or are they merely flights of fancy?...
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Westport, CT :
Greenwood Press,
2002.
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Table of Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: Science in Popular Culture 1
- Acceleration 3
- Action and Reaction, Law of 5
- Alternate Worlds 7
- Androids 10
- Atomic Energy 13
- Chimpanzees 18
- Cloning 21
- Comets 27
- Computers 30
- Cryonics 35
- Cyborgs 38
- Darwin, Charles 41
- Death Rays 45
- Dinosaurs 48
- Dolphins 53
- Dreams 56
- Earthquakes 59
- Eclipses 63
- Einstein, Albert 66
- Electricity 69
- Elephants 73
- Epidemics 76
- Evolution 80
- Evolution, Convergent 84
- Evolution, Human 87
- Experiments 91
- Experiments on Self 95
- Extinction 98
- Flying Cars 101
- Food Pills 104
- Franklin, Benjamin 107
- Galileo 111
- Genes 115
- Genetic Engineering 119
- Gorillas 123
- Gravity 126
- Houses, Smart 132
- Ideas, Resistance to 135
- Inertia 139
- Insects 141
- Insects, Giant 147
- Intelligence, Animal 150
- Intelligence, Artificial 153
- Intelligence, Human 156
- Life, Extraterrestrial 161
- Life, Origin of 166
- Lightning 169
- Longevity 173
- Magnetism 176
- Mars 179
- Matter Transmission 183
- Meteorites 186
- Mind Control 190
- Miniaturization 193
- Miracle Drugs 196
- Moon 199
- Mutations 203
- Newton, Isaac 206
- Organ Transplants 210
- Prehistoric Humans 213
- Prehistoric Time 217
- Psychic Powers 220
- Race 223
- Radiation 229
- Relativity 232
- Religion and Science 235
- Reproduction 239
- Robots 242
- Scientific Theories 248
- Sharks 252
- Space Travel, Interplanetary 256
- Space Travel, Interstellar 262
- Speed of Light 268
- Speed of Sound 271
- Superhumans 274
- Time Travel 279
- UFOs 284
- Vacuum 287
- Venus 290
- Volcanoes 294
- Whales 298.