Benjamin, Walter The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction 700
Bentham, Jeremy 438–9
Beowulf 285
Berengarius of Tours 289
Berger, John Ways of Seeing 842
Bergson, Henri Laughter 609
Berkeley, George 192, 394
Berlin, Isaiah Two Concepts of Liberty 777
Bernal, Martin Black Athena: the Afroasiatic Roots of Classical Civilization 887
Bernard, Pierre Arnold 624
Berners-Lee, Tim 893, 903
Bernstein, Leonard 326
Bezos, Jeffrey P. 904
Bible 56, 59, 67, 79, 111, 112, 595
biblical canonical criticism 833
biblical form criticism 655
biblical narrative criticism 875
biblical psychological criticism 506
biblical redaction criticism 426
biblical rhetorical criticism 824
biblical socio-scientific criticism 621
biblical source criticism 412
biblical textual criticism 392
Book of Revelation 99
canonization of the Bible 261
feminist biblical exegesis 377
Midrash 256
postmodern biblical criticism 644
Big Bang theory 217, 676, 930
Big Brother 733
Big Crunch theory 930
binary code 728
binding problem 577
Bing, Siegfried 589
biobanks 937
biological warfare 135
birth control 93
Bismarck, Otto von 559
black holes 433
Black Power 810
Blavatsky, Helena 112, 300
The Secret Doctrine 571
blogging 918
bloodletting 252
Bloom, Saul 54
Bloom’s Taxonomy 765
blues music 638
Boas, Antonio 773
Boas, Franz 574
Boethius 258
Consolation of Philosophy 59, 76, 146
Bohr, Niels 670
Bolyai, János 229
Bombelli, Rafael 334
Bonomo, Tico 737
Borel, Émile 643
Bouchon, Basile 400
Bowen, Murray 762
Boyle, Robert 167, 368, 441
Bradley, F. H. 159, 627
Bradwardine, Thomas 170
Brahmagupta 97
braille 462
Braithwaite, John Crime, Shame, and Reintegration 892
Braque, George 631
breakdancing 837
Brentano, Franz 563
Brest, Paul 871
Breton, André 656
Breuil, Henri 33
Britten, Benjamin 326
Brookes, William Penny 496
Brunelleschi 168
Bruno, Giordano 336
Buddhism 59, 85, 86, 103, 104, 105, 107, 108, 112
arhat 148
bodhisattva 235
Four Noble Truths 146
influence of Daoism 136
influence of Zoroastrianism 109
nirvana 103, 107, 145, 146
Zen 275, 295
Buffet, Warren 935
Burckhardt, Jacob 517
Buridan, John 210
Burke, Edmund Reflections on the Revolution in France 444
bushidõ 280
Butler, Robert Neil 830
butterfly effect 825
Byron, Lord George Manfred 141
C
Cage, John 744, 755
calculus 152
calendars 58
Caligula 94
Calvinism 328
Cambridge Cable Network 903
Camus, Albert The Myth of Sisyphus 709
Cann, Rebecca 887
cannibalism 22
Cantor, Georg 133, 542
Capek, Karel 663
capoeira 330
Carlsson, Arvid 879
Carmichael, Stokely 810
Carnot, Nicolas Léonard Sadi 467
Carpentier, Alejo 734
carpooling 710
Carrel, Alexis 615
Carson, Rachel Silent Spring 789
Carter, Brandon 845
cartoons 484
caste system, India 103, 104, 107
casuistry 173
catastrophism 79
categorical logic 207
causation 205, 305
Cayce, Edgar 112
Cayley, Arthur 229
Cayley, George 457, 485
CCTV for crime prevention 849
cell phones 881, 932
cells 370, 856
cell theory 479
Cervantes, Miguel de Don Quixote 344
chakras 107
Chalmers, David The Conscious Mind 911
chance favors the prepared mind 501
chaos theory 794
Charles I 94
Chaucer, Geoffrey 285
Chekhov, Anton 140
chemical elements 441
chemical substance 368
chemotherapy 727
Cherbury, Lord Herbert 353
Chesterton, G. K. 632
chicken and egg conundrum 200
child development 668
child-centered child rearing 718
Childress, James F. Principles of Biomedical Ethics 870
Childs, Brevard 833
Chinese room argument 872
Chisholm, Roderick 227
Chomsky, Noam 532, 766, 772
Choron, Alexandre-Étienne 459
Christianity 56, 59, 65, 85, 86, 97, 99, 100, 109, 112, 121, 157, 214, 255, 261
Christian fundamentalism 595
Christian universalism 258
consubstantiation 289
Crusades 221
Easter 246
Free Rein Defense (FRD) 248
grace 239
Holy Trinity 253
Messiah 116
millenialism 119
missions 84
modern Christian apologetics 632
original sin 251
plainchant 240
Protestantism 126, 260, 261, 323, 324, 326, 328
Roman Catholicism 96, 126, 159, 352, 505, 536, 549
Roman Empire 155
scapegoat 117
Second Coming 239
Ten Commandments 122
three theological virtues 241
transubstantiation 283
Christmas 259, 260
Chrysippus 207, 231
Church of England 326
Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster 933
Cicé, Jérôme Champion de 441
Cicero 166, 263
civil disobedience 495
Clark, John Bates 569
Classicism 168
Clausius, Rudolf 467, 505
Cleisthenes 151
Climacus, John The Ladder of Divine Ascent 273
clock, mechanical 306
cloning 915
clothing 24
dyeing cloth 44
ready-made clothing 474
Codd, Edgar F. 830
codependency 835
coffeehouses 319
cognitive fluidity 914
cognitivism 766
coherence theory of truth 627
colonialism 84
Columbus, Christopher 59
comedy 149
Comenius, John Amos Orbis Pictus 367
Communism 492
comparative psychology 538
compatibilism 412
Comte, Auguste 461, 470
Confucianism 136, 778, 813
Confucian virtues 152
connectionism 597
conspicuous consumption 600
Constantine I 221
constructivism 617
constructivist epistemology 820
consubstantiation 289
consumerism 605
contact lens 355
contactless smart card 917
continental drift 337
conventionalism 171
Cooper, David Psychiatry and Anti-Psychiatry 819
Copenhagen Interpretation 670
Copernicus, Nicolaus 159, 184, 328, 430
Corneille, Pierre 140, 141
correspondence theory of truth 616
cosmetics 521
cosmopolis 215
Coué, Émile 661
counterculture 827
counterfactuals 721
country music 658
Cournot, Antoine 478
courtly love 288
Craigslist 908
Cranach, Lucas, the Elder 324
creatio ex nihilo 249
creation myths 49, 167
credit cards 741
Creighton, Bishop Mandell 190
cremation 65
Crick, Francis 370, 756, 855
crowd psychology 591
Crutzen, Paul J. 924
cryonics and cryogenics 804
cryptozoology 765
Cubism 631
Cullen, William 414
cultural hegemony 672
cultural relativism 574
Curie, Pierre and Marie 599
Cuvier, Georges 79
cybernetics 726
cynicism 176
D
da Vinci, Leonardo 156, 168, 180, 271, 485, 516
Dadaism 645
Dalberg-Acton, Sir John 190
Dalton, John 177, 368, 817
dance 334, 337, 575, 685, 837, 922
dandyism 443
Danto, Arthur 799
Daoism 31, 67, 136
wu wei 136, 139
Yijing (I Ching) 82, 126
ju 138
dark energy 918, 930
dark matter 690
dark night sky paradox 464
Darwin, Charles 184, 200, 214, 449, 458, 518, 532, 538, 549, 561, 798, 875, 910
Darwinism 517
last universal ancestor 512
natural selection 511
sexual selection 515
see also evolution
databases 809
relational databases 830
Davy, Humphry 94
Dawkins, Richard 643, 860
The Selfish Gene 862
daylight saving time (DST) 589
De Bono, Edward
Six Thinking Hats 883
The Use of Lateral Thinking 821
De Forest, Lee 657
De l’Épée, Charles-Michel 418
De Lauretis, Teresa 898
De Morgan’s laws 498
dead, honoring 24
Egyptian funerary art 71
death drive 664
Debord, Guy 823
decentralized energy (DE) 917
decimal system 371
Declaration of Rights 441
deconstruction 814
Dedekind, Richard 133, 152
deflationary theory of truth 649
deism 353
Delitzsch, Franz 506
delusion 640
democracy 149, 151
democratic peace theory 802, 850
Democritus 154, 159, 177, 180, 181, 368
demons 159
Derrida, Jacques 814
Descartes, René 154, 221, 224, 292, 293, 355–61, 384, 543, 758
descriptions, theory of 623
desert versus merit 839
determinism 163, 181
Devil 112
Dewey, John 471, 617
dharma 103, 104
Diagoras of Melos 100
Dibelius, Martin 655
Dickens, Charles 503
Dickson, William 582
dictionaries 75
dietary laws 122
Diogenes 176
Dirac, Paul 573, 679
Divine Command 171, 174
divine right of kings 338
DNA 370, 479, 756
gene therapy 841
genetic engineering 855
mitochondrial Eve 887
not-junk DNA 941
Y-chromosomal Adam 927
Donne, John 342
doppelganger 449
Doppler effect 483
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor The Grand Inquisitor 557
doublethink 733
Downs, Anthony 775
downsizing 883
Dozens, The 635
Drake equation 784
drama 140
comedy 149
satire 175
tragedy 141, 437
dream interpretation 602
Dresher, Melvin 743
Dresser, Christopher 516
Driesch, Hans 251
DSM (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders) 756
duck-rabbit illusion 603
Duns Scotus 293
Durkheim, Emile 586
E
Easter 246
eBay 907
Eddington, Arthur 662
Edison, Thomas 340, 476, 547
education
compulsory 191
equal education for women 445
Gradgrind’s 503
Montessori 596
Steiner 629
Egyptian funerary art 71
Einstein, Albert 184, 195, 648, 674, 686
general relativity 383, 647, 648, 918
special relativity 623, 648
Eisenhower, Dwight D. 786
Eitel, Ernest Feng-shui: The rudiments of natural science in China 60
El Greco 324
Eldredge, Niles 844
electricity 340
electrolysis 477
electromagnetic theory 528
Elgar, Edward 326
elixir of life 231
Elizabeth I 94, 237
emergency rooms 637
emergentism 487
Emerson, Ralph Waldo 471
Empedocles 159, 167, 170, 206
empiricism 166, 384, 748, 787
Empiricus 221
ENCODE (Encyclopedia of DNA Elements) 941
encyclopedias 243
end justifies the means 179
Engels, Friedrich 205, 461, 492
Enlightenment 59, 141, 267, 323, 388, 432, 777, 778
enlightened despot 487
enneagram 744
entropy 505
Epic of Gilgamesh 43, 73, 76, 79, 80
Epicurus 136, 181, 205, 215, 227
epigenetics 211, 458, 708
equal temperament (ET) 207
Equitrade 934
Erasistratus 71
Erasmus, Desiderius In Praise of Folly 320
Etchemendy, John 212
eternal flux 151
eternal return 217
eternal stasis 159
Euclid 180, 195, 219, 687
Euclid-Euler theorem 245
mathematical proof 223
prime numbers 223
The Elements 222
eugenics 549, 561
Euler, Leonhard 245, 394, 403, 431
Euler’s number (e) 402
Euripides 141
European single currency 891
Evangelicalism 376
Everett, Hugh, III 775
evil 50, 248, 508
banality of evil 792
evil genius 361
problem of evil 227
evolution
Baldwin Effect 593
devolution 500
evo-devo 923
Handicap Principle 860
Lamarckian evolution 458
memes 862
punctuated equilibrium 844
see also Darwin, Charles
existential nihilism 170, 248, 703, 709
exorcism 96, 159
expanding circle 871
Expressionism in art 577
Expressionism in music 631
eyeglasses 302
Eysenck, Hans 177
F
fables 134
Fairtrade 888
Faisal II of Iraq 94
fallacy 210, 214
False Tidal Theory 349
falsifiability 691
family therapy 762
Fanon, Frantz The Wretched of the Earth 783
Faraday, Michael 476, 477
Farber, Sidney 727
Farnsworth, Philo Taylor 672
Fascism 593
fatalism 163
Feist, Wolfgang 889
feminism 442
feminist biblical exegesis 377
feng shui 60
Fermat’s Last Theorem 359, 486
Fermi, Enrico 693, 784
Fermi paradox 743
feudalism 280
Feuerbach, Ludwig 500
Feyerabend, Paul Explanation, Reduction, and Empiricism 787
Feynman diagrams 725
Fibonacci numbers 298
fideism 255
fire, human control of 22
Fisher, Irving 637
flash mob 930
flat Earth myth 59
Fleming, Alexander 678
flight 271
commercial air travel 485
commercial space flight 940
heavier-than-air-flight 457
flood myths 79, 786
Flood, Merrill 743
Flynn effect 886
Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier de 129
food, preserving 39
artificial preservation of food 414
pasteurization 523
form follows function 595
Formalism in art 194
Foucault, Michel 438
Madness and Civilization 781
Fountain of Youth 163
four causes 212
four elements 130, 133, 167
all is water 130
fifth element 199
Four Noble Truths 146
Fourier, Joseph 465
Fox, George 363
fractals 858
frame problem 829
Frankfurt, Harry 227
Franklin, Benjamin 302, 321, 353
Frederick I Barbarossa, Holy Roman Emperor 182
Free Rein Defense (FRD) 248
Free Will Defense 267
Freecycle Network (TFN) 932
freedom of speech 149
freedom to choose otherwise 227
Freemasonry 399
Frege, Gottlob 207, 231, 551, 553, 584, 649
French Revolution 100, 441, 444, 446
Freud, Sigmund 579, 602, 664
Freudian slip 579
Oedipus complex 636
Friedan, Betty The Feminist Mystique 794
Friedmann, Theodore 841
friendship 208
Fujiwara no Shunzei 293
Fukuyama, Francis 99
The End of History 895
functionalism 809
Futurism 633
G
Gabor, Dennis 730
Gaia hypothesis 840
Galen 71, 177, 251, 252
Galileo Galilei 159, 184, 232, 328, 347, 356
False Tidal Theory 349
laws of falling bodies 343, 383
Gall, Franz Joseph 455
Galton, Francis 532, 549, 561
Gambler’s Fallacy 450
game theory 713
Gandhi, Mahatma 103, 495
satyagraha 627
Gardner, Gerald 761
Gardner, Howard Frames of Mind: The Theory of Multiple Intelligences 881
Gardner, John P. 906
Garns, Howard 868
Garrow, William 444
Garvey, Marcus 685
Gauss, Carl Friedrich 229, 402, 477
Gell-Mann, Murray 854
gene therapy 841
generalization 214
generational attitudes 898
generative grammar 772
genetic determinism 560
genetic engineering 855
genetically modified (GM) food 884
geocentrism 196, 206
geological deep time 436
germ theory of disease 469
Gestalt psychology 640
Gettier, Edmund 189
Gettier problems 793
Gettysburg Address 520
Ghost Dance 575
ghosts 49
Gide, André 644
Gilbert, William 340
Glashow, Sheldon 817, 854
Global Positioning System (GPS) 851
global village 797
GloFish 921
Gnosticism 109, 246, 267
God, all-powerful 119, 127, 171, 174, 248, 249, 305, 373, 390, 456
death of God 559
ontological argument for God 292
paradox of omnipotence 270
Gödel, Kurt 687
Godwin’s Law 897
golden ratio 156, 168
Gompertz, Lewis 467
Gonesius, Peter 331
Gong Zhiyuan 921
Goodman, Nelson 721
Gore, Tipper 895
Gorgias 170
Gothic ideal 168, 290
Gouges, Olympe de 442
Gould, Stephen Jay 844
grace 239
gradualism 449
Gramsci, Antonio 672
grandfather paradox 712
graph theory 403
gratuitous act 644
gravity 206, 343, 383
Gray, Henry Anatomy 508
Gray, Thomas Elegy in a Country Churchyard 236
Great Chain of Being 189
Greenberg, Clement 194
Greene, Brian 146
greenhouse effect 465
Gregory XV, Pope 352
grief, five stages of 827
Grinder, John 861
Grodzins, Morton 770
Gropius, Walter 655
gross national happiness 843
Gross, David 846
Grossteste, Bishop Richard 300
Grotius, Hugo 344
groupthink 755
Gruber, Tom 899
guideline daily amounts (GDAs) 920
guilds 287
gunpowder 285
Gutenberg, Johannes 235, 311
Gutiérrez, Gustavo A Theology of Liberation 839
Guttman, Ludwig 752
gymnastics 55
H
Habermas, Jürgen The Theory of Communicative Action 877
Haeckel, Ernst 529
Hagerman, Richard 912
Hahnemann, Samuel 450
Halloween 126
Hamann, Johann Georg 411
Hamilton, William Rowan 486
Hamilton’s Rule 798
Hammurabi, Code of 43, 81, 86, 89, 93
hand-washing in hospitals 491
Handel, George Frideric 341
Handicap Principle 860
Hannibal 135
happenings 770
Hardin, Garrett 853
Hardy, Thomas Jude the Obscure 141
Harrington, Michael 850
Hathaway, Starke 704
Hawking, Stephen 648, 934
Haydn, Joseph 411
Hayek, Friedrich von The Road to Serfdom 714
Hayes, Patrick 829
Hays Code 682
healthcare, universal 559
Healy, Alice F. 864
Heaven and Hell 56
hedonism 136
Hedonistic Paradox 543
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich 129, 151, 492
Hegelianism 473
Heidegger, Martin 675
Heisenberg, Werner 676
heliocentrism 196, 328
hell is other people 714
Hellenism 217
Henderson, Bobby 933
Henry VIII 326, 537
Henson, William 485
Heraclitus 151
Herodotus 163, 164
heroes 120
Heron of Alexandria 61, 334, 397
Herophilus 71
Hertog, Thomas 934
Hesiod 124, 129, 170
Heuvelmans, Bernard 765
Hick, John 157
Hicks, Angie 906
hierarchy of needs 713
Higgs, Peter 801
Hilbert, David 222
Hilbert’s axioms 605
Hinduism 49, 50, 59, 67, 73, 86, 97, 99, 107, 109, 112, 145
avatars 114
Vedas 100, 103, 104, 105, 108
vegetarianism 123, 144
Yoga Sutras of Patanjali 234
Yoga Vasistha 228
Hipparchus 232
Hippocrates 177
Hippocratic Oath 179, 182
history 164
end of history 895
historian’s fallacy 555
stages of history 400
Hitchcock, Alfred 856
Hitler, Adolf 535, 897
Hobbes, Thomas Leviathan 365, 416, 837
Holocaust 535, 697, 897
holography 730
Holst, Gustav 326
Holy Grail 295
Holy Trinity 253
Homans, George 783
homeopathy 450
Homer 49, 59, 120, 129, 170
homophony 314
homunculus 201, 211
Hong Kong Mass Transit Railway (MTR) 917
Hooke, Robert 370, 374, 479
Horace 175
Howe, Neil Generations 898
Hubbard, L. Ron 112, 751
Hubble, Edwin 676, 918
Hubble’s Law 674
Hudson, George Vernon 589
human sacrifice 46
Hume, David 227, 257, 321, 361, 384, 388, 408, 412
is/ought fallacy 403
humorism 177
Husserl, Edmund 609
Hutton, James 436, 449
Huxley, Aldous 323, 761
Huxley, Thomas 100, 517, 543
Huygens, Christiaan 379
hylomorphism 208
Hymn to Ninkasi 43
hypotheses 199
I
I know that I do not know 165
I think, therefore I am 361
Ibsen, Henrik 140
Ichazo, Oscar 744
iconoclasm 278
id, ego, and superego 664
idealism 192
identity of indiscernibles 381
identity theft 801
illusionism 490
Immaculate Conception 505
immortality 80
impossible object 694
Impressionism in art 541
Impressionism in music 558
incarnation 85
incompleteness theorem 687
indeterminism 205
industrial design 516
inferiority complex 658
infinite monkey theorem 643
infinitesimal calculus 380
infinity 133, 152
infinity of inhabited worlds 336
inflation 473
infomercials 737
information theory 728
infotainment 855
inheritance 81
innatism 154, 166
insurance, AD&D 497
intellect and will 267
intellectual property 154
intentional fallacy 718
intentionality 563
Internet 140, 893
blogging 918
RSA algorithm 864
social networking services 867
virtual workplaces 925
invisible hand 425
Irenaeus 248, 249, 251
is/ought fallacy 403
Islam 36, 62, 65, 85, 86, 94, 99, 109, 112, 157, 214
Deobandi 408
Five Pillars of Islam 275
Islamic State 276
jihad 273
ISO (International Organization for Standardization) 722
isolationism 362
J
Jackson, Andrew 473
Jaenisch, Rudolf 855
Jainism 59, 103, 104, 107, 123, 148
James I and VI 338
James, William 91, 255, 471, 550, 552, 577, 590, 601
Jaspers, Karl 640
Jastrow, Joseph 603
jazz music 635
Jefferson, Thomas 321, 338, 353, 425, 455, 688
Jenner, Edward 286
jewelry 28
Jigme Singye Wangchuck, King of Bhutan 843
jihad 273
Joachim, H. H. 627
Johnson, Samuel A Dictionary of the English Language 75, 319
Johnston, Ben 143
Jones, William 394
Jonson, Ben 140, 177
ju 138
Judaism 65, 85, 86, 99, 109, 111, 112, 157, 221
Kabbalah 306
Messiah 116
Passover 99, 121
Ten Commandments 122
Judgment Day 65
Jung, Carl 126, 255, 791
archetypes 652
just war 263
justified true belief 189
Juvenal 175
juvenile courts 599
K
Kabbalah 306
Kaku, Ryuzaburo 886
Kama Sutra 264
Kant, Immanuel 136, 174, 176, 177, 195, 196, 219, 227, 361, 408, 430–1
enlightenment 432
first and second categorical imperatives 435
Kant’s Copernican turn 430
Third Critique 443
Kao Yang, Emperor of China 271
Kaprow, Allan 770
karma 103, 104, 107, 148
Keats, John 285
Kelling, George 613
Kelvin, Lord, William Thompson 340, 467
Kepler, Johannes 159, 302, 349
Kevorkian, Jack 179
Keynesian economics 695
Kierkegaard, Søren 170, 255, 488
Kilvington, Richard 170
kin selection 798
kinetosocope 582
King, Martin Luther 495, 627, 762
Kinsey Reports 725
knot theory 477
knowledge by description/knowledge by acquaintance 639
knowledge is power 365
kõan 275
Krafft-Ebbing, Richard von 567
Kripke, Saul Naming and Necessity 872
krumping 922
Ktesibios of Alexandria 61
Kübler-Ross, Elisabeth On Death and Dying 827
Kuhn, Thomas 788
Kwanzaa 810
kyõsei 886
L
La Fontaine, Jean de Fables 134
La Mettrie, Julien Offray de L’homme machine 405
Lamarckian evolution 458
Lamartine, Alphonse de 190
Langland, William 297
language, universal 238
Laozi 136, 138, 139
laparoscopic surgery 613
Laplace, Pierre-Simon 450
lateral thinking 821
Latin square 431
LaVey, Anton 297, 808
Lavoisier, Antoine 368, 373, 441
law of noncontradiction 205
laws 186
international laws 344
Le Bon, Gustave 591
Le Corbusier, Charles-Édouard The Radiant City 699
leap of faith 488
Lee, Bruce 136, 138
Leech, John 484
Leeuwenhoek, Antonie van 370, 374, 469, 479
Lefebvre, Henri Critique of Everyday Life 722
Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm von 126, 133, 161, 227, 238, 353, 374, 390, 395, 397, 408, 553
identity of indiscernibles 381
infinitesmal calculus 380
Leigh, Richard The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail 878
leisure 52
Lemaître, Georges 674, 676
Leninism 617
Leo XIII, Pope 581
Leucippus 160, 181, 205
Levallois technique 27
Lewis, Clarence 650
Lewis, David 809
LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender) 891
Liar’s Paradox 205, 212
liberalism 388
liberating violence 783
liberation theology 839
libraries, public 316
lifeboat Earth 853
light 527
Lima, Pedro Almeida 696
limited liability corporation (Ltd.) 507
limits to growth 845
Lincoln, Abraham 520, 688
Lincoln, Henry The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail 878
Linde, Andrei 930
Lindemann, Ferdinand 224
linguistic turn 816
Listing, Johann Benedict 492
Liszt, Franz 498
literature 73, 236, 367, 734
Gothic 290
Romanticism 411
loans 86
Lobachevsky, Nikolay Ivanovich 229
lobotomy 696
Locke, John 154, 221, 321, 338, 361, 384–8, 425
logarithms 348, 353
London, Bernard 689
Lope de Vega, Félix Arturo 149
Lorenz, Edward 794, 825
Lovelock, James 840
Lucretius 160, 227
Luther, Martin 126, 261, 289, 323, 324, 326, 328, 455
Lyell, Charles 436, 518, 875
Lyotard, Jean-François 868
M
Ma’at 67
Macchiavelli, Niccolò The Prince 179, 321
Mach, Ernst 210
machines, simple 44
magazines 368
magical realism 734
Magna Carta 298, 300
Malagasy Company 934
male gaze 856
Malthus, Thomas An Essay on the Principle of Population 453, 524
man as machine 405
man is the measure of all things 169
Mandelbrot, Benoit 858
Manetho 221
Manhattan Project 710
Manichaeism 109, 257, 267
manifest destiny 489
Mannerism 325
mantras 108
many worlds theory 775
Mao Zedong 534
Cultural Revolution 813
Great Leap Forward 778
People’s War 703
The Little Red Book 797
maps 74
Marcuse, Herbert 804
marginal revenue productivity 569
Marinetti, Filippo 633
Marlowe, Christopher 140, 141
Marr, Wilhelm 221
marriages, arranged 53
Mars, colonization of 912
martial arts 136, 138, 139, 280
capoeira 330
Marx, Karl 99, 192, 461, 481, 492, 580
Communism 492
dictatorship of the proletariat 545
Mary, Queen of Scots 94
Maslow, Abraham 713
masochism 567
masters of nature 359
materialism 50, 181
mathematics 68
Bayes’ Theorem 417
birthday problem 704
equals sign 332
Euler’s number (e) 402
Fermat’s Last Theorem 359, 486
Fibonacci numbers 298
fifth (parallel) postulate 229
fixed-point theorem 668
fractals 858
graph theory 403
imaginary numbers 334
infinity 133
Latin square 431
logarithms 348
mathematical function 374
mathematical proof 223
matrices 229
Pascal’s triangle 366
perfect numbers 245
pi 394
prime numbers 223
Pythagorean theorem 142, 154, 166
rational/irrational numbers 152
Riemann Hypothesis 513
ring theory 486
set theory 542
trigonometry 232
vector spaces 573
well-formed formula (WFF) 680
zero 97, 161
matrix 229
Maxwell, James Clerk 527–8
Maxwell’s Demon 530
Mayer, Catherine 937
McCarthy, John 829
McDonaldization 900
McKinley, John 704
McLuhan, Marshall 797
McNamara, Frank 741
McTaggart, John 159
Meadows, D.H. and D. L. The Limits to Growth 845
mechanical programmability 400
medicine
bloodletting 252
humorism 177
vaccination 286
meditation 105
mediumship 33
megalithic monuments 56
memento mori 236
memes 862
Menander 149
Mendel, Gregor 458
Mendelian inheritance 525
Mendeleev, Dmitri 368, 533
Menninger, William 717
mental asylums 301
meritocracy 778
Mersenne, Marin 245
Merton, Robert K. 730, 736
Mesmer, Franz Anton 421
Messiah 116
metanoia 255
metrosexuality 900
Michelangelo 168, 177
Michell, John 433
microbiology 374
Midrash 256
Mies van der Rohe, Ludwig 807
might makes right 491
Milgram, Stanley 816
Milgram experiments 784
military-industrial complex 786
Mill, John Stuart 439, 487
On Liberty 511
millenialism 119
Miller, Arthur 141
Miller, Elizabeth Smith 499
Miller, Stanler 752
Millett, Kate Sexual Politics 833
Milton, John 338
mind-brain identity theory 766
mind/body problem 358
minimum wage 586
Minsky, Marvin 766
miracles 50
no-miracles argument 860
Mirandola, Giovanni Pico della Oration on the Dignity of Man 317
missing letter effect 864
missing link 518
Mithen, Steve The Prehistory of the Mind 914
mitochondrial Eve 887
MMPI (Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory) 704
Möbius, Augustus 492
modal logic 650
Moivre, Abraham de 402
Molière, Jean-Baptiste Poquelin 140
monadology 397
monetarism 637
money 38
Moniz, António 696
monotheism 119
Montaigne, Michel de 221
Montesquieu, Charles-Louis 407
Montessori, Maria 596
Moody, Raymond Life After Life 859
Moore, G. E. 616
moral absolutism 196
moral relativism 170, 171, 196
More, Sir Thomas 320, 323
Morel, Benedict 500
Morganstern, Oskar 713
Mormonism 119, 468
Morris, Henry M. The Genesis Flood 786
Morris, William News from Nowhere 580
Mosca, Gaetano 593
motion as the natural state of things 382
motion pictures 476
Motorola Corporation 881, 884
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus 411
Muilenburg, James 824
multiple intelligences 881
multiverse 590
Mulvey, Laura 856
Munchausen syndrome 748
music
absolute music 459
atonality 629
Baroque 341
blues 638
classical 411
country 658
equal temperament (ET) 207
Expressionism 631
homophony 314
Impressionism 558
jazz 635
music of the spheres 146
musical indeterminacy 744
plainchant 240
polyphony 286
pop 740
postmodern music 834
program music 498
Pythagorean tuning 143, 207
rap 867
reggae 819
Renaissance music 314
rhythm and blues 736
rock ’n’ roll 751
Romanticism 411
sound collage 740
swing 686
tonality 459
Muslims see Islam
Muths, Johann Friedrich Guts 55
Myers-Briggs Type Indicator 791
mystical experience 91
N
Nagel, Thomas What Is It Like to Be a Bat? 853
Nambu, Yoichiro 828
Napier, John 348, 353
national nativism 481
nationalism 422
naturalism 50, 130, 350
naturalistic dualism 911
nature abhors a vacuum 215
nature of personal identity 388
nature versus nurture 532
near-death experiences (NDEs) 859
neocatastrophism 875
Neoclassicism 417
neoconservatism 850
neoliberalism 690
neuro-linguistic programming (NLP) 861
New Age 780
Newcomen, Thomas 397
Newman, Craig 908
news sheets 235
Newton, Sir Isaac 133, 167, 181, 184, 199, 206, 221, 227, 343, 347, 860
alchemy 224
gravity 383
infinitesimal calculus 380
light 379
motion as the natural state of things 382
Newton’s color wheel 393
Nichomachus 245
Nielsen, Holger Bech 828
Niépce, Joseph-Nicéphore 463
Nietzsche, Friedrich 151, 170, 217, 471, 559, 564
master morality and slave morality 570
The Birth of Tragedy 537
what does not kill you makes you stronger 572
nihilism 170
nirvana 103, 107, 145, 146
Nobel Prize 592
nothingness 161
nuclear fusion 662
nudism 618
numerology 68
nunchi 308
Nussbaum, Martha 176
O
O’Neill, Eugene 141
Objectivism 768
obsolescence, planned 689
Occam’s razor 210
Occupy movement 938
Oesterle, Bill 906
Olbers, Heinrich Wilhelm 464
Olympians, Twelve 125
Olympic Games
ancient 129
modern 496
Paralympic Games 752
Omidyar, Pierre 907
ontology in information science 899
Oort, Jan Hendrik 690
Opdyke, George 474
opera 338
optimism 395
oracles 82
organ transplantation 615
orgone energy 693
Origen 258
original position 837
original sin 251
against original sin 264
originalism 871
Ortelius, Abraham 337
Orwell, George
Animal Farm 31, 134
Nineteen Eighty-Four 323, 733
oscillating universe 686
Oughtred, William 353, 394
outer space 160
outsourcing 892
Ovid 179, 338
Oviedo, Gonzalo Fernández de 163
P
pacifism 613
Paine, Thomas 353, 444
Age of Reason 446
Paley, William 456
panopticon 438
pantheism 378
Paolozzi, Eduardo 721
papal infallibility 536
Paracelsus 211
paradigm shift 788
parallelism 390
Paralympic Games 752
parental advisory labels (PALs) 895
Pareto efficiency 628
Parkinson, Bradford 851
Parks, Rosa 762
Parmenides of Elea 159, 161, 171
particle physics
Higgs boson 801
Standard Model 854
strong force 846
subatomic particles 544
Pascal, Blaise 255, 279
Pascal’s triangle 366
Pascal’s Wager 373
passive housing 889
passive-aggressive behavior 717
Passover 99, 121
Pasteur, Louis 201, 286, 469, 501
pasteurization 523
Patton, George S. 112
Pavlov, Ivan 643
Pavlov’s Dog 614
Peano, Giuseppe 573
peer pressure 747
Peirce, Charles Sanders 515, 538, 550
Perelman, Grigori 620
perfect numbers 245
perfection 202
performance art 755, 770
perfume 66
Peri, Jacopo 338
periodic table of the elements 368, 533
permanent revolution 624
perpetual motion 279
perspective 180
linear perspective in painting 310
pessimism 461
phenomenology 609
Philip of Opus 184
philosopher king 187
philosophy 76, 130, 170–1
cynicism 176
end justifies the means 179
epistemological turn 355
eternal flux 151
eternal stasis 159
hedonism 136
man is the measure of all things 169
philosophical realism 185
skepticism 221
to be is to be perceived 394
phlogiston theory 373
phonograph 547
photography 463, 549
phrenology 455
physician-assisted suicide 179
physics 146, 205
pi 394
Pi Sheng 311
Piaget, Jean 668, 820
Picasso, Pablo 33, 631
pictograms 62
Pilâtre, Jean-François 271
Pilz, Reiner 905
Pitt, William, the Elder 190
Pizan, Christine de Book of the City of Ladies 308
Place, U. T. 766
plainchant 240
Planck’s Law 611
Plantinga, Alvin 267, 292, 823
Plateau, Joseph Antoine Ferdinand 476
Plato 31, 76, 79, 112, 146, 151, 159, 165, 166, 169, 181, 184–5, 196, 208, 215, 219, 293, 323
absolute power corrupts absolutely 190
allegory of the cave 192
compulsory education 191
elements 199
formalism in art 194
Great Chain of Being 189
justified true belief 189
moral absolutism 196
obeying laws 186
philosopher king 187
Plato’s academy 182
platonic love 194
space 195
Third Man Problem 201
Plautus 149
Pliny the Elder 243
poetry 76
metaphysical poetry 342
Poincaré Conjecture 620
Pointillism 563
political correctness 781
Politzer, David 846
Polo, Marco 271
polygamy 86
Polykleitos Canon of Proportion 168
polyphony 286
Ponce de León, Juan 163
Ponzi schemes 653
Pop art 721
pop music 740
Popper, Karl 187, 202, 473, 691
population growth 43, 93, 453, 912
Porphyrian tree 258
positivism 192, 470
Post, Emily Etiquette 669
postmodern music 834
postmodernism 868
pottery 40
pragmatic theory of truth 550
pragmatism 538
Pre-Raphaelitism 494
predicate logic 551
presumption of innocence 444
Price, Sol 759
Priest, Graham 205, 212
Priestly, Joseph Researches Chemical and Philosophical 94
primary and secondary qualities 387
prime numbers 223
printing press 235, 311
Prior, Arthur 212
prisoner’s dilemma 743
product placement 540
progress, continual 129
Prohibition 650
propaganda 352
propaganda by deed 534
property dualism 543
property is theft 481
propositional logic 231
Protagoras 169, 170
Protestant work ethic 619
Proudhon, Pierre-Joseph 461, 481, 482, 523
Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite 270
psychedelic experience 761
psychoanalysis 579
psychology laboratory 552
Ptolemy, Claudius 59, 184, 196, 206, 232, 328
punctuated equilibrium 844
pursuit of happiness 425
Putnam, Hilary 860
Pyrrho of Elis 221
Pythagoras of Samos 59, 68, 112, 144, 232
music of the spheres 146
Pythagorean theorem 142, 154, 166
Pythagorean tuning 143, 207
Q
Qassim, Abdul Karim 94
Quakerism 363
queer theory 898
question of being 675
Quine, Willard van Orman Two Dogmas of Empiricism 748
R
racialism/racism 628
Racine, Jean 140, 141
radio waves 527
radioactivity, theory of 599
Rand, Ayn 768
rap music 867
Rastafarianism 685
rational choice theory (RCT) 783
Rational Dress 499
rational drug design 879
rational ignorance 775
rational/irrational numbers 152
rationalism 356
Ratti, Jo’Artis “Big Mijo” 922
Rawls, John A Theory of Justice 837, 839
Reaganomics 876
recapitulation theory 529
Recorde, Robert 332
recycling 835
Reformation art 324
reformed epistemology 823
reggae 819
regicide 94
Reich, Wilhelm 693
reincarnation 103, 112
samsara 103, 107, 112, 148
relativism 169
Religious Humanism 691
religious pluralism 157
religious tolerance 386
Renaissance 59, 169, 180
Renaissance man/woman 517
Renaissance music 314
repressive tolerance 804
rest as the natural state of things 206
restaurants 283
restorative justice 892
Reutersvärd, Oscar 694
Reynaud, Charles-Émile 549
rhythm and blues 736
Rist, Johann 368
Ritzer, George The McDonaldization of Society 900
Rivest, R. L. 864
Rivkin, Leonard 791
Robert-Houdin, Jean Eugène 490
Robespierre, Maximilien de The Principles of Political Morality 446
Robin Hood 297
Roblin, Richard 841
robotics 663, 707
rock ’n’ roll 751
Rococo 399
role models 736
Roman gods 155
Romanesque architecture 282
Romanticism 411
Röntgen, Wilhelm 587
Roosevelt, Franklin D. 710, 717
Rorschach Test 666
Rorty, Richard The Linguistic Turn 816
Roscher, Wilhelm 487
Rosicrucianism 347
Roslin Institute, Edinburgh 915
Roszak, Theodore 827
Rougier, Louis 690
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques 353, 388, 481, 777
critique of inequality 413
man is born free 416
RSA algorithm 864
Russell, Bertrand 171, 189, 616, 623, 639, 665, 793
Russell’s paradox 610
Russell, Richard 407
Rüstow, Alexander 690
Ryder, Richard D. 831
S
sadism 567
safe haven law 920
Said, Edward Orientalism 865
Saint-Simon, Henri de 461
Salam, Mohammad Abdus 817, 854
salsa 685
samsara 103, 107, 112, 148
Sanger, Margaret 93
Santa Claus 259
Sartre, Jean-Paul 170, 714
Nausea 703
Satanism, LaVeyan 808
theistic 297
satire 175
Saunders, Clarence 646
Saussure, Horace-Bénédict de 418, 465
scapegoat 117
Schenkel, Rudolph 723
Schleyer, Johann Martin 554
Schoenberg, Arnold 629, 631, 667
scholasticism 293
Schopenhauer, Arthur 461
Schrödinger’s Cat 699, 934
Schumacher, E. F. Small Is Beautiful 846
science 130, 177, 161, 184, 201, 210, 359
four causes 212
scientific method 202
Scientology 112, 751
sculpture 40
SEALAB 803
Searle, John 872
Second Coming 239
Second Law of Thermodynamics 467, 530
sedentism 36, 43
self-fulfilling prophecy 730
Self-Reliance 471
Semmelweis, Ignaz 491
Seneca the Younger 141, 302
sense and reference 584
separation of church and state 455
separation of powers 407
serialism 667
set theory 542
Seuss, Dr. 134
sewer systems 115
sex reassignment surgery 683
sexism 794
sexting 932
Shakespeare, William 86, 140, 141, 149, 177, 285, 297
shamanism 30, 33, 50
Shamir, A. 864
Shannon, Claude 728
sharp projectiles 26
Sheen, Fulton 746
Shell, Tim 928
Shintõism 30, 31, 59, 276
Sidgwick, Henry 543
sign language for the deaf 418
Sikhism 103, 104, 107, 318
Simon, Herbert 766
simple life 502
Simpson, Mark 901
Singer, Peter 144
Practical Ethics 871
six degrees of separation 816
Six Green Principles 927
Six Sigma 884
Sixtus V, Pope 94
skepticism 221
Skinner, B. F. 532, 643
slavery 41, 420
slide rule 353
Smith, Adam 321, 365, 388
The Wealth of Nations 129, 425
Smith, Joseph, Jr. 468
Smith, Robert 695
soap 72
Social Darwinism 524, 549
social networking services 867
social welfare 245
societas publicanorum 237
society of the spectacle 823
Socrates 134, 151, 154, 169, 170, 174, 176, 186, 214, 215
I know that I do not know 165
Socratic Method 166
solar power 418
Sophism 169, 170, 173
Sophocles 140, 141, 163, 168, 179
souls 34
sound collage 740
space 195
space rockets 597
Space X 940
speciesism 831
speed limit 529
Spencer, Herbert 461, 470, 524
Spener, Philipp Jakob 376
Spinoza, Baruch 361, 378, 397
spiritualism 404
Spock, Benjamin 718
spontaneous generation 201
squaring the circle 224
Stampfer, Simon van 476
state, the 321
steam power 397
Steiner, George The Death of Tragedy 141
Steiner, Rudolf 629
Stevenson, Robert Louis Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde 564
Stockholm syndrome 849
Stoermer, Eugene F. 924
Stoicism 67, 163, 181, 205, 207
Stoneking, Mark 887
Storey, George 544
Strauss, William Generations 898
stream of consciousness 601
Strindberg, August 140
string theory 146, 828
Stringfellow, John 485
strong force 846
structuralism 611
subjectivism 171
subjectivist fallacy 564
subsidiarity 581
substance dualism 356
Sudoku 431, 868
suffrage, universal 584
Sullivan, John L. 489
Sullivan, Louis 595
sundials 62
Sunzi, The Art of War 173
supermarkets 646
supply and demand 478
Surrealism 656
survival of the fittest 524
Susskind, Leonard 828
Sutherland, Ivan 813
Swan, Joseph 340
Swedenborg, Emanuel 404
swing music 686
Sylvester, James 229
symbolic logic 553
symbols 35
T
Tabourot, Jehan 337
tabula rasa 384
talkies 657
tantric sex 624
Taoism see Daoism
Tarski, Alfred 212
teleology 214
telephone 546
telescopes 347
televangelism 746
television 140, 149, 672
Ten Commandments 122
terrorism 243, 534
war on terror 928
Tertullian 251, 253, 255
Tesla, Nikola 340
thalassotherapy 407
Thales of Miletus 130, 167, 350
Thanksgiving 350
Theodosius I 129
theory 184
Theosophy 107, 112, 300
Thespis 140, 141
think tanks 474
Third Man Problem 201
Thomas, Lewis The Lives of a Cell 856
Thompson, Sir Henry Cremation: The Treatment of the Body After Death 65
Thoreau, Henry David 471, 495, 502
Thorndike, Edward L. 597
Thrasymachus 170
Tiberius 221
tipping point 770
Tokugawa shogunate 126, 362
Tolkien, J. R. R. 116, 285
Tönnies, Ferdinand 569
tool development 26, 27
toothbrushes 90
top-down cosmology 934
topology 492
Torricelli, Evangelista 215
totem poles 426
trade 28, 38
trade unions 422
traffic lights 530
tragedy 141, 537
Trajan 245
transcendental idealism 430
Transcendentalism 471
transubstantiation 283
Travels of Sir John Mandeville 163
trial by jury 298
trigonometry 232
Trojan Horse 125
Trotsky, Leon 624, 628
Troyes, Chrétien de 295
Tsiolkovsky, Konstantin 597
Turing machine 701
Turner, Michael 918
Tyndall, John 465
U
Ubuntu 908
UK Biobank 937
Umar 245
uncertainty principle 676
Underhill, Peter 927
unified field theory 167
uniformitarianism 436
Unitarianism 331
United Nations 717
Universal Declaration of Human Rights 149, 157, 731
universals and particulars 185
universe
infinite number of 590, 775
oscillating 686
universities 182
upcycling 905
Ur-Nammu, Code of 81, 89
Urey-Miller experiment 752
Urey, Harold 752
urgent care clinics 831
utilitarianism 439
Utopia 323
utopian socialism 461
V
V-chip 906
vaccination 286
Valentinus 246
value-added tax (VAT) 759
van Gogh, Vincent 577
van Inwagen, Peter 227
Veblen, Thorstein 600, 605
vector spaces 573
vegetarianism 123, 144
venture philanthropy 935
Venturi, Robert Less is a bore 807
verificationism 408
Verne, Jules Around the World in Eighty Days 540
Vesalius, Andreas 252
Vico, Giambattista 400
video on demand (VOD) 903
Virgin Galactic 940
virtual reality 813
virtual workplaces 925
vitalism 251
Vitruvius 168, 232
Volapük 554
Voltaire 257, 323, 353, 395
cultivate your garden 415
voluntarism 569
von Guericke, Otto 160
von Hartsoeker, Nicolaas 211
von Mises, Richard 704
von Moltke, Helmuth 556
von Neumann, John 713
voodoo 391
W
wabi-sabi 293
Waddington, C. H. 708
Wales, Jimmy 928
Waliullah, Shah 408
Wallace, Alfred Russell 511
Wantzel, Pierre 224
war is good 556
war on terror 928
warehouse clubs 759
Warnekros, Kurt 683
Watchmaker Analogy 456
water (all is) 130, 167
waterpower 218
Watson, James 370, 756, 855
Watson, John 643
wave theory of light 379
weak force 693
Weber-Fechner law 478
Weber, Max 321, 619, 621
Wegener, Alfred 337
Weierstrass, Karl 858
Weinberg, Stephen 817, 854
Weismann, August 458, 560
Wellcome Trust, London 937
Wellington, Duke of 474
Wells, H. G. 323
Werner, Karl 804
Wertheimer, Max 640
West, Brett 906
Westinghouse, George 340
Weyl, Hermann 648
Whitcomb, John C. The Genesis Flood 786
White, Ellen G. The Great Controversy 508
Whitehead, Alfred North 151
Whitney, Eli 453
Whyte, William H. 755
Wicca 159, 761
Wiener, Norbert 726
Wikipedia 928
Wilczek, Frank 846
Wiles, Andrew 359
Wilkins, John 371
William of Ockham 185, 210, 214, 293
Williams, Ralph Vaughan 326
Willis, Ceasare “Tight Eyez” 922
Wilson, Allan 887
Wilson, William 695
Wimsatt, William 718
Winckelmann, Johann Joachim 417
wind power 61
winemaking 47
Wittgenstein, Ludwig 255, 408
beetle in a box 758
if a lion could speak 758
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus 665
Wollstonecraft, Mary 442, 445
Woolf, Virginia A Room of One’s Own 680
World Anti-Piracy Observatory 938
World Wide Web 893
W3C 903
world, end of 99
infinite number of worlds 336
wormholes 648
Wovoka 575
Wright, Orville and Wilbur 271, 457, 485
wu wei 136, 139
Wundt, Wilhelm 552, 611
X
X-rays 587
Xenophon 134
Y
Y-chromosomal Adam 927
Yijing (I Ching) 82, 126
Yoga Sutras of Patanjali 234
Yoga Vasistha 228
you are what you eat 500
Young, Michael The Rise of the Meritocracy 778
Z
Zahavi, Amotz 860
Zen 275, 293, 295
Zeno of Citium 217
Zeno of Elea 159
Zeno’s arrow 171
Zermelo, Ernst 610
zero 97, 161
Zhuangzi 136, 139
Zimmerman, Paul 618
Zoroastrianism 50, 65, 99, 109, 119
Zubrin, Robert The Case for Mars 912
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