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Foreword
Goldilocks
and the Anthropic Bear
Biosphere The Biosphere
Goldilocks Activity 1 Teacher Guide: The Goldilocks Principle K
Venus Venus Fact Sheet
Mars Mars Fact Sheet
Greenhouse effect Global Warming
Photosynthesis PHOTOSYNTHESIS K
Blue-green algae Fossil Record of the Cyanobacteria
The Anthropic principle The Anthropic Principle
On
the top of the rugged hill
Negative feedback mechanism Negative feedback inhibition
Growth rings of fossil trees NOAA Paleoclimatology Global Warming - The Story
Types of equilibrium 4(f) Equilibrium Concepts and Feedbacks
Synergy and other effects
Threats by Nature, threats by
man
Nemesis
and the ‘Solar System Baywatch’
Cretaceous The Cretaceous Period K
The Mesozoic Era Introduction to the Mesozoic Era K
Tertiary Era Introduction to the Cenozoic K
The boundary National Museum of Natural History - Dinosaur Extinction
Iridium Chemistry : Periodic Table : iridium : key information
The theory states ALVAREZ ASTEROID IMPACT THEORY - Paleontology and Geology Glossary
Many times BBC Evolution Weekend: Extinction Files - Mass Extinctions
Nemesis Nemesis, Proposed Companion Star to the Sun and Mass Extinctions on Earth
Asteroid Belt Main Asteroid Belt
Earth-crossing asteroids How Dangerous are Earth-Crossing Objects?
Promptly inform our government officials The Threat of Large Earth-orbit Crossing Asteroids
From Black Death to Magellan, from AIDS to…?
Atlantis Atlantis
The Flood Authorized KJV Bible -- Genesis Ch. 7
The Black Death HWC, The Black Death
Contaminated corpses The Black Death, 1348 (see the side note written in brown text on the left side of the main text)
The end of the Middle Ages Middle Ages - Wikipedia J
Columbus The Columbus Navigation Homepage
Leghorn The Virtual Jewish History Tour - Livorno (Leghorn)
A strange disease The Origin of AIDS & HIV, and the First Cases of AIDS
AIDS The History of AIDS, HIV Information, Structure and Picture
Los Niños’ global paso doble
El Niño El Niño and La Niña:
Tracing the Dance of Ocean and Atmosphere
J
NOTE: This URL was the source for the “dancing” idea.
Overcoming World War III
Manhattan Project Manhattan Project Title Page
Dr.Strangelove Dr. Strangelove, Or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb (1964)
Planet of the Apes PLANET OF THE APES PG.1:Largest Collection of Photos, Find VHS, DVDs HERE!
Sweden http://www.folkkampanjen.se/nwchap2.html#HD_NM_30
Hiroshima The City of Hiroshima K
Nagasaki WELCOME NAGASAKI CITY to English K
The Plutonium case
Plutonium is a man-made element NVMP: nieuws
The most poisonous A medical look at plutonium
A light, innocent metal
Aluminum Chemistry : Periodic Table : aluminium : key information
Oxygen Chemistry : Periodic Table : oxygen : key information
Silicon Chemistry : Periodic Table : silicon : key information
Iron Chemistry : Periodic Table : iron : key information
Silver Chemistry : Periodic Table : silver : key information
Copper Chemistry : Periodic Table : copper : key information
Gold Chemistry : Periodic Table : gold : key information
Whashington Monument Washington Monument
Tip made of Alumunum A History of the Aluminum Cap of the Washington Monument
Found an ingenious method Tomago Aluminium - About Aluminium - History
Alzheimer’s disease (AD) http://www.alzheimers.org/pubs/adfact.html
The etiology of AD Progress Report on Alzheimer's Disease, 2000 - Alzheimer's Disease Education & Referral Center - ADEAR - A Service of the National Institute on Aging - NIA
PLUM JAM, MARGARINE AND OTHER COLORS
Additives FDA/CFSAN Food Additives
FDA Food and Drug Administration Home Page
E standing for Edible http://www.laleva.cc/food/enumbers/Enumbers.html
E123 Red Amaranth E123 Amaranth
THE ROTTING PLUTONIUM CASE
Plutonium Chemistry : Periodic Table : plutonium : key information
a particles NRC: Glossary -- Alpha particle
239Pu IEER Plutonium Factsheet
Exponential scale Readings on Powers of Ten
Red blood cells Red Blood Cells
Risk of earthquakes An Introduction to Nevada's Earthquake Hazards
The mountains where the nuclear waste is kept Earthquakes In The Vicinity Of Yucca Mountain
BEE CAREFUL, DR. PANDORA!
FIGURES AND SLOPES
The same rationale http://www.emc.maricopa.edu/faculty/farabee/BIOBK/BioBookcycles.html
Milking
the cow, squeezing the lemon
Weekend and the Sabbatical crop
The dustbin bottom
Cheap dirty power versus
expensive clean energy
High-technology Producers Chapter Ten "Do Producers Have a Plan?"
Neo-capitalistic Neocapitalism - Last chance for a fading world ?
ECOLOGICAL NEOCAPITALISM
Greenpeace http://www.greenpeaceusa.org
The co urt’s fool The King's Fool
A letter to Grand-grand-pa
THE ULTIMATE ENERGY SOLUTION
Destroyed Operation Crossroads, Nuclear Tests at Bikini
Bikini atoll http://www.bikiniatoll.com/facts.html
Swimsuit Bikini
LUKEWARM FUSION
DKM Bismark sunk HMS Hood The Hunt
for the Bismarck
LESS RARE IS… WELL DONE
TESF (Turner Endangered Species
Fund) The Turner Endangered Species Fund
A BETTER CASE FOR PLUTONIUM
The contingency Plan The Atlantic
Online
Great canals, the Eyre Sea and blooming
Australia
canals Canals
on Mars
FLY, RIVER, DOWN UNDER!
BEE sweet, CUM GRANO SALIS!
EUREKA!
The Drake’s equation http://www.seti.org/seti/seti_science/drake_equation.html
Estimate http://www.seds.org/~rme/drakeeqn.htm
Human Plate Tectonics
The Migration of the Nations
Hyksos
The British Subject (Commonwealth)
The British Empire
C. Darwin
British Commonwealth of Nations
Union Jack
Tour Eiffel
Centre Pompidou
Camelot
Queen also:
Sir Francis Drake
Sir James Paul McCartney
Those were the days, my friend…
Baby-boom J
May 1968
Autunno Caldo
An insider’s analysis
Silent generation J
The Generation-gap link
THE GRANDCHILDREN’S GENERATION
Age-sex Pyramids
Population Pyramids K NOTE: This URL is also the source for the Pyramid definition.
Age-sex pyramid K
Animating the slide-show
A quite different form K
A typical developing country K
A typical developed country K
The Usa population pyramid of 1900 K
1960 K
2000 K
Germany in 1946 K
Yokohama
The Fire Horse Year
Sun City, Arizona K
Productive Population range
Solaria in Asimov’s ‘The Naked Sun’
Demographic Projections K NOTE: This URL is also the source for some text in the paragraph.
Turkish citizenship
THE UNDERDEVELOPED’S DEVELOPMENT
Kunta Kinte
Religion
Conclusions
A letter to the reader