Everything Is Going to Kill Everybody (23 page)

________. “Vortex Process for Capturing Mechanical Energy During Upward Heat-Convection in the Atmosphere.”
Applied Energy
62, 4 (1999): 241–251.

Staedter, Tracy. “Fake Tornado Gives Energy New Twist.”
Discovery News
, November 9, 2005.

Schirber, Michael. “How a Man-Made Tornado Could Power the Future.”
LiveScience
, June 25, 2008.
www.livescience.com/environment/080625-pf-vortex-engine.html
.

Boyle, Alan. “PG&E Makes Deal for Space Solar Power: Utility to Buy Orbit-Generated Electricity from Solaren in 2016, At No Risk.” MSNBC science, April 13, 2009.
www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30198977/
.

Rogers, James E., Gary T. Spirnak, and Solaren Corporation. “Space-based Power System.” U.S. Patent US 6,936,760.

Schirber, Michael. “For Nuclear Fusion, Could Two Lasers Be Better Than One?”
Science
9, vol. 310, no. 5754 (December 2005): 1610–1611.

Dunne, Mike. “A High-Power Laser Fusion Facility for Europe.”
Nature Physics
2 (2006): 2–5.

Nuckolls, John, et al. “Laser Compression of Matter to Super-High Densities: Thermonuclear (CTR) Applications.”
Nature
239, issue 5386 (1972): 139–142.

6.
SUPERVOLCANO

Timmreck, C., and H. F. Graf. “The Initial Dispersal and Radiative Forcing of a Northern Hemisphere Mid-latitude Super Volcano: A Model Study.”
Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics
6 (2006): 35–49.

Wignall, P. B., Y. Sun, D. P. Bond, G. Izon, R. J. Newton, S. Védrine, M. Widdowson, J. R. Ali, X. Lai, H. Jiang, H. Cope, and S. H. Bottrell. “Volcanism, Mass Extinction, and Carbon Isotope Fluctuations in the Middle Permian of China.”
Science
324, 5931 (May 2009): 1179–1182.

Bindeman, Ilya N. “The Secrets of Supervolcanoes: Microscopic Crystals of Volcanic Ash Are Revealing Surprising Clues about the World’s Most Devastating Eruptions.”
Scientific American
, June 2006.

7.
MEGATSUNAMI

Pararas-Carayannis, George. “Evaluation of the Threat of Mega Tsunami Generation from Postulated Massive Slope Failures of Island Volcanoes on La Palma, Canary Islands, and on the Island of Hawaii.”
Science of Tsunami Hazards
20, no. 5 (2002): 251–277.

Mader, Charles L. “Modeling the 1958 Lituya Bay Mega-Tsunami.”
Science of Tsunami Hazards
17 no. 1 (1999): 57–67.

Ward, Steven N., and Simon Day. “Cumbre Vieja Volcano—Potential Collapse and Tsunami at La Palma, Canary Islands.”
Geophysical Research Letters
28, issue 17 (January 2001): 3397–3400.

Miller, Don J. “Giant Waves in Lituya Bay, Alaska: A Timely Account of the Nature and Possible Causes of Certain Giant Waves, with Eyewitness Reports of Their Destructive Capacity.”
Geological Survey Professional Paper
354-C, pp. 51–86. United States Government Printing Office, 1960.

8.
HYPERCANE

Leahy, Stephen. “The Dawn of the Hypercane?” Inter Press Service, September 16, 2005.

Hecht, Jeff. “Did Storms Land the Dinosaurs in Hot Water?”
New Scientist
1963 (Feb. 4, 1995).

Emanuel, Kerry A., Kevin Speer, Richard Rotunno, Ramesh Srivastava, and Mario Molina. “Hypercanes: A Possible Link to Global Extinction Scenarios.”
Journal of Geophysical Research
100(D7): 13,755–13,765.

9
.
GREEN GOO

“Dead on Target: Nanoparticle Seeks Out and Binds with Cancer Cells.”
ScienceDaily
, June 24, 2007.

Freitas, Robert A., Jr. “Exploratory Design in Medical Nanotechnology: A Mechanical Artificial Red Cell.”
Artificial Cells, Blood Substitutes, and Immobil. Biotech
26 (1998): 411–430.

10.
GRAY GOO

Watson, B., J. Friend, and L. Yeo. “Piezoelectric Ultrasonic Resonant Motor with Stator Diameter Less Than 250 um: The
Proteus
Motor.”
Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering
19 (January 2009).

Center for Responsible Nanotechnology. “Thirty Essential Studies in Nanotechnology.”
www.crnano.org/studies.htm
.

Huyghe, Patrick. “3 Ideas That Are Pushing the Edge of Science.”
Discover
magazine, June 2008.

Phoenix, Chris, and Eric Drexler. “Safe Exponential Manufacturing.”
Nanotechnology
15 (2004): 869–872.

Drexler, K. Eric.
Engines of Creation: The Coming Era of Nanotechnology
. New York: Anchor Books, 1986.

11.
NANOLITTER

Center for Responsible Nanotechnology. “Dangers of Molecular Manufacturing.”
www.crnano.org/dangers.htm
.

ETC Group. “No Small Matter! Nanotech Particles Penetrate Living Cells and Accumulate in Animal Organs.”
ETC Group
76 (May/June 2002).
www.etcgroup.org
.

Brown, Doug. “Nano Litterbugs? Experts See Potential Pollution Problem.”
Small Times
, March 15, 2002.

Mortensen, Luke J., Gunter Oberdörster, Alice P. Pentland, and Lisa A. DeLouise. “In Vivo Skin Penetration of Quantum Dot. Nanoparticles in the Murine Model: The Effect of UVR.”
Nano Letters
8(9) (August 8, 2008): 2779–2787.

12.
ASTEROIDS AND EXTINCTION-LEVEL EVENTS

ScienceDaily. “What Hit Siberia 100 Years Ago? Tunguska Event Still Puzzles Scientists.”
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/07/080701105330.htm
.

Revkin, Andrew C. “Apocalypse Then. Next One, When?”
New York Times
, June 30, 2008.

Giorgini, Jon D., Lance A. M. Benner, Steven J. Ostro, Michael C. Nolan, and Michael W. Busch. “Predicting the Earth Encounters of (99942) Apophis.”
Icarus
193 (2008): 1–19.

Yeomans, Don, Steve Chesley, and Paul Chodas. “Near-Earth Asteroid 2004 MN4 Reaches Highest Score to Date on Hazard Scale.” NASA’s Near Earth Object Program Office, December 23, 2004.

Physorg.com
. “Space Rock Gives Earth a Close Shave.”
www.physorg.com/news155287963.html
.

Jaggard, Victoria. “Surprise Asteroid Buzzed Earth Monday.”
National Geographic News
, March 2, 2009.

American Friends, Tel Aviv University. “How to Destroy an Asteroid.”
www.aftau.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=8125
.

Chandler, David L. “‘Gravity Tractor’ Could Deflect Asteroids.”
New Scientist
, July 28, 2008.

13.
VERNESHOT

Morgan, J. Phipps, T. J. Reston, and C. R. Ranero. “Contemporaneous Mass Extinctions, Continental Flood Basalts, and ‘Impact Signals’: Are Mantle Plume-Induced Lithospheric Gas Explosions the Causal Link?”
Earth and Planetary Science Letters
217, issues 3–4 (January 15, 2004): 263–284.

Ravilious, Kate. “Four Days That Shook the World.”
New Scientist
2446 (May 8, 2004).

14.
POLE SHIFT

Hoffman, Kenneth A. “Ancient Magnetic Reversals: Clues to the Geodynamo.”
Scientific American
258 (May 1988): 76–83.

Pétrélis, François, Stéphan Fauve, Emmanuel Dormy, and Jean-Pierre Valet. “Simple Mechanism for Reversals of Earth’s Magnetic Field.”
Physical Review Letters
102, issue 14 (2009).

McKie, Robin. “Sun’s Rays to Roast Earth as Poles Flip.”
The Observer
, November 10, 2002.

Cottrell, R. D., and J. A. Tarduno. “Late Cretaceous True Polar Wander: Not So Fast.”
Science
30, vol. 288, no. 5475 (June 2000): 2283.

Jacobs, J. A. “What Triggers Reversals of the Earth’s Magnetic Field?”
Nature
309, 115 (1984).

15.
BIOTECH INCENTIVE

Narkar, Vihang A., et al. “AMPK and PPARdelta Agonists Are Exercise Mimetics.”
Cell
134, issue 3 (August 8, 2008): 405–415.

Randerson, James. “Scientists Raise Spectre of Gene-Modified Athletes.”
New Scientist
, November 30, 2001.

LiveScience Staff. “Fountain of Youth: Drug Restores Muscle.”
LiveScience
, November 4, 2008.
www.livescience.com/health/081104-frailty-drug.html
.

16.
BIOTECH CONTAGION

Whitehouse, David. “Mice Make Human Proteins in Semen.” BBC News Online: Sci/Tech.
news.bbc.co.uk/low/english/sci/tech/newsid_485000/485123.stm
.

Lieberman, Philip. “FOXP2 and Human Cognition.”
Cell
137, issue 5 (May 29, 2009): 800–802.

Enard, W., et al. “A Humanized Version of Foxp2 Affects Cortico-Basal Ganglia Circuits in Mice.”
Cell
137, issue 5 (May 29, 2009): 961–971.

17.
BIOTECH LETHALITY

Torrey, E. Fuller, and Robert H. Yolken.
“Toxoplasma gondii
and Schizophrenia.”
Emerging Infectious Diseases
9, no. 11 (November 2003): 1375–1380.

McKie, Robin. “Shampoo in the Water Supply Triggers Growth of Deadly Drug-Resistant Bugs.”
The Observer
, March 29, 2009.

Ho, Mae-Wan, and Joe Cummins. “Xenotransplantation: How Bad Science and Big Business Put the World at Risk from Viral Pandemics.” ISIS Sustainable Science Audit #2 (2000).
www.i-sis.org.uk/xeno.php
.

Nowak, Rachel. “Killer Virus.”
New Scientist
, January 10, 2001.

Westphal, Sylvia Pagàn. “Ebola Virus Could Be Synthesized.”
New Scientist
, July 17, 2002.

Broad, William J. “Bioterror Researchers Build a More Lethal Mousepox.”
New York Times
, November 1, 2003.

Groopman, Jerome. “Superbugs: The New Generation of Resistant Infections Is Almost Impossible to Treat.”
The New Yorker
, August 11, 2008.

Watanabe, Tokiko, et al. “Viral RNA Polymerase Complex Promotes Optimal Growth of 1918 Virus in the Lower Respiratory Tract of Ferrets.”
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
106, no. 2 (January 13, 2009): 588–592.

Medical News Today. “Francisella Tularensis: Stopping a Biological Weapon.” July 28, 2008. Adopted from Lucy Goodchild,
Society for General Microbiology
.

18.
ROBOT AUTONOMY

Graham-Rowe, Duncan. “Feed Me.”
New Scientist
, July 22, 2000.

Wilkinson, Stuart. “‘Gastrobots’—Benefits and Challenges of Microbial Fuel Cells in Food Powered Robot Applications.”
Autonomous Robots
9, no. 2 (September 2000): 99–111.

Finkelstein, Robert. “Brief Project Overview. EATR: Energetically Autonomous Tactical Robot.” DARPA Contract W31P4Q-08-C-0292, January 15, 2009.

Warwick, Graham. “Bird on a Wire—Flying Wing UAV Recharges on the Fly.” Ares: A Defense Technology Blog,
Aviation Week
.
Tinyurl.com/ykrel5×
.

DeMarse, Thomas B. “The Neurally Controlled Animat: Biological Brains Acting with Simulated Bodies.”
Autonomous Robots
11, no. 3 (2001): 305–310.

Kloc, Joe. “The Living Robot.”
SEED Magazine
, March 26, 2009.

Blow, M., et al. “Perception of Robot Smiles and Dimensions for Human-Robot Interaction Design.” Proceedings of the 15
th
IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (2006): 469–474.

Degallier, S., et al. “A Modular, Bio-Inspired Architecture for Movement Generation for the Infant-Like Robot iCub.” IEEE RAS/EMBS International Conference on Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics (October 19, 2008): 795–800.

Gaudin, Sharon. “NASA: Robotic Arm on Mars Lander Shuts Down to Save Itself.”
PC World
, July 16, 2008.
www.pcworld.idg.com.au/article/253265/nasa_robotic_arm_mars_lander_shuts_down_save_itself
.

19.
ROBOT IMMORALITY

Lipson, H. “Evolutionary Robotics: Emergence of Communication.”
Current Biology
17, issue 9 (May 2007): R330-R332.

Floreano, D., S. Mitri, S. Magnenat, and L. Keller. “Evolutionary Conditions for the Emergence of Communication.”
Current Biology
17 issue 6 (2007): 514–519.