The Canon (49 page)
Authors: Natalie Angier
Carpi, Anthony. "The Cell."
The Natural Sciences.
City University of New York. June 23, 2006
"The Cell: Down to Basics."
Beyond Books: Life Science.
September 1, 2005
"Cells."
Biosciences: Science About Life.
September 1, 2005
Conniff, Richard. "Body Beasts."
National Geographic.
December 1998. August 24, 2005
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"The DNA Codons."
The Genetic Code.
September 21, 2005
Emsley, John.
Nature's Building Blocks.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001.
Lieberman, Abraham N. "What You Should Know about the Cell, DNA, and
Genes." National Parkinson Foundation. October 6, 2005
Madanecki, Piotr. "Luminescent Bacteria." August 26, 2005
"My Favorite Protein: Insulin"
My Favorite Protein.
Davidson College. September 28, 2005
"Questions and Answers about Biology."
Ken Miller and Joe Levine.
October 7, 2005
Raven, Peter, et al.
Biology.
7th ed. Boston: McGraw Hill, 2005.
Rensberger, Boyce.
Instant Biology.
New York: Fawcett Columbine, 1996.
Rigden, John S.
Hydrogen: The Essential Element.
Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2002.
Sullivan, Jim. "How Big Is a ...?"
Cells Alive!
September 8, 2006
"The Theory of Differential Gene Expression"
Developmental Genetics.
October 6, 2005
8. Geology: Imagining World Pieces
"Aerobic/Anaerobic Systems."
Book Rags Biology Study Guide.
February 10, 2006
Altschuler, Daniel R.
Children of the Stars: Our Origin, Evolution and Destiny.
Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002.
American Society for Microbiology. "Monsters Among the Microbes."
Microbes.
September 1, 2005
"Asteroids, Comets, and Meteoroids."
BBC-H2g2.
November 4, 2005
Bercovici, David, Yanick Ricard, and Mark A. Richards. "The Relation Between Mantle Dynamics and Plate Tectonics: A Primer."
Geophysical Monograph 121
(2000): 5â46.
Buffett, Bruce A. "Geophysics: The Thermal State of Earth's Core."
Science
299 (2003): 1675â77.
Calder, Nigel.
TimeScale.
New York: Viking Press, 1983.
"The Changing Earth and Cyanobacteria: The Oxygen Revolution."
Carleton Museum.
June 24, 2006
"Clostridium."
Medic.Uth.
February 10, 2006
Darling, David. "Ocean's Origin."
The Worlds of David Darling.
June 23, 2006
"The Different Plates; Sea Floor Spreading; Subduction."
ThinkQuest.
January 26, 2006.
"Earth's Structure."
ThinkQuest Team.
February 17, 2006
"Feeding in Green Plants."
The Open Door Web Site.
May 4, 2005. May 30, 2005
Fortey, Richard.
Life: A Natural History of the First Four Billion Years of Life on Earth.
New York: Vintage, 1997.
Fortey, Richard A.
Trilobite!
London: HarperCollins, 2000.
Fountain, Henry. "When Giants Had Wings and 6 Legs"
New York Times.
February 3, 2004.
"Geothermal Energy."
Kansas Energy Education Foundation.
June 23, 2006.
Gilman, Larry, and K. Lee Lerner. "Ocean-Floor Bathymetry."
Water Encyclopedia.
September 14, 2006
Gore, Pamela J. "The PreCambrian"
Georgia Perimeter College.
June 24, 2006
Hinshaw, Dorothy P.
Shaping the Earth.
New York: Clarion, 2000.
Jeffares, Daniel C., and Anthony M. Poole. "Were Bacteria the First Forms of Life on Earth?"
ActionBioscience.
December 2000. American Institute of Biological Sciences. October 10, 2005
"Journey to the Center of the Earth Synopsis"
Wikipedia.
February 22, 2006
Kandel, Robert.
Water from Heaven.
New York: Columbia University Press, 2003.
Knoll, Andrew H.
Life on a Young Planet.
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2003.
Knoll, Andrew H., and Sean B. Carroll. "Early Animal Evolution: Emerging Views from Comparative Biology and Geology."
Ecology
284 (1999): 2129â37. June 24, 2006
Levy, Sharon. "Navigating with a Built-in Compass"
National Wildlife Magazine.
OctoberâNovember 1999. National Wildlife Federation. October 10, 2005
Louie, J. "Earth's Interior."
Seismological Laboratory.
October 10, 1996. University of Nevada, Reno. January 19, 2006
Martin, William, and Miklos Mueller. "The Hydrogen Hypothesis for the First Eukaryote"
Nature
392 (1998): 37â41.
Mathez, Edmond A., ed.
Earth: Inside and Out.
New York: American Museum of Natural History, 2001.
Minarik, William. "The Multi-Anvil Press at Work"
Studying the Earth's Formation.
September 18, 2006
Monastersky, Richard. "Ancient Animals Got a Rise Out of Oxygen"
Science News.
May 13, 1995.
Moores, Eldridge, ed.
Shaping the Earth: Tectonics of Continents and Oceans.
New York: W. H. Freeman, 1990.
NASA. "Evidence Supporting Continental Drift"
NASA: On the MoveâContinental Drift and Plate Tectonics.
January 10, 2006
NASA Goddard Spaceflight Center. "The Water Cycle" September 14, 2006
Pendick, Daniel. "Earth: All Stressed Out"
Savage Earth.
PBS. January 5, 2006
Robertson, Eugene C. "The Interior of the Earth"
USGS.
June 23, 2006
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"Structure of the Earth"
Fundamentals of Physical Geography.
February 17, 2006
Svitil, Kathy. "The Earth at Work"
Savage Earth.
PBS. January 5, 2006
UK National HPC Service. University of Manchester. "Turing Probes the Earth's Core." September 14, 2006
University College, London. "The Development of Life on Earth"
UCL Diploma Course.
August 26, 2005
"USGS Science for a Changing World."
USGS Publications.
September 14, 2006
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Vaiden, Robert C. "Plate Tectonics: Mysteries Solved!"
ISGS Geobit 10.
Illinois State Geological Survey. January 26, 2006
Valley, John W. "A Cool Early Earth?"
Scientificamerican.com
. September 26, 2005. February 10, 2006
Verne, Jules. "A Journey to the Center of the Earth Chapter XXXVI"
Jules Verne Collection.
February 23, 2006
Washington State University. "The Big QuestionsâPhotosynthesis."
Ask Dr. Universe.
February 13, 2006
.
"What Do We Know about the Origins of the Earth's Oceans?"
Scientific American.
June 23, 2006
Winchester, Simon.
A Crack in the Edge of the World.
New York: HarperCollins, 2005.
9. Astronomy: Heavenly Creatures
Altschuler, Daniel R.
Children of the Stars: Our Origin, Evolution and Destiny.
Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002.
"Asteroids, Comets, and Meteoroids"
BBC-H2g2.
November 4, 2005
"Beginnings: Space and Time"
Science and Nature: Space.
October 7, 2005
"Big Bang"
Wikipedia.
November 10, 2005
"Big Bang Theory."
Creation of a Cosmology.
November 23, 2005
"Biography of a Star: Our Sun's Birth, Life, and Death"
The Universe in a Classroom.
December 20, 2005
"Birth of Stars and Galaxies"
PBS: Mysteries of Deep Space.
November 10, 2005
"Blast from the Past: Farthest Supernova Ever Seen Sheds Light on Dark Universe"
HubbleSite.
April 2, 2001 November 10, 2005
Boughn, Stephen, and Robert Crittenden. "A Correlation Between the Cosmic Microwave Background and Large-Scale Structure in the Universe"
Nature
427 (2004): 45â48.
Britt, Robert R. "Freeze, Fry or Dry: How Long Has the Earth Got?"
Space.
February 25, 2000. November 24, 2005
âââ. "Most Distant Galaxy Hints at Dark Ages"
Space.
February 16, 2004. November 10, 2005
âââ. "Our Tiny Universe: What's Really Visible at Night"
Space.
December 29, 2003. November 20, 2005
âââ. "The Reality of Antimatter."
Space.
September 29, 2003. November 28, 2005
Chang, Kenneth. "Dying Star Flares Up, Briefly Outshining Rest of Galaxy."
New York Times.
February 20, 2005, Section 1: 26.
âââ. "Tiny, Plentiful and Really Hard to Catch"
New York Times.
April 26, 2005.
Charap, John M.
Explaining the Universe.
Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2002.
"Colonization of the Outer Solar System"
Wikipedia.
November 23, 2005
"Discovery of the Cosmic Background Radiation"
Footprints of Creation.
November 21, 2005
European Space Agency. "Creation of Light Elements"
ESA High School Education.
April 9, 2003. December 1, 2005
"Evolution of Stars."
The Milky Way.
December 20, 2005
Ferris, Timothy.
The Whole Shebang.
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1997.
"Formation of the Solar System"
Search for Planets.
European Space Agency. December 19, 2005
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Freudenrich, Craig. "How Light Works"
How Stuff Works.
June 23, 2006
Grinspoon, David.
Lonely Planets.
New York: Ecco, 2003.
Hakim, Joy.
The Story of Science.
Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Books, 2004.
Hamilton, Calvin J. "Star Formation, Life, and Death"
View of the Solar System.
December 20, 2005
Hawley, John F. "Is There Extraterrestrial Life in the Universe?"
John F. Hawley.
University of Virginia. November 23, 2005
Hazen, Robert M., and Maxine Singer.
Why Aren't Black Holes Black?
New York: Anchor Books, 1997.
Kong, Patricia. "Speed of the Milky Way in Space"
The Physics Factbook.
November 18, 2005
LaRocco, Chris, and Blair Rothstein. "The Big Bang"
Chris LaRocco and Blair Rothstein Present.
University of Michigan. Nov. 10, 2005
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"Milky Way."
Wikipedia.
November 18, 2005
Monterey Institute for Research in Astronomy. "Why Do Stars Twinkle?"
MIRA.
February 16, 1999. May 10, 2005