1. Caenorhabditis elegans, 1, 2, 3 n. 13
2. calcium, 1
3. calculus, 1
4. Caledonian mountains, 1
5. California, University of, at Santa Barbara, 1
6. California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, 1 n. 23
7. Cambridge, 1
8. camels, 1
9. Canada, 1, 2
10. cancer-causing chemicals, 1
11. capillaries, 1
12. capital, 1
13. capitalism, 1;
    1. free-market, 1;
    2. profit, 1;
    3. see also market, the
14. carbon, 1, 2, 3
15. carbon dioxide, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 n. 11, 6 n. 1
16. Carlyle, Thomas, 1
17. carnivores, 1
18. Carnot, Sadi, 1 n. 7
19. Carroll, Lewis, 1;
    1. Alice in Wonderland, 1, 2;
    2. Through the Looking-Glass, 1
20. cars, 1, 2, 3, 4
21. Cassini spacecraft, 1
22. cattle, 1
23. cats, 1, 2;
24. sabre-toothed, 1
25. cave-dwelling, 1
26. CDO (Collateralised Debt Obligation), 1
27. CDO-squared, 1
28. cells, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6;
    1. chemical signalling, 1, 2, 3, 4 n. 8;
    2. complexity, 1;
    3. cooperation, 1, 2, 3;
    4. communication, 1, 2;
    5. creation, 1, 2, 3, 4;
    6. and dehydration, 1;
    7. division, 1, 2 n. 8;
    8. and DNA, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;
    9. electrical charge, 1, 2;
    10. fusion, 1;
    11. heat-sensitive, 1;
    12. integration, 1;
    13. ion channels, 1;
    14. light-sensitive, 1;
    15. membrane, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 n. 5, 10 n. 7;
    16. microtubules, 1;
    17. nucleus, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 n. 12; 7 n. 10;
    18. protection, 1;
    19. and proteins, 1, 2 n. 5;
    20. reconstitution, 1 n. 5;
    21. size, 1;
    22. structure, 1, 2, 3 n. 5;
    23. transportation system, 1, 2;
    24. visual appearance, 1;
    25. voltage-gated ion channels, 1;
    26. see also apoptosis, blood cells, cytoplasm, endoplastic reticulum, Golgi
    27. apparatus, gonad cells, Krebs cycle, lysosomes, mitochondria, neurons, organelles, prokaryotes, ribosomes, vesicles
29. Celsius scale, 1 n. 10
30. centrifugal force, 1, 2 n. 5
31. cereal crops, 1
32. cerebellum, see brain
33. cerebrovascular fluid, 1
34. cerebrum, see neocortex
35. chalk, 1
36. Chandrasekhar, Subrahmanyan, 1
37. Chang, Ja-Hoon, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;
    1. 23 Things They Don’t Tell You About Capitalism, 1
38. chaos theory, 1
39. chemistry and chemists, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
40. Cherenkov light, 1 n. 7
41. Chicago School, 1
42. chickens, 1
43. child bearing, 1
44. child labour, 1
45. child rearing, 1
46. Chile, 1, 2
47. chimpanzees, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6;
    1. DNA, 1, 2, 3;
    2. see also hominins
48. China, 1, 2
49. chips, see microchips
50. chlorophyll, 1
51. chloroplasts, 1 n. 6
52. chromatin, 1 n. 10
53. chromosomes, 1, 2, 3, 4 n. 10; 5 n. 15;
    1. number, 1;
    2. X, 1;
    3. Y, 1;
    4. see also SRY
54. Church, George, 1 n. 8
55. Churchill, Winston, 1, 2, 3 n. 1
56. cilia, 1
57. civilisation, 1, 2
58. Clarke, Arthur C., 1;
    1. 2001: A Space Odyssey, 1
59. Clarkson University, New York, 1 n. 8
60. Clausius, Rudolf, 1
61. climate, 1
62. climate change, 1, 2, 3, 4
63. Clinton, Bill, 1, 2 n. 2
64. clothing, 1, 2
65. coal, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 n. 5, 8 n. 1
66. Coase, Ronald, 1
67. cobbles, 1
68. colour, 1, 2, 3;
    1. spectrum, 1, 2 n. 11
69. comets, 1, 2 n. 2
70. commerce, see trade
71. commodities, 1, 2
72. communism, 1, 2, 3
73. compass, magnetic, 1, 2 n. 12
74. computers, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8;
    1. adders, 1, 2;
    2. AND/OR gates, 1;
    3. circuits, 1;
    4. desktop, 1;
    5. gates, 1;
    6. halting problem, 1;
    7. integrated circuits, 1, 2 n. 10;
    8. laptops, 1;
    9. logic gates, 1, 2, 3;
    10. magnetic medium, 1;
    11. memory, 1;
    12. PCs, 1;
    13. power, 1, 2 n. 2;
    14. programming, 1, 2, 3;
    15. speed, 1;
    16. see also microchips, silicon, transistors, uncomputability
75. Conan Doyle, Arthur, 1 n. 1
76. conductors: electricity, 1, 2, 3 n. 5, 4 n. 15;
    1. heat, 1 n. 8;
    2. see also wire coil, conducting conic sections, 1 n. 10
77. Conklin, Edwin Grant, 1
78. consciousness, 1
79. continental crust, 1, 2 n. 7
80. continental drift, 1
81. continents, 1, 2, 3
82. cooking, 1
83. Copernicus, Nicolaus, 1
84. copper, 1 n. 15
85. Coriolis force, 1 n. 10
86. corpus calossum, see neocortex
87. cosmic background radiation, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 n. 2, 7 nn. 3, 4; 8 n. 5, 9 n. 8, 10 n. 14;
    1. temperature, 1, 2
88. cosmic rays, 1 n. 14
89. cosmic speed limit, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 n. 9
90. cosmology and cosmologists, 1, 2, 3 n. 5;
    1. precision cosmology, 1 n. 18
91. craft and craftsmen, 1, 2, 3
92. creationism, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 n. 4
93. credit cards, 1
94. credit-rating agencies, 1
95. Crick, Francis, 1 n. 6
96. Cringely, Robert X., 1, 2 n. 14
97. Cro-Magnons, 1
98. crops, see farming
99. crystal, 1, 2, 3 n. 8
100. cuneiform, 1
101. curiosity, 1, 2
102. Curzon, Paul, 1 n. 6
103. cyanobacteria, 1, 2, 3, 4 n. 6
104. cyclones, see weather systems
105. Cygnus X-1, 1
106. cystic fibrosis, 1
107. cytoplasm, 1, 2, 3, 4
108. cytosine, 1