Everything Is Going to Kill Everybody

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 Oberdorster, 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.

Petrelis, Francois, Stephan 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/t ech/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 Pagan. “Ebola Virus Could Be Synthesized.” New Scientist, July 17, 2002.

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