Modern Mind

mind-affecting, 501–2
E=mc 2 , 93, 107, 571
e-mail, 737;
see also
Internet
earth: age of, 124; photographed from space, 580–1;
see also
ecology
ecology, 582–6;
see also
animal behaviour
economics: and society, 646–55;
see also
acquisitive society; affluence; business-cycle theory; capitalism; consumerism; corporations (business); famines; free market
economics; Great Depression; Great Society; growth;
laissez-faire
; living standards; monetarism; New Deal; New Growth Theory; planned society; poverty; stagflation; underclass; unemployment; welfare state; and Bretton Woods; Wall Street Crash; and individual economists in Index of Names, People and Places
Ediacara, 686
edification (philosophy), 669–70
education: and abolition of schools, 535–6; criticised in USA, 729–31; in democracies, 77–8; and equality of opportunity, 533–6; and neighborhood effect, 519; popular, 220;
see also
universities
ego, the, 37
Eight-Fold Way, 509
élan vital see
life force
electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), 501
electronic music, 624
electronics, 477
electrons, 21–2, 37, 64, 93, 134, 258–9, 261–3, 267;
see also
particle physics
elephants: studied, 611–12, 618
elevators (lifts), 81n
emergent properties, 701
empiricism, 76, 91, 235, 632
encyclicals (papal)
see
Index of Names, People and Places under Popes John XXIII; Pius X and Pius XII
energy: emission of, 22–3
ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator and Calculator), 364–5
Enigma (code machine), 361–2, 364
Enovid (birth-control pill), 429
entropy, 22
environment
see
ecology
épuration
(French post-war purging), 409, 411
Erhard Seminar Training (EST), 598
ethnic cleansing, 766
ethology
see
animal behaviour
eugenics, 44, 113, 115, 242, 318;
see also
race theory
Eurodollars, 590
evidential research, 70
evolution: as ‘best idea, ever’, 3, 694; Catholic Church resists, 67–8; as concept, 66; and consciousness, 702, 756; effect on US intellectual life, 453; end of, 753; evolutionary synthesis, 371; human place in, 253–5, 371–2; and knowledge forms, 757–8; and Nietzsche’s philosophy, 40; popular acceptance of, 121, 124; and progress, 246; and racial differences, 121–2, 124–5; and recent human history, 752; religious response to, 207–8, 290; and right to exist, 617; and ‘saltation’, 372–3; and Scopes trial (Tennessee), 207; slow pace of, 71, 124–5; and stable strategy (ESS), 619–20; Teilhard de Chardin on, 577–8; teleology of, 769; theoretical work and writings on, 692–8;
see also
Darwinism
exclusion principle (physics), 259
existentialism, 407–8, 410–12, 414, 421, 630; and religion, 575–6
Explorer
(US space vehicle), 484
Expressionism, 56; in cinema, 221–2
Fabianism, 293
family life, 451, 601
family planning, 428–9
famines, 651
fascism: as danger in USA, 435; rise of, 224–6, 234; Socialist hostility to, 287; in Switzerland, 306
Fauvism, 60, 129, 165
feminism, 276–7, 422–3, 430–1, 530–2, 536
Fibonacci sequence, 747–8
films and cinema: beginnings, 86–9; creative innovations in (‘new wave’), 636–9; documentary, 327–8; Expressionist, 221–2; in India, 712; madness in, 490–1; Orson Welles and, 348–9; popularity, 234–5; and propaganda, 328–9, 331; realism in, 327; sound introduced, 326; in USSR, 329–30
fixed action patterns
see
animal behaviour
flexible accumulation, 680
flight: beginnings, 83–5, 89; and jet propulsion, 268–9; and Soviet aeronautics, 482–3
fossils
see
palaeontology
fractals, 746
Francophone thought, 753
free market economics, 650–2, 655–6, 753, 766–7
freedom
see
liberty
Freudianism
see
psychoanalysis
‘frodos’, 738
fruit fly see Drosophila melanogaster futurism, 164, 166
Gaia theory, 693
genes: and cancer research, 661; discovery of, 17; mathematics of, 748; physical composition, 373–4; and survival, 619–20;
see also
DNA; human genome project
Genesis, 573, 755
generic engineering, 616
genetic epistemology, 500
genetic fingerprinting, 682–3
genetics: de Vries on, 17–8; and ethics and social behaviour, 617–19, 693; and inheritance mechanism, 113–15; Mendel’s discoveries in, 18–19; Morgan’s theory of, 113–15; and mutation, 374; and race theory, 309–11; in Soviet Union, 318–21, 473–6;
see also
human genome project
geology: and age of earth, 124; and fossil
distribution, 122; and origins of life, 686;
see also
continental drift
German intuition, 240
Gestalt, 31–2
glands, ductless, 102–3
Gleitende, das,
29–30
global warming, 586
globalisation,