17. “VH1 ‘Love Shows’ Pronounced Fake,” Reality Rehash, 050808, http://realityrehash.com/index2.php/rant/vh1-love-shows-pronounced-fake.
18. “The Real World: Fake Storaayyy,” January 6, 2009, http://videogum.com/43951/the_real_world_fake_storaayyy/tv/reality-tv/.
19. “Sarah Palin Lays into Obama, Uses Crib Notes, Says Nothing of Substance,” The Hollywood Gossip, 020710 www.thehollywoodgossip.com/2010/02/sarah-palin-lays-into-obama-uses-crib-notes-says-nothing-of-subs/.
20. “Biden on Palin’s Speech: Style but No Substance,” CNN, September 4, 2008, http://articles.cnn.com/2008-09-04/politics/Biden.Palin_1_joe-biden-sarah-palin-debate?_s=PM:POLITICS.
21. Tracey Lomrantz, “Hillary Clinton Pulls a Pantsuit Out for the DNC: The Woman Knows What Works,” Glamour, August 27, 2008, www.glamour.com/fashion/blogs/slaves-to-fashion/2008/08/hillary-clinton-pulls-a-pantsu.html.
22. “Power Dressing,” The Guardian, March 17, 2008, www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandhealth/gallery/2008/mar/17/fashion.photography.
23. www.huffingtonpost.com/news/michelle-obama-style.
24. Daniel Mendelsohn, “The Mad Men Account,” The New York Review of Books, February 24, 2011, www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2011/feb/24/mad-men-account/.
25. Mimi Hall, “Jackie Kennedy Onassis: America’s quintessential icon of style and grace,” USA Today, September 26, 2010, www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2010-09-26-jfk-jackie-kennedy-onassis_N.htm.
26. Press Release, “Plastic Surgery Rebounds Along with Recovering Economy; 13.1 Million Cosmetic Procedures Performed in 2010, up 5%,” American Society of Plastic Surgeons, February 7, 2011, www.plasticsurgery.org/Media/Press_Releases/Plastic_Surgery_Rebounds_Along_with_Recovering_Economy.html.
27. Henry I. Miller, “Better Genes for Better Living,” Wall Street Journal, August 21, 1999, B1.
28. Andy Dehnart, “At last! The secrets of ‘Survivor’ revealed,” MSNBC, October 7, 2008, http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/26726792/ns/today-entertainment/.
10. Theseus and the Minotaur
1. “A Conversation: Suzanne Collins, Author of the Hunger Games Trilogy,” Scholastic, Inc., www.scholastic.com/thehungergames/media/qanda.pdf.
2. Ibid.
12. Medicines and Poisons
1. Carol Clark, On the Threshold of a Brave New Work, as reproduced by CNN at www.cnn.com/specials/2000/genome.
2. Glen Rains, www.uga.edu/aboutUGA/research-wasphounds.html.
13. Muttations and Other Hybrids
1. Frederick B. Rudolph and Larry V. McIntire, ed., Biotechnology: Science, Engineering, and Ethical Challenges for the 21st Century (Washington D.C.: Joseph Henry Press, 1996), 12.
2. Lois H. Gresh, TechnoLife 2020 (ECW Press, 2002).
3. Maryann Mott, “Animal-Human Hybrids Spark Controversy,” National Geographic, January 25, 2005, http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/01/0125_050125_chimeras.html.
4. Andy Barr, “Arizona legislature targets ‘human-animal’ hybrids,” April 30, 2010, www.politico.com/news/stories/0410/36594.html.
5. Gendy Alimurung, “Top 7 Human-Animal Hybrids Now Illegal Under Arizona Law,” LA Weekly, June 1, 2010, tp://blogs.laweekly.com/stylecouncil/2010/06/human-animal_hybrids_top_7_now.php.
6. Mott, op. cit.
7. Michael Gross, Travels to the Nanoworld: Miniature Machinery in Nature and Technology (Cambridge, MA: Perseus Publishing, 1999), 177.
8. Tara McKelvey, “ ‘Psychic’ parrots expected to ruffle scientific feathers,” USA Today, February 12, 2001, www.usatoday.com/life/2001-02-12-parrot.htm.
9. Donald Kroodsma, The Singing Life of Birds (Houghton Mifflin Company, 2007), 73.
14. More Weird Science
1. Richard Gray, “Star Trek-style force field armour being developed by military scientists,” The Telegraph, March 20, 2010, www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/7487740/Star-Trek-style-force-field-armour-being-developed-by-military-scientists.html.
2. www.defense-update.com/products/t/trophy.htm.
3. Roger Wolfson & Associates, Medical Orthotists Prosthetists, www.regerwolfsonandassociates.co.za/w-prosthetic-components-display.php.
4. Gregg Nighswonger, “New Polymers and Nanotubes Add Muscle to Prosthetic Limbs,” Medical Device & Diagnostic Industry Magazine, August 1999, www.devicelink.com/mddi/archive/99/08/004.html.
5. See the Biomimetic Products Inc. Web site at www.biomimetic.com/faq.html.
6. Kate Taylor, “MIT unveils holographic TV system,” January 24, 2011, www.tgdaily.com/hardware-features/53703-mit-unveils-holographic-tv-system?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+tgdaily_all_sections+%28TG+Daily+-+All+News%29
Appendix A: End-of-the-Word Scenarios
1. “Megaton Surface Blast: Pressure Damage,” American Experience PBS, www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/bomb/sfeature/1mtblast.html.
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