ABOUT THE AUTHOR ix PREFACE xi 1 ON THE SHOULDERS OF GIANTS 1 1.1 He(a)dy Stuff / 1 1.2 From Russia without English / 3 1.3 On the Shoulders of Giants / 5 1.4 Do-it-yourself Execution? / 8 1.5 Franklin: Did He or Didn't He? / 10 1.6 De Magnete ("On the Magnet") / 12 1.7 A Eureka Moment / 15 1.
8 Auld Lang Syne / 17 1.9 As Singular as a Delta Function? / 19 1.10 Publish or Perish? / 21 DID YOU KNOW? 24 2 THE EARTH AND BEYOND 27 2.1 In the Eye of the Beholder / 27 2.2 Roses are Red, Violets are Blue. / 30 2.3 2003: An Earth Odyssey? / 32 2.4 Which Came First: Big Bang or Big Crunch? / 34 2.
5 Whistling in the Dark? / 36 2.6 Going Beyond a Selfie / 38 DID YOU KNOW? 41 3 SEARCH FOR EXTRATERRESTRIAL INTELLIGENCE (SETI) 45 3.1 Little Green Men: A Phantom Menace? / 45 3.2 Waiting for Godot? / 47 3.3 Is There Anybody There? / 49 3.4 Science or Science Fiction? / 51 DID YOU KNOW? 54 4 PROFESSIONALISM: ETHICS AND LAW 59 4.1 Did Maxwell Pull a Fast One? / 59 4.2 Cell Phones and Cancer: Anatomy of a Legal Opinion / 61 4.
3 Happy 200th Anniversary! / 64 4.4 Einstein Doesn't Work Here Anymore / 66 4.5 It is a Bird. It is a Plane. It is. / 68 DID YOU KNOW? 71 5 HEALTH EFFECTS OF ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS 75 5.1 Say Au Revoir to Cell Phones? / 75 5.2 Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity / 78 5.
3 From Bell Tower to Cell Tower / 80 5.4 Nocebo: Reading This Column may Affect Your Health / 83 5.5 Magnetic Pull: Biological Effects or Medical Applications? / 85 5.6 Close Encounters With Radiation of the Other Kind / 88 DID YOU KNOW? 91 6 BIOMEDICAL APPLICATIONS 95 6.1 How Many Biologists Does it Take to Fix a Radio? / 95 6.2 The Grand Challenges / 97 6.3 Biomedical Applications: Taking Stock / 99 6.4 Tugging at the Heartstrings / 101 6.
5 A Jolt from the Blue? / 103 6.6 Channeling the Voice Within / 105 6.7 Battling Cancer: Microwave Hyperthermia / 107 DID YOU KNOW? 110 7 DEFENSE APPLICATIONS 113 7.1 Where is Waldo? / 113 7.2 Antimagnet / 115 7.3 Cutting to the Chase / 117 7.4 Twenty-First Century Warfare / 119 7.5 On a Wing and a Prayer / 121 7.
6 ELF Communication: An Obituary / 122 7.7 Catching up with Professor Scarry / 124 7.8 Criminal Interference / 126 7.9 Wireless Networks: An Electronic Battlefield? / 130 DID YOU KNOW? 133 8 DOMESTIC AND INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS 137 8.1 Blowin' in the Wind / 137 8.2 Sharing the Road / 139 8.3 Rare no More? / 141 8.4 Local Heating? / 143 8.
5 Coming Soon to a Wal-Mart Near You / 145 8.6 Has Your Cat Gone Phishing? / 148 8.7 The Future of Wireless Charging / 150 8.8 Electropollution or Sustainable Energy? / 151 DID YOU KNOW? 154 9 COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS 157 9.1 Small is Beautiful / 157 9.2 Gigabit Wi-Fi / 159 9.3 Open Spectrum: A Tragedy of the Commons? / 161 9.4 Near-Field Communication / 163 9.
5 A New Digital Phone? / 165 9.6 Electronic Countermeasures / 167 DID YOU KNOW? 170 10 LIFELONG LEARNING 175 10.1 Back to Basics / 175 10.2 Preaching to the Choir? / 177 10.3 The Other Davos? / 180 10.4 Mirror, Mirror on the Wall; who is the Fairest of Them All? / 182 10.5 Equations Redux / 184 10.6 New Year's Resolutions Laws / 185 10.
7 Through a Glass Darkly / 187 10.8 Stranger Than Fiction? / 189 10.9 High Frequency Education: What Do You Think? / 191 AFTERWORD 195 INDEX 197.