Aesop, 258
Alcohol, 41
Alexander the Great, 258
Alien abduction, 266-267
Alternating current, 10, 13, 28
Alzheimer's disease, 202
Amnesia, 28
Anafranil, ix, 188, 189, 307
Archimedes, 258
Aristotle, xvii, 258
Asimov, Isaac, 257
Attention-deficit disorder, 303
Attila the Hun, 258
Auditory hallucinations, 24, 26-27, 308
Autism, 303
Beauty index, 138
Beethoven, 259
Bentham, Jeremy, ix, 98-103
Bentinck-Scott, 191, 252
Berryman, John, 2
Bibliomania, 194-195
Bierce, Ambrose, 259
Bipolar disorder, ix, 2, 184, 188, 265, 273, 297
Blake, William, 258
Body dismorphic disorder, 307
Boulard, M., 194
Boxing, 203
Boyle, 258
Brain shelter, 201-203
Brain, 3, 209-213, 219, 300; see also Questionnaire, human mind
Breakthroughs, 298-310
Buddha, 267, 297
Burton, Clive, 202-203
Byron, 272
Carroll, Lewis, 262
Cavendish, Henry, 3, 104-112, 252, 258, 261
Celibacy, 10, 52, 105, 155, 158, 259; see also Women
Cerenkov radiation, 52
Chemistry, 92, 104
Cheney, Margaret, 20
Cholesterol, 309
Claustrophilia, x
Clomipramine hydrochloride, ix
Clothing, 31
Collyer brothers, 191
Corpses, x, 103
Corsellis, Nick, 202
Cryonics, 3-4, 311
Cyberspace, 197
Darkness: see Scotophilia
Darwin, Charles, 116, 258, 288-290
de Maupassant, Guy, 271
Deformities, 258
Demosthenes, 258
Depression: see Unipolar disorder
Descartes, 259
Diamond, Marian, 205
Dick, Philip K., 271
Diets, 48
Dostoevsky, Fyodor, 154, 262, 267
Earth cracker, 38
Edison, Thomas, 10, 14, 28, 70, 259-260
Einstein, Albert, viii, 25, 204-208, 257, 260
Einstein's brain, 204-208
Einstein's children, 208
Electricity, 10, 13; see also Tesla, Nikola; Heaviside, Oliver
Electroplating, 4
Epilepsy, ix, 142, 154, 188, 262-270, 297, 303, 317-318
Epilogue, 251-243
Erdos, Paul, 280-285
Eugenics, 114, 132
Ezekiel, 269
Father figures, 261
Fear of Germs: see Germs
Fears: see Phobias
Feynman, Richard, 257, 286-288
Fielding, Amanda, 294
FitzGerald, George, 66
Flaubert, 259, 262, 271
Fleming, Alexander, 258
Fluoxitine hydrochloride: see Prozac
Fluvoxamine, 188
Fly man: see Kirwan, Richard
Flying, 21-22
Food, 48, 70-73, 105, 142, 154, 178
Freudians, 313
Galileo, 259
Galton, Francis, 3, 113-140, 260
Geissler tubes, 31
Genetics, 301, 303, 306, 308, 309
Geology, 94
Germs, 30, 84, 90, 96-97, 182, 292
Gleick, James, 287
Glial cells, 206, 212
Hair-pulling, 189-190, 316-317
Hallucinations: see Visual hallucinations
Hand-washing, 30
Happiness, 309-310
Harvey, Thomas, 205
Harvey, William, 191, 252, 296
Heat loving, 57
Heaviside, Oliver, viii, 3, 51-79, 82, 260, 264
Heber, Richard, 195
Height, 258
Hemingway, Ernest, 2
Hesse, Herman, 2
Hoarding, 190-194
Homosexuality, 306; see also Celibacy
Hotels, 20
Hughes, Howard, 184, 291-293
Hunter, John, 258
Hydrocephalus, 212
Hyperacusis, 26
Hypergraphia, 152, 155, 264-265, 271
Hyperreligiosity, 263
Hypochondria: see Germs
Immune system, 303
Inheritance of intelligence, 127
Ionosphere, 60
IQ and race, 128
IQ, 117, 165, 216-221; see also Questionnaire, human mind
Jamison, Kay, 273, 297
Jewelry, 21, 31, 34
Jews, 10, 132, 142, 147
Johnson, Samuel, 80-89, 154, 185
Joyce, James, 259
Kaczynski, Theodore, 157-182, 314-315
Kennedy, Susanna, 296-297
Kennelly-Heaviside layer, 60
Kirkegaard, 259
Kirwan, Richard, 90-97
Language, 304
Lasher, 219
Laxative, 3, 11
Leedskalnin, Edward, 293-295
LePlante, Eve, 258, 262-269, 275
Lister, Joseph, 258
Lorber, John, 212
Ludwig, Arnold, 260-261
Luvox: see Fluvoxamine
Mahler, Gustave, 2
Major depression: see Unipolar disorder
Manic depression: see Bipolar disorder
Marconi, Guglielmo, 10
Mars, 36, 39
Maxwell, James, 53, 57, 107, 260
Measuring: see Galton, Francis
Mellen, Joey, 294
Memory, photographic, 29
Memory, 219
Michelangelo, 317
Mill, John, xi
Mineralogy, 94
Mingus, Charles, 2
Mohammed, 267-268
Moses, 268
Motors, 13
Mozart, 260
Multiples of 3, 20
Music, 304
Musicians, 297
Nahin, Paul, 63, 65, 76, 79; see also Heaviside, Oliver
Nelson, 258
Neurons, 3
Neurosis, 308
Newton, Isaac, 2-3, 56, 109, 258, 260, 312-313
Nollekens, Joseph, ix
Numbers, 130, 186
O'Keefe, Georgia, 2
Obesity, 309
Obsessive-compulsive disorder, 20, 82-84, 183-200, 262-265, 275, 292, 300
Ogden, Charles, x
Oscillator, 38
Out-of-the-body experiences, 266
Panic disorder, 320
Paul (Saint), 259, 268-270
Pearls: see Jewelry
Persinger, Michael, 266
Philosophers, 297
Phobias, 31; see also Germs
Pickover, Clifford, 326-327
Pigeons, 10, 41-44, 67
Plath, Sylvia, 2
Poe, Edgar, vii, 2
Pope, 258
Porter, Cole, 2
Pound, Ezra, 2
Priapism, 158, 182
Prozac, ix, 97, 188, 307
Pyke, Geoffrey, 26, 141-156, 216, 264, 271
Pykrete, 142, 149
Quaternion, 51, 174
Questionnaire, human mind, 214-250
Race and IQ, 128
Radio, 19
Radiometer, 34
Rapoport, Judith, 183, 185
Ratsr: see Bentham, Jeremy
Rawlinson, Thomas, 194
Reading disability, 303
Religion, 40, 47, 53, 66, 81, 114, 128, 136, 263-270, 275
Richards, Ruth, 274
Rock furniture, 62
Rothko, Mark, 2
Runners-up list, 279-297
Scheibel, Arnold, 205
Schizophrenia, 275, 301-302, 308, 318
Scotophilia, 40
Serotonin, ix, 188
Sexton, Anne, 2
Sexual abuse, 306
Sexuality: 259, 264; see also Women; Celibacy;
Shakespeare, William, 259
Shyness: see Cavendish, Henry; Bentham, Jeremy; Kaczynski, Theodore
Smith, Adam, 258
Smith, Anthony, 261
Speaking problems, 258
Stammers, 258
Stieglitz, Alfred, 259
Strieber, Whitley, 266-267
Superluminal radiation, 52
Swallowers, 299
Synesthesia, 21
Temporal lobe epilepsy: see Epilepsy
Tennyson, Alfred, 271
Tesla, Nikola, viii, 5, 9-50, 63, 67, 82, 184, 258, 259
Thermophilia, 57, 90
Thoreau, Henry, vii
Thought photography, 46
Transhumanism, 219
Trazodone, 158, 181
Trepaning, 294
Trichotillomania: see Hair-pulling
Twain, Mark, 2
UFO, 266-269
Unabomber, 157-182, 314-314
Unipolar disorder, ix, 142, 297, 305, 309
Updates, 298-310
van Gogh, Vincent, 2, 154, 262-264, 270
Venusian, 30
Victorian age, 256-257
Virgil, 258
Virus, 305
Visual hallucinations, 23, 25, 135, 263-265
Visualizing numbers, 130
vos Savant, Marilyn, 215
Waterton, Charles, x
Wheatstone, Charles, 56, 49
Whitman, Walt, 2
Wiener, Norbert, 261
Williams syndrome, 26
Williams: Tennessee, 2
Women, 44, 54, 155, 259
Woolf, Virginia, 2
Worm Man: see Heaviside, Oliver
Wren, 258
Writers, 297
X-rays, 34