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 Mad scientist
Whether insane, eccentric, or simply bumbling, the mad scientist is often working with some utterly fictional technology in order to forward his or her evil schemes.
Mad scientists are typically characterized by obsessive behaviour and the employment of extremely dangerous or unorthodox methods.
Mad scientists, and the relationship between man and technology in general, are the focus of the current webcomic A Miracle of Science [1].
www.sfcrowsnest.com /scifinder/a/Mad_scientist.php   (1992 words)

  
 New mad cow woes
Mad cow disease is one of several fatal brain diseases called transmissible spongiform encephalopathies, or TSEs.
On Jan. 31., after the detection of 25 mad cows, Germany announced plans to slaughter and destroy 400,000 elderly cows, which, due to the long incubation period, are most prone to the disease.
Long after cows began going mad and dying of a brain-destroying disease, the government allowed their byproducts to be fed to other cows.
whyfiles.org /012mad_cow/index.html   (1109 words)

  
 The Dirty Half-Dozen: Mad Scientists
No list of Mad Scientists could be complete without the best-known “Mad” of them all: Dr. Forrester, who for six years tormented a couple of humans and robots in space by forcing them to watch the worst films ever made.
Claim to Mad Scientist fame: built an operational space station, launched it from earth into orbit with a janitor on board, forces janitor and his robot buddies to watch crappy flicks.
When diving into the well of Mad Scientists, we freely admit that our first stop isn’t necessarily on an island tropic paradise where a huge lardo wearing a mumu is blending animal genes in with human.
www.mutantreviewers.com /rdirty6mads.html   (838 words)

  
 Steve Quayle News Alerts
Banks was the principal scientist with quarantine authority, Biosecurity Australia, and heavily involved in protecting Australians from unwanted diseases and pests.
He was married with a 14-year-old son and a 20-year-old daughter, and was the chief scientist for chemical and biological defense at the Ministry of Defense's laboratory at Porton Down, Wiltshire.
Scientists and officials said the accident had raised concerns about safety and secrecy at the State Research Center of Virology and Biotechnology, known as Vector, which in Soviet times specialized in turning deadly viruses into biological weapons.
www.stevequayle.com /dead_scientists/UpdatedDeadScientists.html   (2467 words)

  
 ERBmania! - Nkima Speaks/Madness of Normal Bean
While amnesia is not madness or insanity per se, the actions of the persons under these delusions are often torn from the pages of abnormality.
The dangers of living in a mad world are a constant theme in the works of ERB from the madness of the Dum-Dum in Tarzan of the Apes to Caligula in I Am A Barbarian.
Sometimes the madness displayed is a moral madness, an evil of the heart without a trace of human compassion, yet the cases of clinical insanity in his works are frequent and often terrifying because of their intensity.
www.erblist.com /erbmania/nkima/nkimamadness.html   (2079 words)

  
 no.1780 - List of fictional heroic scientists   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
In contrast to the archetypical mad scientist, there are a lesser number of heroic scientists and engineers depicted in western culture who go above and beyond the regular demands of their professions to use their skills and knowledge for the betterment of others, often at great personal risk.
A mad scientist is a stock character of popular fiction, either villainous, or benign and scatterbrained.
Mad scientists, and the relationship between man and technology in general, are the focus of the current webcomic A Miracle of Science [http://www.project-apollo.net/mos/].
list.of.fictional.heroic.scientists.en.infoax.info   (12568 words)

  
 List of mad scientists - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
They are split into pre- and post-1945, as the images of mad scientists changed and proliferated in the years following the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and the increased role of scientists following World War II.
The main characters of The Chase of the Golden Meteor (La Chasse au météore) (1908) are three mad scientists: Dean Forsyth and Sidney Hudelson, rivalling astronomers, and the eccentric inventor Xirdal Zephyrin.
However, the real mad scientist of the series was an occasional villain named Dr. Droid, who constructed robot look-alikes of everyone because he believed robots to be superior.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_mad_scientists   (2454 words)

  
 Tests Confirm 2nd Mad Cow Case In U.S. - Health
This is the second case of mad cow disease in the United States.
He also directed USDA scientists to work with international experts to develop a new protocol that includes performing dual confirmatory tests should there be another inconclusive test.
He said 1,000 cows are tested for mad cow disease each day as part of the enhanced surveillance program that was put into effect after the first U.S. case of the disease was confirmed in December 2003.
www.turnto23.com /health/4649433/detail.html   (678 words)

  
 Mad Science FAQ
Mad Scientists must generally pay for expenses out of their own pockets, which may not be very deep.
As annoying and potentially hazardous as it is, for most Mad Scientists the lab is a shed, basement, bedroom, or garage, and the fumehood is the great outdoors.
Mad Scientists as a rule cannot afford the costly facilities or narrow specialization that characterize the cutting edge of scientific research.
www.sciencemadness.org /madscifaq.html   (2699 words)

  
 Mad Scientist Laboratory - School for Inventors
If you have ever thought of yourself as a mad scientist of some sort, and might like to be an educator with the MSL, or otherwise help in its development, please contact us.
If you have ever aspired to become something of a mad scientist, or are simply interested in an alternative approach to learning about product development, also please contact us.
If you have any question regarding the Mad Scientist Laboratory, School for Inventors, or want to contribute time, money, equipment, or the like, please feel free to contact us at msl@radmi.com.
www.madscilab.com   (517 words)

  
 Science and Technology - Science Fun (Mad Scientist)
Doctor Fun doesn't limit his cartoon subjects to mad science, but he has created several mad scientist knee-slappers, such as Doctor Thrombo and his gerbil accelerator and the brain-in-a-jar sound upgrade kit.
Mad scientist Jack Sarfatti posts his unique collection of scientific and cultural perspectives from a variety of sources.
Not only did these scientists use magnetism to levitate a frog, they also provide detailed explanations of the process, illustrations and the assurance that the healthy frog rejoined his fellow inmates in the biology department after the experiment.
www.centerofweb.com /scitech/scifun_mad.htm   (861 words)

  
 Dead Scientists And Microbiologists - Master List
--Expertise: He was the chief scientist for chemical and biological defence at the Ministry of Defence's laboratory at Porton Down, Wiltshire.
More than 310 Iraqi scientists are thought to have perished at the hands of Israeli secret agents in Iraq since fall of Baghdad to US troops in April 2003, a seminar has found.
The campaign is part of a Zionist plan to kill Arab and Muslim scientists working in applied research which Israel sees as threatening its interests," al-Iraqi said.
www.rense.com /general62/list.htm   (4509 words)

  
 NPR : Unraveling Mad Cow Disease
Morning Edition, February 17, 2004 · Mad cow disease and its human counterpart are among the most perplexing diseases on the planet.
But for more than 40 years now, they have been stymied by a group of brain-wasting diseases that includes mad cow disease, sheep scrapie, chronic wasting disease in deer, and variant CJD in humans.
Mad Cow Disease and CJD, at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
www.npr.org /templates/story/story.php?storyId=1678545   (380 words)

  
 Scientific Integrity Program | Union of Concerned Scientists
Because policy makers depend on impartial research to make informed decisions, we are mobilizing scientists and citizens alike to push for reforms that will protect our health, safety, and environment.
Hundreds of scientists at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration report pervasive political interference in their research, compromising the agency's ability to fulfill its mission of protecting public health and safety.
Released surveys of government scientists within the Food and Drug Administration, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Fisheries division documenting that political interference with science has become widespread at the agencies.
www.ucsusa.org /scientific_integrity   (664 words)

  
 Anders Mad Scientist Page
A chopper bicycle gang and temperance league, avaiting armageddon when the laws of physics will be repealed and they will rule the world through their machines.
Give me an underground laboratory, half a dozen atom-smashers, and a beautiful girl in a diaphanous veil waiting to be turned into a chimpanzee, and I care not who writes the nation's laws.
Mad Science, a television series which seems to capture the spirit of mad science perfectly.
www.nada.kth.se /~asa/mad.html   (514 words)

  
 Master LIst Of Dead Scientists & Microbiologists
In the 1980's over two dozen science graduates and experts working for Marconi or Plessey Defence Systems died in mysterious circumstances, most appearing to be 'suicides.' The MOD denied these scientists had been involved in classified Star Wars Projects and that the deaths were in any way connected.
Above list compiled by Raymond A. Robinson in 'The Alien Intent' (A Dire Warning)
Coincidently, both Dr. Shope and Dr. Kiley were working on the lab upgrade to BSL 4 at the UTMB Galvaston lab for Homeland Security.
www.infowars.com /articles/ps/microbiologist_slayings_master_list.htm   (4135 words)

  
 www.myspace.com/themadscientists
The Mad Scientists have spent much time in their underground laboratory developing a unique and perplexing sound.
Finally, The Mad Scientists brought the creature to life with 10,000 volts straight into the heart of Sonic Youth.
The Mad Scientists descend into their laboratory to blaze musical trails like hallucinogenic tracers, mocking and deconstructing the capitalism, competition, greed, selfishness, waste, and spiritual disconnection that lead our human race to the precipice of self-annihilation.
www.myspace.com /themadscientists   (2017 words)

  
 Peter's Evil Overlord List
In 1996 I revised the list entries to their current form, the Web page went up, more contributions were solicited, the list expanded beyond 100 and I had to open up a dungeon.
Other items appear identical to those on this list; since many are the result of my writing or editing, I believe they were taken from this list and posted to that list without permission.
It appears that as a result of this "cross-contamination", the two lists have arrived at a point where there are variations on each other and it is probably impossible to untangle them.
www.eviloverlord.com /lists/overlord.html   (4179 words)

  
 Creativity and Irrational Forces: Eccentric Artists and Mad Scientists
"Men have called me mad, but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence--whether much that is glorious--whether all that is profound--does not spring from disease of thought--from moods of mind exalted at the expense of the general intellect.
(8).Juda also found that artists and scientists as well as their brothers, sisters, children and grandchildren were more likely than the general population to suffer from mental disorder or commit suicide.
This in no way supports simplistic notions of the "mad genius." It seems clear from the research that that most emotionally unstable people are not extraordinarily creative, and most extraordinarily creative people are not emotionally unstable.
serendip.brynmawr.edu /bb/neuro/neuro99/web3/Gosselink.html   (4537 words)

  
 Fictional character biography .ms   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
List of fictional apes (and other non-human primates, excluding Monkeys)
Lists of fictional characters in specific works or series
List of Characters in The Chronicles of Narnia
www.biography.ms /Fictional_character.html   (2806 words)

  
 Denver Mad Scientists Club :: Have you blown up your garage today?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Mad Scientists and Tesla Coil Builders Playtime (Jun 26, 2004)
Or join us at one of the monthly brunch meetings held on the first Saturday of each month, or come on the second Sunday of each month when the DMSC and the Colorado Tesla Coil Builders Association meets to play with high powered toys.
No critter shall be required to compete within 10 minutes of its previous combat to permit recharging of batteries, replenishment of expendables, damage repair, etc. Machines requiring excessive time to prepare for their next combat, may be declared defeated by forfeit, at the judge(s) discretion.
dmsc.org   (1405 words)

  
 Amazon.com: The Mad Scientists' Club (Mad Scientist Club): Books: Bertrand R. Brinley,Charles Geer   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
The fact that the Mad Scientists of Mammoth Falls use science not for building great inventions or solving great mysteries, but primarily for playing clever pranks on the well deserving.
Brinley wrote three more books about the Mad Scientists' Club, all of them great, but this, the first one is IMHO the best.
It also includes an introduction written by Bertrand's son Sheridan and a chronological listing of the stories so you can read them in the order they were written (the order of the stories in the book was not changed).
www.amazon.com /Mad-Scientists-Club-Scientist/dp/1930900104   (1717 words)

  
 Northwest Science Fiction Resources
This is a list for and about discussing all aspects of Pacific Northwest fandom both wet side and dry side (Washington, Oregon, Idaho and Montana as well as Canada), convention related issues, media and much much more.
There are a number of lists that relate to the development of props.
This mailing list describes itself as being 'dedicated to promoting the art of Klingon make-up, prosthetics, costume design and construction here on Terra.' For those interested in looking Klingon, this is probably your good launching point for getting some additional information.
www.sfnorthwest.org /mailinglists.html   (816 words)

  
 Atypical Mad Cow Disease Cases Baffle US Scientists
Texas and Alabama have two new cases of Mad Cow Disease (BSE) which are baffling scientists who say they could be of a different strain and may appear spontaneously.
Even though scientists are baffled, authorities have decided to proceed as they would on typical BSE infections and base their assumptions on what is scientifically known and understood.
Cases of atypical BSE have cropped up in some other countries and caught the attention of scientists on both sides of the Atlantic.
www.medicalnewstoday.com /healthnews.php?newsid=45017   (383 words)

  
 The New Adventures of the Mad Scientists' Club   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
The mad, mad, Mad Scientists' Club of Mammoth Falls is back in action.
Mad Scientists' clubs have sprouted up, kids and grownups alike have been eagerly reading these incredible adventures, and the persistent, popular demand has been for more adventures!
So our seven young scientists, complete with clubhouse, electronic gear and wild, weird schemes are back again with flying saucers, electronic crime detection, seismographs, rockets, weather control, submarines (for real!) and well, you won't believe it until you read it.
isbn.nu /1930900112   (451 words)

  
 Capricon 25 - Mad Scientists - Critter Crunch
Viktor Frankenstein was the epitome of the Victorian Mad Scientist, trying to push the bounds of knowledge beyond what it was given man to know.
Today’s Mad Scientist is likely to be an employee of a super secret government agency, plotting to fasten the bonds of tyranny on us.
Being a mad scientist implies a willingness--nay, a compulsion--to get one’s fingers dirty, work with dangerous materials, and toil long (and odd) hours making something no normal person would bother with.
www.capricon.org /capricon25/programming.html   (1687 words)

  
 MAD SCIENCE MEDIA: SCIENTISTS
United by their various ties to the comic book industry, the brainiacs at Mad Science Media have a strange tendency to write about themselves in the third person.
Despite that one shortcoming, they've found their shared and contrasting talents make Mad Science Media an unholy fusion of raw creativity and refined technique.
Marie maintains the New York office of Mad Science Media and, under her own comic book imprint known as Pig Run Press, Marie is the editor / publisher of Scorched Birth.
www.madsciencemedia.com /scientists/index.html   (456 words)

  
 Mad-Scientists Info Page
The International Society of Mad Scientists is dedicated to disseminating information about unusual projects in any field.
Membership is open to anyone that in practice or spirit considers themselves to be a Mad Scientist.
This is also a private list, which means that the list of members is not available to non-members.
www.mad-scientists.org /mailman/listinfo/mad-scientists   (301 words)

  
 The Mad Rocket Scientists Avatition Webpage
In fact, as far as the plans built community is concerned, it had no affect on the world wide building and learning effort that is the Dragonfly family.
Oh yea, we Mad Rocket Engineers were being ignored by the factory long before the rest of the gang got disowned.
There may be " Propulsion Scientist ", but they don't know how to make a rocket fly.
www.angelfire.com /on/dragonflyaircraft/index.html   (949 words)

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