From ER to E.T.

Rajeev Bansal, PhD, is a professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Connecticut. He is a member of IEEE and the Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering. He is a Fellow of the Electromagnetics Academy. His editing credits include Fundamentals of Engineering Electromagnetics and  Engineering Electromagnetics: Applications. Dr. Bansal contributes regular columns to IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine and IEEE Microwave Magazine.

• ABOUT THE AUTHOR ix PREFACE xi1 ON THE SHOULDERS OF GIANTS 11.1 He(a)dy Stuff / 11.2 From Russia without English / 31.3 On the Shoulders of Giants / 51.4 Do-it-yourself Execution? / 81.5 Franklin: Did He or Didn’t He? / 101.6 De Magnete (“On the Magnet”) / 121.7 A Eureka Moment / 151.8 Auld Lang Syne / 171.9 As Singular as a Delta Function? / 191.10 Publish or Perish? / 21DID YOU KNOW? 242 THE EARTH AND BEYOND 272.1 In the Eye of the Beholder / 272.2 Roses are Red, Violets are Blue… / 302.3 2003: An Earth Odyssey? / 322.4 Which Came First: Big Bang or Big Crunch? / 342.5 Whistling in the Dark? / 362.6 Going Beyond a Selfie / 38DID YOU KNOW? 413 SEARCH FOR EXTRATERRESTRIAL INTELLIGENCE (SETI) 453.1 Little Green Men: A Phantom Menace? / 453.2 Waiting for Godot? / 473.3 Is There Anybody There? / 493.4 Science or Science Fiction? / 51DID YOU KNOW? 544 PROFESSIONALISM: ETHICS AND LAW 594.1 Did Maxwell Pull a Fast One? / 594.2 Cell Phones and Cancer: Anatomy of a Legal Opinion / 614.3 Happy 200th Anniversary! / 644.4 Einstein Doesn’t Work Here Anymore / 664.5 It is a Bird. It is a Plane. It is… / 68DID YOU KNOW? 715 HEALTH EFFECTS OF ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS 755.1 Say Au Revoir to Cell Phones? / 755.2 Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity / 785.3 From Bell Tower to Cell Tower / 805.4 Nocebo: Reading This Column may Affect Your Health / 835.5 Magnetic Pull: Biological Effects or Medical Applications? / 855.6 Close Encounters With Radiation of the Other Kind / 88DID YOU KNOW? 916 BIOMEDICAL APPLICATIONS 956.1 How Many Biologists Does it Take to Fix a Radio? / 956.2 The Grand Challenges / 976.3 Biomedical Applications: Taking Stock / 996.4 Tugging at the Heartstrings / 1016.5 A Jolt from the Blue? / 1036.6 Channeling the Voice Within / 1056.7 Battling Cancer: Microwave Hyperthermia / 107DID YOU KNOW? 1107 DEFENSE APPLICATIONS 1137.1 Where is Waldo? / 1137.2 Antimagnet / 1157.3 Cutting to the Chase / 1177.4 Twenty-First Century Warfare / 1197.5 On a Wing and a Prayer / 1217.6 ELF Communication: An Obituary / 1227.7 Catching up with Professor Scarry / 1247.8 Criminal Interference / 1267.9 Wireless Networks: An Electronic Battlefield? / 130DID YOU KNOW? 1338 DOMESTIC AND INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS 1378.1 Blowin’ in the Wind / 1378.2 Sharing the Road / 1398.3 Rare no More? / 1418.4 Local Heating? / 1438.5 Coming Soon to a Wal-Mart Near You / 1458.6 Has Your Cat Gone Phishing? / 1488.7 The Future of Wireless Charging / 1508.8 Electropollution or Sustainable Energy? / 151DID YOU KNOW? 1549 COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS 1579.1 Small is Beautiful / 1579.2 Gigabit Wi-Fi / 1599.3 Open Spectrum: A Tragedy of the Commons? / 1619.4 Near-Field Communication / 1639.5 A New Digital Phone? / 1659.6 Electronic Countermeasures / 167DID YOU KNOW? 17010 LIFELONG LEARNING 17510.1 Back to Basics / 17510.2 Preaching to the Choir? / 17710.3 The Other Davos? / 18010.4 Mirror, Mirror on the Wall; who is the Fairest of Them All? / 18210.5 Equations Redux / 18410.6 New Year’s Resolutions Laws / 18510.7 Through a Glass Darkly / 18710.8 Stranger Than Fiction? / 18910.9 High Frequency Education: What Do You Think? / 191AFTERWORD 195INDEX 197