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This Idea Is Brilliant: Lost, Overlooked, and Underappreciated Scientific Concepts Everyone Should Know by John Brockman
Category: Science | Series: Edge Question Ser.
Brilliant but overlooked ideas you must know, as revealed by Steven Pinker, Jared Diamond, Lisa Randall, Richard Thaler, Carlo Rovelli, Richard Dawkins, Helen Fisher, Ian McEwen, and more of today's most innovative minds - A top-ten San Francisco Chronicle bestseller What scientific term or concept ough ...Show more
This Idea Must Die - Scientific Theories That Are Blocking Progress by John Brockman (ed.)
Category: Science | Series: Edge Question Series
The bestselling editor of This Explains Everything brings together 175 of the world’s most brilliant minds to tackle Edge.org’s 2014 question: What scientific idea has become a relic blocking human progress? Each year, John Brockman, publisher of Edge.org—”The world’s smartest website” (The Guardian)—c ...Show more
This Will Change Everything Ideas That Will Shape the Future by Brockman John
Category: Other Science
This Will Change Everything: Ideas That Will Shape the Future by John Brockman
Category: Science & Natural History | Series: Edge Question Series
"What game-changing scientific ideas and developments do you expect to live to see?" This is the question John Brockman, publisher of Edge.org, posed to more than 100 of the world's most influential minds. Exhilarating, visionary, sometimes frightening, but always fascinating, their responses provide a ...Show more
This Will Make You Smarter: New Scientific Concepts to Improve Your Thinking by John Brockman
Category: Science
Featuring a foreword by David Brooks, This Will Make You Smarter presents brilliant--but accessible--ideas to expand every mind.What scientific concept would improve everybody's cognitive toolkit? This is the question John Brockman, publisher of Edge.org, posed to the world's most influential thinkers. ...Show more
This Will Make You Smarter - New scientific concepts to improve your thinking by John Brockman
Category: Popular Science
Over 150 of the world's leading scientists and thinkers offer their choice of the ideas, strategies and arguments that will help all of us understand our world, and its future, better. Includes contributions from: Richard Dawkins, Stephen Pinker, Daniel Dennett, Clay Shirky, Daniel Goleman, Sam Harris, ...Show more
What Are You Optimistic About? by John Brockman
Category: Philosophy
In 2007 the leading online forum for scientists and thinkers, Edge, issued its third annual question: 'What are you optimistic about, and why?' As with its predecessors - 'What do you believe to be true but cannot prove?' and 'What is your dangerous idea?' - the question created an instant media storm, ...Show more
What Are You Optimistic About?: Today's Leading Thinkers on Why Things are Good and Getting Better by John Brockman
Category: Science | Series: Edge Question Series
The nightly news and conventional wisdom tell us that things are bad and getting worse. Yet despite dire predictions, scientists see many good things on the horizon. John Brockman, publisher of Edge (www.edge.org), the influential online salon, recently asked more than 150 high-powered scientific thinke ...Show more
What Have You Changed Your Mind About?: Today's Leading Minds Rethink Everything by John Brockman
Category: Science | Series: Edge Question Series
Even geniuses change their minds sometimes. Edge (www.edge.org), the influential online intellectual salon, recently asked 150 high-powered thinkers to discuss their most telling missteps and reconsiderations: What have you changed your mind about? The answers are brilliant, eye-opening, fascinating, so ...Show more
What Is Your Dangerous Idea?: Today's Leading Thinkers on the Unthinkable by John Brockman
Category: Science | Series: Edge Question Series
The world's leading scientific thinkers explore bold, remarkable, perilous ideas that could change our lives--for better . . . or for worse . . .From Copernicus to Darwin, to current-day thinkers, scientists have always promoted theories and unveiled discoveries that challenge everything society holds d ...Show more
What Should We Be Worried About?: Real Scenarios That Keep Scientists Up at Night by John Brockman
Category: Science | Series: Edge Question Series
Drawing from the horizons of science, today's leading thinkers reveal the hidden threats nobody is talking about-and expose the false fears everyone else is distracted by. What should we be worried about? That is the question John Brockman, publisher of Edge.org ("The world's smartest website"-The Guard ...Show more
What To Think About Machines That Think by John Brockman
Category: Business, Economics and Law | Series: Edge Question Ser.
Weighing in from the cutting-edge frontiers of science, today's most forward-thinking minds explore the rise of "machines that think." Stephen Hawking recently made headlines by noting, "The development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race." Others, conversely, have trum ...Show more