This Explains Everything
John Brockman
- 432 pages
- English
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This Explains Everything
John Brockman
Ă propos de ce livre
Drawn from the cutting-edge frontiers of science, This Explains Everything will revolutionize your understanding of the world.
What is your favorite deep, elegant, or beautiful explanation? This is the question John Brockman, publisher of Edge.org ("The world's smartest website"â The Guardian ), posed to the world's most influential minds. Flowing from the horizons of physics, economics, psychology, neuroscience, and more, This Explains Everything presents 150 of the most surprising and brilliant theories of the way of our minds, societies, and universe work.
Jared Diamond on biological electricity âą Nassim Nicholas Taleb on positive stress âą Steven Pinker on the deep genetic roots of human conflict âą Richard Dawkins on pattern recognition âą Nobel Prize-winning physicist Frank Wilczek on simplicity âą Lisa Randall on the Higgs mechanism âą BRIAN Eno on the limits of intuition âą Richard Thaler on the power of commitment âą V. S. Ramachandran on the "neural code" of consciousness âą Nobel Prize winner ERIC KANDEL on the power of psychotherapy âą Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi on "Lord Acton's Dictum" âą Lawrence M. Krauss on the unification of electricity and magnetism âą plus contributions by Martin J. Rees âą Kevin Kelly âą Clay Shirky âą Daniel C. Dennett âą Sherry Turkle âą Philip Zimbardo âą Lee Smolin âą Rebecca Newberger Goldstein âą Seth Lloyd âą Stewart Brand âą George Dyson âą Matt Ridley