This Explains Everything

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DRAWN FROM THE CUTTING-EDGE FRONTIERS OF SCIENCE, This Explains Everything WILL REVOLUTIONIZE YOUR UNDERSTANDING OF THE WORLD. What is your favorité deep, elegant, orbeautiful explanation? This is the question John Brockman, publisher of Edge.org ("The world's smartest website" - 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 our minds, societies, and universe work. JARED DIAMOND on biological electricity • NASSIM NICHOLAS TALEB on positive stress • STEVEN PINKER on the deep genetic roots of humán conflict • RICHÁRD DAWKINS on pattern recognition • Nobel Prizewinning physicist FRANK WILCZEK on simplicity • LISA RANDALL on the Higgs mechanism • BRIAN EN0 on the limits of intuition • RICHÁRD THALER on the power of commitment • V. S. RAMACHANDRAN on the "neural code" of consciousness • Nobel... Tovább

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DRAWN FROM THE CUTTING-EDGE FRONTIERS OF SCIENCE, This Explains Everything WILL REVOLUTIONIZE YOUR UNDERSTANDING OF THE WORLD. What is your favorité deep, elegant, orbeautiful explanation? This is the question John Brockman, publisher of Edge.org ("The world's smartest website" - 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 our minds, societies, and universe work. JARED DIAMOND on biological electricity • NASSIM NICHOLAS TALEB on positive stress • STEVEN PINKER on the deep genetic roots of humán conflict • RICHÁRD DAWKINS on pattern recognition • Nobel Prizewinning physicist FRANK WILCZEK on simplicity • LISA RANDALL on the Higgs mechanism • BRIAN EN0 on the limits of intuition • RICHÁRD THALER on the power of commitment • V. S. RAMACHANDRAN on the "neural code" of consciousness • Nobel Prize winner ERIC KANDEL on the power of psychotherapy • MIHÁLY CSIKSZENTMIHALYI on "Lord Acton's Dictum" • LAWRENCE M. KRAUSS on the unifícation of electricity and magnetism • plus contributions by MARTIN J. REES • KEVIN KELLY • CLAY SHIRKY • DÁNIEL C. DENNETT • SHERRY TURKLE • PHILIP ZIMBARDO • LEE SMOLIN • REBECCA NEWBERGER GOLDSTEIN • SETH LLOYD • STEWART BRAND • GEORGE DYSON • MATT RIDLEY Vissza