This Idea Is Brilliant

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Publisher Place: New York
Publisher Year: 2018
Edition: First Edition

Description: 515 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in Fine condition throughout.

Publishers Description: The latest volume in the bestselling series from Edge.org”dubbed the worlds smartest website� by The Guardian”brings together 206 of the worlds most innovative thinkers to discuss the scientific concepts that everyone should know.As science informs public policy, decision making, and so many aspects of our everyday lives, a scientifically literate society is crucial. In that spirit, Edge.org publisher and author of Know This, John Brockman, asks 206 of the worlds most brilliant minds the 2017 Edge Question: What scientific term or concept ought to be more widely known? Contributors include: author of The God Delusion RICHARD DAWKINS on using animals Genetic Book of the Dead� to reconstruct ecological history; MacArthur Fellow REBECCA NEWBERGER GOLDSTEIN on scientific realism,� the idea that scientific theories explain phenomena beyond what we can see and touch; author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics CARLO ROVELLI on relative information,� which governs the physical world around us; theoretical physicist LAWRENCE M. KRAUSS on the hidden blessings of uncertainty�; cognitive scientist and author of The Language Instinct STEVEN PINKER on The Second Law of Thermodynamics�; biogerontologist AUBREY DE GREY on why maladaptive traits� have been conserved evolutionarily; musician BRIAN ENO on confirmation bias� in the internet age; Man Booker-winning author of Atonement IAN MCEWAN on the Navier-Stokes Equations,� which govern everything from weather prediction to aircraft design and blood flow; plus pieces from RICHARD THALER, JARED DIAMOND, NICHOLAS CARR, JANNA LEVIN, LISA RANDALL, KEVIN KELLY, DANIEL COLEMAN, FRANK WILCZEK, RORY SUTHERLAND, NINA JABLONSKI, MARTIN REES, ALISON GOPNIK, and many, many others.     

ISBN: 9780062698216