| Publication |
New York, Harper Perennial, 2017.
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| Description |
xxviii, 572pBlack spine
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| Summary/Abstract |
The world's most innovative and brilliant thinkers discuss recent scientific breakthroughs that will shape the future.Scientific developments radically alter our understanding of the world. Whether it's technology, climate change, health research, or the latest revelations of neuroscience, physics, or psychology, science has, as Edge editor John Brockman says, "become a big story, if not the big story." Contributors include: Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Guns, Germs, and Steel JARED DIAMOND on the best way to understand complex problems; author of Seven Brief Lesson on Physics CARLO ROVELLI on the mystery of black holes; Harvard psychologist STEVEN PINKER on the quantification of human progress; TED conferences curator CHRIS J. ANDERSON on the growth of the global brain; Harvard physicist LISA RANDALL on the true measure of breakthrough discoveries.
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| Standard Number |
9780062562067 Pb.
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