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Know This - Today's Most Interesting and Important Scientific Ideas and Discoveries by John Brockman
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Category: Popular Science/Environment | Series: Edge Question Ser.
The latest volume in the bestselling series from Edge.org-dubbed "the world's smartest website" by The Guardian-brings together 175 of the world's most innovative and brilliant thinkers to discuss recent scientific breakthroughs that will shape the future. Scientific developments radically alter our und ...Show more
Life: The Leading Edge of Evolutionary Biology, Genetics, Anthropology, and Environmental Science by John Brockman
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Category: Popular Science/Environment | Series: Best of Edge Ser.
The newest addition to John Brockman's Edge.org series explores life itself, bringing together the world's leading biologists, geneticists, and evolutionary theorists-including Richard Dawkins, Edward O. Wilson, J. Craig Venter, and Freeman Dyson. Scientists' understanding of life is progressing more ra ...Show more
Possible Minds: Twenty-Five Ways of Looking at AI by John Brockman (Editor)
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Category: Popular Science/Environment
"Artificial intelligence is today's story--the story behind all other stories. It is the Second Coming and the Apocalypse at the same time- Good AI versus evil AI."--John BrockmanMore than sixty years ago, mathematician-philosopher Norbert Wiener published a book on the place of machines in society that ...Show more
This Idea Must Die - Scientific Theories That Are Blocking Progress by John Brockman (ed.)
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Category: Popular Science/Environment | Series: Edge Question Series | Reading Level: very good
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 Make You Smarter: New Scientific Concepts to Improve Your Thinking by John Brockman
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Category: Popular Science/Environment
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
What We Believe But Cannot Prove : Today's leading thinkers on science in the age of certainty by John Brockman
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Category: Popular Science/Environment | Reading Level: very good
"What do you believe is true even though you cannot prove it?" This was the question posed by John Brockman to a group of leading scientists and thinkers via his Edge.org website. The subsequent answers created a media storm and prompted a fiery debate about all aspects of science, technology and even t ...Show more
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