
Know This
Today's Most Interesting and Important Scientific Ideas, Discoveries, and Developments
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Narrated by:
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Gabra Zackman
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Dan John Miller
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By:
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John Brockman
The latest volume in the best-selling 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 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". In that spirit this new addition to Edge.org's fascinating series asks a powerful and provocative question: What do you consider the most interesting and important recent scientific news?
Contributors include the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Guns, Germs, and Steel, Jared Diamond, on the best way to understand complex problems; the author of Seven Brief Lessons 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; Nobel Prize-winning physicist Frank Wilczek on why the 21st century will be shaped by our mastery of the laws of matter; music legend Peter Gabriel on tearing down the barriers between imagination and reality; and Princeton physicist Freeman Dyson on the surprising ability of small (and cheap) upstarts to compete with billion-dollar projects. Plus Nobel laureate John C. Mather, Sun Microsystems cofounder Bill Joy, Skeptic magazine publisher Michael Shermer, Genome author Matt Ridley, Harvard geneticist George Church, and many more.
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Chapter 4: One interesting consequence of Jeremy's theory is that the humans should stop blaming each other for destroying their own environment because we were made exactly for that job. It is like members of the own team blame the best players in a win game for defeating the opponent./ake eckervallConsequences of Jeremy Englands idea
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Thought-provoking, fascinating, sometimes funny.
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very insightful
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Fascinating, exciting, confusing, dull
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Great Listen
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Which is okay...
The problem is that they spend half of these few minutes reciting the credentials of the author.
For example (I made this up): "John Doe, professor emeritus and holder of the cosmos chair of astronomy at Princeton University and author of the book "XYX" ... etc. It quickly becomes very annoying.
Lots of wasted time
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very interesting, very repetitive
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Not for everyone but AMAZING for Science People
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Everything You Feared About the Future in One Book
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