Know this : today's most interesting and important scientific ideas, discoveries, and developments
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- ISBN: 9780062562067
- ISBN: 0062562061
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Physical Description:
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xxviii, 573 pages ; 21 cm - Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York, NY : Harper Perennial, [2017]
- Copyright: ©2017
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Preface : the edge question / by John Brockman -- Human progress quantified / Steven Pinker -- Doing more with less / Freeman Dyson -- The "specialness" of humanity / Kurt Gray -- J.M. Bergoglio's 2015 review of global ecology / Stuart Pimm -- Leaking, thinning, sliding ice / Laurence C. Smith -- Glaciers / Robert Trivers -- Our collective blind spot / Jennifer Jacquet -- Three de-carbonizing scientific breakthroughs / Bill Joy -- Juice / James Croak -- A call to action / Hans Ulrich Obrist -- A bridge between the 21st and 22nd century / Koo Jeong-A -- Greatest environmental disaster / Richard Muller -- Technobiophilic cities / Scott Sampson -- LENR could supplant fossil fuels / Carl Page -- Emotions influence environmental well-being / June Gruber -- Global warming redux : a serious challenge to our species / Milford H. Wolpoff -- Blue marble 2.0 / Giulio Boccaletti -- High-tech stone age / Tor Nørretranders -- Dematerialization of consumption / Rory Sutherland -- Science made this possible / Bruce Parker -- Brain is a strange planet / Dustin Yellin -- Abdication of spacetime / Donald D. Hoffman -- News that wasn't there / Antony Garrett Lisi -- No news is astounding news / Lee Smolin -- One hundred years of failure / Seth Lloyd -- Hope beyond the Higgs Boson / Sarah Demers -- An unexpected, haunting signal / Gerald Holton -- News about how the physical world operates / Leonard Susskind -- Unpublicized implications of Hawking black-hole evaporation / Frank Tipler -- Energy of nothing / Andrei Linde -- Big bang cannot be what we thought it was / Paul J. Steinhardt -- Anomalies / Stephon H. Alexander -- Looking where the light isn't / Brian G. Keating -- Simplicity / Neil Turok -- LHC is working at full energy / Gordon Kane -- New probes of Einstein's curved spacetime--and beyond? / Steve Giddings -- Supermassive black holes / Jeremy Bernstein -- Gigantic black holes at the center of galaxies / Carlo Rovelli -- Universe is infinite / Rudy Rucker -- Advanced LIGO and advanced Virgo / Paul Davies -- News is not the news / Frank Wilczek -- We know all the particles and forces we're made of / Sean Carroll -- Computational complexity and the nature of reality / Amanda Gefter -- Einstein was wrong / Hans Halvorson -- Replacing magic with mechanism? / Ross Anderson -- Quantum entanglement is independent of space and time / Anton Zeilinger -- Breakthroughs become part of the culture / Lisa Randall -- Space exploration, new and old / Robert Provine -- Pluto is a bump in the road / Nicholas A. Christakis -- Pluto now, then on to 550 AU / Gregory Benford -- Universe surprised us, close to home / Lawrence M. Krauss -- Progress in rocketry / George Dyson -- Space age takes off ... and returns to Earth again / Peter Schwartz -- How widely should we draw the circle? / Scott Aaronson -- A new algorithm showing what computers can and cannot do / John Naughton -- Designer humans / Mark Pagel -- Cellular alchemy / Roger Highfield -- A terrible beauty has been born / Randolph Nesse -- DNA programming / Paul Dolan -- Human chimeras / David Haig -- Race between genetic meltdown and germline engineering / John Tooby -- Ongoing battles with pathogens / Robert Kurzban -- Antibiotics are dead; long live antibiotics! / Aubrey De Grey -- The 6 billion letters of our genome / Eric Topol, M.D. -- Systems medicine / Stuart A. Kauffman -- Growing a brain in a dish / Simon Baron-Cohen -- Self-driving genes are coming / Stewart Brand -- Life diverging / Juan Enriquez -- Fundamentally newsworthy / Stuart Firestein -- Paleo-DNA and de-extinction / W. Tecumseh Fitch -- Wisdom race is heating up / Max Tegmark -- Tabby's star / Yuri Milner -- Extraterrestrials don't land on Earth! / David Christian -- We are not unique, but we are very much alone / Andrian Kreye -- Breakthrough listen / Martin J. Rees -- Life in the Milky Way / Mario Livio -- There is (already) life on Mars / Michael I. Norton -- Breathtaking future of a connected world / Chris J. Anderson -- Everything is computation / Joscha Bach -- Identifying the principles, perhaps the laws, of intelligence / Pamela McCorduck -- Neuro-news / Noga Arikha -- Microbial attractions / Pamela Rosenkranz -- Epidemic of absence / Matt Ridley -- Bugs R Us / Nina Jablonski -- Fecal microbiota transplants / Joichi Ito -- Hi, guys / Alan Alda -- Anti-democratic trend / Dirk Helbing -- Age of awareness / Quentin Hardy -- A large-scale personality research method / Nathalie Nahai -- Conquest of human scale / Charles Seife -- Big data and better government / Margaret Levi -- This is the science-news essay you want to read / Marti Hearst -- Those annoying ads? The harbinger of good things to come / Roger Schank -- Biology versus choice / Thalia Wheatley -- How to be bad together / Gloria Origgi -- Psychology's crisis / Ellen Winner -- Truthiness of scientific research / Judith Rich Harris -- Blinded by data / Gary Klein -- Epistemic trainwreck of soft-side psychology / Philip Tetlock -- Science itself / Paul Bloom -- A compelling explanation for scientific misconduct / Leo M. Chalupa -- Sub-prime science / Nicholas Humphrey -- Infancy of meta-science / Jonathan Schooler -- Disillusion and the disaffection of poor white Americans / Richard Nisbett -- Inequality of wealth and income : a runaway process / S. Abbas Raza -- Age of visible thought / Peter Gabriel -- Our changing conceptions of what it means to be human / Howard Gardner -- Complete head transplants / Kai Krause -- En-gendering of genius / Rebecca Newberger Goldstein -- Diversity in science / Gino Segre -- Democratization of science / Michale Shermer -- News about science news / Sheizaf Rafaeli -- Broadening scope of science / Tania Lombrozo -- Q-bio / Nigel Goldenfeld -- Mathematics and reality / Clifford Pickover -- Synthetic learning / Kevin Kelly -- A genuine science of learning / Keith Devlin -- Bayesian program learning / John C. Mather -- FSM (feces-standard money) / Jaeweon Cho -- Ironies of higher arithmetic / Jim Holt -- Broke people ignoring $20 bills on the sidewalk / Michael Vassar -- We fear the wrong things / David G. Myers -- Living in terror of terrorism / Gerd Gigerenzer -- State of the world isn't as bad as you think / Steven R. Quartz -- Healthy diet u-turn / Ed Regis -- Fatty foods are good for your health / Peter Turchin -- Partisan hostility / Jonathan Haidt -- Cognitive science transforms moral philosophy / Stephen P. Stich -- Morality is made of meat / Oliver Scott Curry -- People kill because it's the right thing to do / James J. O'Donnell -- Interdisciplinary social research / Ziyad Marar -- Intellectual convergence / Adam Alter -- Weapons technology powered human evolution / Timothy Taylor -- Immune system : a grand unifying theory for biomedical research / Buddhini Samarasinghe -- Harnessing our natural defenses against cancer / Michael E. Hochberg -- Cancer drugs for brain diseases / Todd C. Sacktor -- Most powerful carcinogen may be entropy / George Johnson -- Decline of cancer / A.C. Grayling -- Mating crisis among educated women / David M. Buss -- Most important x...y...z... / Jared Diamond -- Mother of all addictions / Helen Fisher -- Trust metric / John Gottman -- Optogenetics / Christian Keysers -- State of brain science / Terrence J. Sejnowski -- Nootropic neural news / George Church -- Memory is a labile fabrication / Kate Jeffery -- Continually new you / Stephen M. Kosslyn -- Toddlers can master computers / Alison Gopnik -- Predictive brain / Lisa Feldman Barrett -- A new imaging tool / Alun Anderson -- Sensors : accelerating the pace of scientific discovery / Paul Saffo -- 3D printing in the medical field / Syed Tasnim Raza -- Deep science / Brian Knutson -- A world that counts / Alex (Sandy) Pentland -- Programming reality / Neil Gershenfeld -- Pointing is a prerequisite for language / N.J. Enfield -- Macro-criminal networks / Eduardo Salcedo-Albarán -- Virtual reality goes mainstream / Thomas Metzinger -- Twin tides of change / Timo Hannay -- Imaging deep learning / Andy Clark -- Neural net reloaded / Jamshed Bharucha -- Differentiable programming / David Dalrymple -- Deep learning, semantics, and society / Steve Omohundro -- Seeing our cyborg selves / Thomas A. Bass -- Rejection of science itself / Douglas Rushkoff -- Re-thinking artificial intelligence / Rodney A. Brooks -- I, for one / Joshua Bongard -- Data sets over algorithms / Alexander Wissner-Gross -- Biological models of mental illness reflect essentialist biases / Bruce Hood -- Neuroprediction / Abigail Marsh -- Thin line between mental illness and mental health / Joel Gold -- Theodiversity / Ara Norenzayan -- Modernity is winning / Gregory Paul -- Religious morality is mostly below the belt / Michael McCullough -- A science of the consequences / Luca De Biase -- Creation of a "no ethnic majority" society / David Berreby -- Interconnectedness / Irene Pepperberg -- Early life adversity and collective outcomes / Linda Wilbrecht -- We're still behind / Mary Catherine Bateson -- Neural hacking, handprints, and the empathy deficit / Daniel Goleman -- Send in the drones / Diana Reiss -- That dress / Susan Blackmore -- Anthropic capitalism and the new gimmick economy / Eric R. Weinstein -- Origin of Europeans / Gregory Cochran -- Platinum rule : dense, heavy, but worth it / Hazel Rose Markus -- Adjusting to feathered dinosaurs / John McWhorter -- People are animals / Laura Betzig -- Longevity of news / Diana Deutsch -- Weather prediction has quietly gotten better / Samuel Arbesman -- Word : first as art, then as science / Brian Christian -- Convergence of images and technology / Victoria Wyatt -- Mindful meeting of minds / Christine Finn -- Carpe diem / Ernst Pöppel -- Linking the levels of human variation / Elizabeth Wrigley-Field -- Challenging the value of a university education / Steve Fuller -- Hermeneutic hypercycle / Maximilian Schich -- Rethinking authority with the blockchain crypto enlightenment / Melanie Swan -- Envoi : we may all die horribly / Robert Sapolsky. |
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