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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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xxviii, 573 pages ; 21 cm - Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York, NY : Harper Perennial, [2017]
- Copyright: ©2017
Contents / Notes
| 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 -- The 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 -- The dematerialization of consumption / Rory Sutherland -- Science made this possible / Bruce Parker -- The brain is a strange planet / Dustin Yellin -- The abdication of spacetime / Donald D. Hoffman -- The 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 -- The energy of nothing / Andrei Linde -- The 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 -- |
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