This Idea Is Brilliant: Lost, Overlooked, and Underappreciated Scientific Concepts Everyone Should Know – An MIT Technology Review Best Book from Physicists, ... and Philosophers (Edge Question)

This Idea Is Brilliant: Lost, Overlooked, and Underappreciated Scientific Concepts Everyone Should Know – An MIT Technology Review Best Book from Physicists, ... and Philosophers (Edge Question)

<p><strong>Brilliant but overlooked ideas you must know, as revealed by today’s most innovative minds </strong></p><p><em>What scientific term or concept ought to be more widely known?</em> That is the question John Brockman, publisher of the acclaimed science salon Edge.org (“The world’s smartest website”—<em>The Guardian</em>), presented to 205 of the world’s most influential thinkers from across the intellectual spectrum—award-winning physicists, economists, psychologists, philosophers, novelists, artists, and more. From the origins of the universe to the order of everyday life, <em>This Idea Is Brilliant</em> takes readers on a tour of the bold, exciting, and underappreciated scientific concepts that will enrich every mind. </p><p>Pulitzer Prize–winning author of <em>Guns, Germs, and Steel</em> JARED DIAMOND on the lost brilliance of common sense * Oxford evolutionary biologist RICHARD DAWKINS on how <em>The Genetic Book of the Dead</em> could reconstruct ecological history * philosopher REBECCA NEWBERGER GOLDSTEIN on how to extend our grasp of reality beyond what we can see and touch * author of <em>Seven Brief Lessons on Physics</em> CARLO ROVELLI on the interconnected fabric of information * Booker Prize–winning novelist IAN McEWAN on the Navier-Stokes equations, which govern everything from weather prediction to aircraft design and blood flow * cosmologist LAWRENCE M. KRAUSS on the hidden blessings of uncertainty * psychologist STEVEN PINKER on the fight against entropy * Nobel Prize–winning economist RICHARD THALER on the visionary power of the “premortem” * Grammy Award–winning musician BRIAN ENO on confirmation bias in the Internet age * advertising guru RORY SUTHERLAND on the world-changing power of sex appeal * Harvard physicist LISA RANDALL on the power of the obvious * <em>Wired</em> founding editor KEVIN KELLY on how to optimize your chances at success * Nobel Prize winner FRANK WILCZEK on the creative potential of complementarity * Pulitzer Prize–winning <em>New York Times </em>reporter JOHN MARKOFF on the synthetic metamaterials that soon will transform industry and technology * euroscientist SAM HARRIS on the lost art of intellectual honesty *Berkeley psychologist ALISON GOPNIK on the role of life history in the human story, and many others.</p>