This Will Make You Smarter: New Scientific Concepts to Improve Your Thinking (Edge Question Series)
Even geniuses change their minds sometimes.
Edge (www.edge.org), the influential online intellectual salon, recently asked 150 high-powered thinkers to discuss their most telling missteps and reconsiderations: What have you changed your mind about? The answers are brilliant, eye-opening, fascinating, sometimes shocking, and certain to kick-start countless passionate debates.
Steven Pinker on the future of human evolution • Richard Dawkins on the mysteries of courtship • SAM HARRIS on the indifference of Mother Nature • Nassim Nicholas Taleb on the irrelevance of probability • Chris Anderson on the reality of global warming • Alan Alda on the existence of God • Ray Kurzweil on the possibility of extraterrestrial life • Brian Eno on what it means to be a "revolutionary" • Helen Fisher on love, fidelity, and the viability of marriage • Irene Pepperberg on learning from parrots . . . and many others.
| Country | USA |
| Brand | Harper Perennial |
| Manufacturer | Harper Perennial |
| Binding | Paperback |
| ItemPartNumber | black & white illustrations |
| Model | black & white illustrations |
| ReleaseDate | 2014-05-20 |
| UnitCount | 1 |
| EANs | 9780061686542 |
