This Idea Is Brilliant: Lost, Overlooked, And Underappreciated Scientific Concepts Everyone Should Know

  • Autor: John Brockman
  • Narrador: Charles Constant
  • Editora: HarperCollins USA
  • Duração: 16:10:16
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Sinopse

The latest volume in the bestselling series from Edge.org—dubbed “the world’s smartest website” by The Guardian—brings together 206 of the world’s most innovative thinkers to discuss the scientific concepts that everyone should know.

As science informs public policy, decision making, and so many aspects of our everyday lives, a scientifically literate society is crucial. In that spirit, Edge.org publisher and author of Know This, John Brockman, asks 206 of the world’s most brilliant minds the 2017 Edge Question: What scientific term or concept ought to be more widely known?

Contributors include: author of The God Delusion RICHARD DAWKINS on using animals’ “Genetic Book of the Dead” to reconstruct ecological history; MacArthur Fellow REBECCA NEWBERGER GOLDSTEIN on “scientific realism,” the idea that scientific theories explain phenomena beyond what we can see and touch; author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics CARLO ROVELLI on “relative information,” which governs the physical world around us; theoretical physicist LAWRENCE M. KRAUSS on the hidden blessings of “uncertainty”; cognitive scientist and author of The Language Instinct STEVEN PINKER on “The Second Law of Thermodynamics”; biogerontologist AUBREY DE GREY on why “maladaptive traits” have been conserved evolutionarily; musician BRIAN ENO on “confirmation bias” in the internet age; Man Booker-winning author of Atonement IAN MCEWAN on the “Navier-Stokes Equations,” which govern everything from weather prediction to aircraft design and blood flow; plus pieces from RICHARD THALER, JARED DIAMOND, NICHOLAS CARR, JANNA LEVIN, LISA RANDALL, KEVIN KELLY, DANIEL COLEMAN, FRANK WILCZEK, RORY SUTHERLAND, NINA JABLONSKI, MARTIN REES, ALISON GOPNIK, and many, many others.

Capítulos

  • 161 Abstraction

    Duração: 04min
  • 162 Networks

    Duração: 04min
  • 163 Morphogenetic Fields

    Duração: 02min
  • 164 Herd Immunity

    Duração: 05min
  • 165 Somatic Evolution

    Duração: 03min
  • 166 Criticality

    Duração: 02min
  • 167 Information Pathology

    Duração: 04min
  • 168 Iatrotropic Stimulus

    Duração: 04min
  • 169 Mismatch Conditions

    Duração: 05min
  • 170 Actionable Predictions

    Duração: 04min
  • 171 The Texas Sharpshooter

    Duração: 03min
  • 172 Digital Representation

    Duração: 06min
  • 173 Embodied Thinking

    Duração: 03min
  • 174 The Trolley Problem

    Duração: 03min
  • 175 Mental Emulation

    Duração: 02min
  • 176 Prediction Error Minimization

    Duração: 03min
  • 177 Impossible

    Duração: 03min
  • 178 Optimization

    Duração: 05min
  • 179 The Cancer Seed and Soil Hypothesis

    Duração: 05min
  • 180 Simplistic Disease Progression

    Duração: 02min
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