This Idea Is Brilliant: Lost, Overlooked, And Underappreciated Scientific Concepts Everyone Should Know
- Autor: John Brockman
- Narrador: Charles Constant
- Editor: HarperCollins USA
- Duración: 16:10:16
Sinopsis
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
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001 This Idea is Brilliant
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002 Preface
Duración: 03min -
003 The Longevity Factor
Duración: 05min -
004 The Illusion of Explanatory Depth
Duración: 04min -
005 Synaptic Transfer
Duración: 04min -
006 The Genetic Book of the Dead
Duración: 05min -
007 Exaptation
Duración: 06min -
008 The Virial Theorem
Duración: 06min -
009 The Second Law of Thermodynamics
Duración: 06min -
010 Emergence
Duración: 05min -
011 Natural Selection
Duración: 05min -
012 DNA
Duración: 03min -
013 Genetic Rescue
Duración: 04min -
014 Positive Feedbacks in Climate Change
Duración: 07min -
015 The Anthropocene
Duración: 03min -
016 The Noosphere
Duración: 05min -
017 The Gaia Hypothesis
Duración: 04min -
018 Ocean Acidification
Duración: 05min -
019 Intertemporal Choice
Duración: 06min -
020 Future Self-Continuity
Duración: 05min