This Will Make You Smarter: New Scientific Concepts to Improve Your Thinking by Brockman, John

This Will Make You Smarter: New Scientific Concepts to Improve Your Thinking

Featuring a foreword by DavidBrooks, ThisWill Make You Smarter presents brilliant--but accessible--ideasto expand every mind.Whatscientific concept would...
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This Will Make You Smarter: New Scientific Concepts to Improve Your Thinking by Brockman, John

This Will Make You Smarter: New Scientific Concepts to Improve Your Thinking

$23.98

This Will Make You Smarter: New Scientific Concepts to Improve Your Thinking

$23.98
Author: John Brockman
Format: Paperback
Language: English

Featuring a foreword by David
Brooks, This
Will Make You Smarter
presents brilliant--but accessible--ideas
to expand every mind.


What
scientific concept would improve everybody's cognitive toolkit?
This
is the question John Brockman, publisher of Edge.org, posed to the world's most
influential thinkers. Their visionary answers flow from the frontiers of
psychology, philosophy, economics, physics, sociology, and more. Surprising and
enlightening, these insights will revolutionize the way you think about
yourself and the world.

Contributors include:


  • Daniel Kahneman on the "focusing
    illusion"
  • Jonah Lehrer on controlling
    attention
  • Richard Dawkins on
    experimentation
  • Aubrey De Grey on conquering our
    fear of the unknown
  • Martin Seligman on the
    ingredients of well-being
  • Nicholas Carr on managing
    "cognitive load"
  • Steven Pinker on win-win
    negotiating
  • Daniel Goleman on understanding
    our connection to the natural world
  • Matt Ridley on tapping collective
    intelligence
  • Lisa Randall on effective theorizing
  • Brian Eno on "ecological vision"
  • J. Craig Venter on the multiple
    possible origins of life
  • Helen Fisher on temperament
  • Sam Harris on the flow of thought
  • Lawrence Krauss on living with
    uncertainty


Author: John Brockman
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: 02/14/2012
Pages: 448
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.72lbs
Size: 8.02h x 5.30w x 1.11d
ISBN: 9780062109392


Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 11/15/2011
Shelf Awareness 02/28/2012
New York Times Book Review 08/05/2012 pg. 16

About the Author
Brockman, John: -

The publisher of the online science salon Edge.org, John Brockman is the editor of Know This, This Idea Must Die, This Explains Everything, This Will Make You Smarter, and other volumes.

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