This Explains Everything, John Brockman
This Explains Everything, John Brockman
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This Explains Everything
Deep, Beautiful, and Elegant Theories of How the World Works

Author: John Brockman

Narrator: Michelle Ford, Antony Ferguson, Ann Marie Lee, Peter Berkrot

Unabridged: 12 hr 4 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 02/05/2014

Categories: Nonfiction, Science

Synopsis

In This Explains Everything, John Brockman, founder and publisher of Edge.org, asked experts in numerous fields and disciplines to come up with their favorite explanations for everyday occurrences. Why do we recognize patterns? Is there such a thing as positive stress? Are we genetically programmed to be in conflict with each other? Those are just some of the 150 questions that the world's best scientific minds answer with elegant simplicity.

With contributions from Jared Diamond, Richard Dawkins, Nassim Taleb, Brian Eno, Steven Pinker, and more, everything is explained in fun, uncomplicated terms that make the most complex concepts easy to comprehend.

About John Brockman

The founder and publisher of the influential online science salon Edge.org, John Brockman is the editor of This Will Make You Smarter, What We Believe but Cannot Prove, What Is Your Dangerous Idea?, and other volumes. He is also the CEO of the literary agency Brockman, Inc. John lives in New York City.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Marc

I’m aware you can give a lot of criticism on this kind of Edge-books (there is too much/too little in it, some contributions are substandard, etc ...) but I have read this with much enjoyment and fascination: not because it is coherent, or gives a complete overview of the current state of science in......more

Goodreads review by Sense

For an historian it is not easy to get a lot out of these kinds of books, that is: at first glance it isn’t. In this book almost all of the 156 contributors are positive scientists, and in the human sciences psychologists, cognitivists and philosophers are in the majority. There are only 2 "labeled"......more

Goodreads review by Tom

A bathroom reader for smarty-pants. A lot of insightful commentary from the contemporary intelligentsia, but things don't go deeply into detail. It's nice to read one or two to get your brain juice flowing, but this is not a book to be read in extended sittings. 3.5 stars out of 5.......more

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