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"Today's most visionary thinkers reveal the cutting-edge scientific ideas and breakthroughs you must understand. Scientific developments radically change and enlighten our understanding of the world--whether it's advances in technology and medical research or the latest revelations of...
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Harper Perennial,
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| Publisher Address: | New York, NY : |
| Publication Dates: | [2017] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | First edition. |
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"Today's most visionary thinkers reveal the cutting-edge scientific ideas and breakthroughs you must understand. Scientific developments radically change and enlighten our understanding of the world--whether it's advances in technology and medical research or the latest revelations of neuroscience, psychology, physics, economics, anthropology, climatology, or genetics. And yet amid the flood of information today, it's often difficult to recognize the truly revolutionary ideas that will have lasting impact. In the spirit of identifying the most significant new theories and discoveries, John B |
| Carrier Form: | xxviii, 573 pages ; 21 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: |
9780062562067 0062562061 |
| Index Number: | Q180 |
| CLC: | G303 |
| Call Number: | G303/K731 |
| Contents: |
Preface : the edge question / Human progress quantified / Doing more with less / The "specialness" of humanity / J.M. Bergoglio's 2015 review of global ecology / Leaking, thinning, sliding ice / Glaciers / Our collective blind spot / Three de-carbonizing scientific breakthroughs / Juice / A call to action / A bridge between the 21st and 22nd century / The greatest en The LHC is working at full energy / New probes of Einstein's curved spacetime--and beyond? / Supermassive black holes / Gigantic black holes at the center of galaxies / The universe is infinite / Advanced LIGO and advanced Virgo / The news is not the news / We know all the particles and forces we're made of / Computational complexity and the nature of reality / Einstein was wrong / Replacing magic with mech Human chimeras / The race between genetic meltdown and germline engineering / The ongoing battles with pathogens / Antibiotics are dead; long live antibiotics! / The 6 billion letters of our genome / Systems medicine / Growing a brain in a dish / Self-driving genes are coming / Life diverging / Fundamentally newsworthy / Paleo-DNA and de-extinction / The wisdom race is he Blinded by data / The epistemic trainwreck of soft-side psychology / Science itself / A compelling explanation for scientific misconduct / Sub-prime science / The infancy of meta-science / The disillusion and the disaffection of poor white Americans / Inequality of wealth and income : a runaway process / The age of visible thought / Our changing conceptions of what it means to be human / Complete h Cancer drugs for brain diseases / The most powerful carcinogen may be entropy / The decline of cancer / The mating crisis among educated women / The most important x ... y ... z ... / The mother of all addictions / The trust metric / Optogenetics / The state of brain science / Nootropic neural news / Memory is a labile fabrication / The continually new you / A science of the consequences / Creation of a "no ethnic majority" society / Interconnectedness / Early life adversity and collective outcomes / We're still behind / Neural hacking, handprints, and the empathy deficit / Send in the drones / That dress / Anthropic capitalism and the new gimmick economy / The origin of Europeans / The platinum rule : dense, heavy, but worth it / |