What Have You Changed Your Mind About? - 9780061686542
Un libro in lingua di Brockman John (EDT) Eno Brian (INT) edito da Perennial, 2009
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Even geniuses change their minds sometimes.
Edge (www.edge.org), the influential online intellectual salon, recently asked 150 high-powered thinkers to discuss their most telling missteps and reconsiderations: What have you changed your mind about? The answers were brilliant, eye-opening, fascinating, sometimes shocking, and certain to kick-start countless passionate debates.
Read Steven Pinker on the future of human evolution ? Richard Dawkins on the mysteries of courtship ? Sam Harris on the indifference of Mother Nature ? Nassim Nicholas Taleb on the irrelevance of probability ? Chris Anderson on the reality of global warming ? Alan Alda on the existence of God ? Lisa Randall on the secrets of the Sun ? Ray Kurzweil on the possibility of extraterrestrial life ? Brian Eno on what it means to be a "revolutionary" ? Helen Fisher on love, fidelity, and the viability of marriage ? Irene Pepperberg on learning from parrots. . . and many others.
Informazioni bibliografiche
- Titolo del Libro in lingua: What Have You Changed Your Mind About?
- Sottotitolo: Today's Leading Minds Rethink Everything
- Lingua: English
- Autori : Brockman John (EDT) Eno Brian (INT)
- Editore: Perennial
- Collana: Perennial (Paperback)
- Data di Pubblicazione: 01 Gennaio '09
- Genere: SCIENCE
- Argomenti : Social prediction Discoveries in science Forecasting Science and the humanities
- Pagine: 387
- Dimensioni mm: 203 x 139 x 25
- ISBN-10: 0061686549
- EAN-13: 9780061686542