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

By John Brockman

Book information

Publisher
Harper Perennial
Year
2013
ISBN
0062230174, 9780062230171
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
1 MB (1239978 bytes)
Pages
432\0
Time added
2013-12-23 09:47:16

Description

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.

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