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This Idea Is Brilliant
This Idea Is Brilliant: Lost, Overlooked, and Underappreciated Scientific Concepts Everyone Should Know | John Brockman
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Brilliant but overlooked ideas you must know, as revealed by todays most innovative minds What scientific term or concept ought to be more widely known? That is the question John Brockman, publisher of the acclaimed science salon Edge.org (The worlds smartest websiteThe Guardian), presented to 205 of the worlds most influential thinkers from across the intellectual spectrumaward-winning physicists, economists, psychologists, philosophers, novelists, artists, and more. From the origins of the universe to the order of everyday life, This Idea Is Brilliant takes readers on a tour of the bold, exciting, and underappreciated scientific concepts that will enrich every mind. Pulitzer Prizewinning author of Guns, Germs, and Steel JARED DIAMOND on the lost brilliance of common sense * Oxford evolutionary biologist RICHARD DAWKINS on how The Genetic Book of the Dead could reconstruct ecological history * philosopher REBECCA NEWBERGER GOLDSTEIN on how to extend our grasp of reality beyond what we can see and touch * author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics CARLO ROVELLI on the interconnected fabric of information * Booker Prizewinning novelist IAN McEWAN on the Navier-Stokes equations, which govern everything from weather prediction to aircraft design and blood flow * cosmologist LAWRENCE M. KRAUSS on the hidden blessings of uncertainty * psychologist STEVEN PINKER on the fight against entropy * Nobel Prizewinning economist RICHARD THALER on the visionary power of the premortem * Grammy Awardwinning musician BRIAN ENO on confirmation bias in the Internet age * advertising guru RORY SUTHERLAND on the world-changing power of sex appeal * Harvard physicist LISA RANDALL on the power of the obvious * Wired founding editor KEVIN KELLY on how to optimize your chances at success * Nobel Prize winner FRANK WILCZEK on the creative potential of complementarity * Pulitzer Prizewinning New York Times reporter JOHN MARKOFF on the synthetic metamaterials that soon will transform industry and technology * euroscientist SAM HARRIS on the lost art of intellectual honesty *Berkeley psychologist ALISON GOPNIK on the role of life history in the human story, and many others.
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TimSpalding
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Didn‘t Darwin have other examples of phylogenic graphs—for example the tree of Indo-European languages? There must be other examples.

TimSpalding “Possibly the first non-Biblical use, and the first to show full family relationships rather than a purely patrilineal scheme, was that involving family trees of the classical gods in Boccaccio's Genealogia deorum gentilium ("On the Genealogy of the Gods of the Gentiles"), whose first version dates to 1360.” Boccaccio FTW! 6y
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TimSpalding
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Few famous Belgians...

BookBabe “...because everyone assumes you‘re French.” 😂🙌🏻 That‘s hilarious! 6y
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TimSpalding
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Social media needs more truthful low-cost signaling.

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Schnoebs
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Saw this on Pinterest. Why is this not standard practice?!?!?!?!?!?!?!? Would have been so helpful with my constant flipping back and forth in Six of Crows.

#MapsofLitsy #ideas #brilliant #pinterest #need #mpls #twincities

AshleyHoss820 This would‘ve saved me while reading A Song of Ice and Fire series! 😂 6y
GondorGirl That's amazing! 6y
InLibrisVeritas That's awesome!! I need this in all of my books! 6y
JMEdwards Yes!!!🤩 6y
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