Bibliograph

This idea is brilliant, lost, overlooked, and underappreciated scientific concepts everyone should know, edited by John Brockman

Type

Label

This idea is brilliant, lost, overlooked, and underappreciated scientific concepts everyone should know, edited by John Brockman

Language

eng

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

This idea is brilliant

Oclc number

1019711625

Responsibility statement

edited by John Brockman

Sub title

lost, overlooked, and underappreciated scientific concepts everyone should know

Summary

Presents essays responding to a question about what scientific term or concept ought to be more widely known, written by such authors as Jared Diamond, Richard Thaler, Richard Dawkins, Lisa Randall, Steven Pinker, and Carlo Rovelli

Table Of Contents

Longevity factor / Yuri Milner -- Illusion of explanatory depth / Adam Waytz -- Synaptic transfer / David Rowan -- Genetic book of the dead / Richard Dawkins -- Exaptation / W. Tecumseh Fitch -- Virial theorem / Seth Lloyd -- Second law of thermodynamics / Steven Pinker -- Emergence / Antony Garrett Lisi -- Natural selection / Jonathan B Losos -- DNA / George M Church

Target audience

adult

Classification

Contributor