Know this : today's most interesting and important scientific ideas, discoveries, and developments / edited by John Brockman.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Brockman, John, 1941- editor.

Edge.org.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Discoveries in science--Popular works.

Discoveries in science.

Science--Forecasting.

Science.

Genre:

Popular works.

Essays.

Physical Description:

xxviii, 573 pages ; 21 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Harper Perennial, [2017]

Summary:

"The latest volume in the bestselling series from Edge.org-- dubbed 'the world's smartest website' by The Guardian-- brings together 175 of the world's most innovative and brilliant thinkers to discuss recent scientific breakthroughs that will shape the future. Scientific developments radically alter our understanding of the world. Whether it's technology, climate change, health research, or the latest revelations of neuroscience, physics, or psychology, science has, as Edge editor John Brockman says, 'become a big story, if not the big story.' In that spirit, this new addition to Edge.org's fascinating series asks a powerful and provocative question: What do you consider the most interesting and important recent scientific news?"--Amazon.com.

Contents:

The Edge question / John Brockman

Human progress quantified / Steven Pinker

Doing more with less / Freeman Dyson

The "specialness" of humanity / Kurt Gray

J.M. Bergoglio's 2015 review of global ecology / Stuart Pimm

Leaking, thinning, sliding ice / Laurence C. Smith

Glaciers / Robert Trivers

Our collective blind spot / Jennifer Jacquet

Three de-carbonizing scientific breakthroughs / Bill Joy

Juice / James Croak

A call to action / Hans Ulrich Obrist

A bridge between the 21st and 22nd century / Koo Jeong-A

The greatest environmental disaster / Richard Muller

Technobiophilic cities / Scott Sampson

LENR could supplant fossil fuels / Carl Page

Emotions influence environmental well-being / June Gruber

Global warming redux: a serious challenge to our species / Milford H. Wolpoff

Blue marble 2.0 / Giulio Boccaletti

High-tech stone age / Tor Nørretranders

The dematerialization of consumption / Rory Sutherland

Science made this possible / Bruce Parker

The brain is a strange planet / Dustin Yellin

The abdication of spacetime / Donald D. Hoffman

The news that wasn't there / Antony Garrett Lisi

No news is astounding news / Lee Smolin

One hundred years of failure / Seth Lloyd

Hope beyond the Higgs Boson / Sarah Demers

An unexpected, haunting signal / Gerald Holton

News about how the physical world operates / Leonard Susskind

Unpublicized implications of Hawking black-hole evaporation / Frank Tipler

The energy of nothing / Andrei Linde

The big bang cannot be what we thought it was / Paul J. Steinhardt

Anomalies / Stephon H. Alexander

Looking where the light isn't / Brian G. Keating

Simplicity / Neil Turok.

The LHC is working at full energy / Gordon Kane

New probes of Einstein's curved spacetime

and beyond / Steve Giddings

Supermassive black holes / Jeremy Bernstein

Gigantic black holes at the center of galaxies / Carlo Rovelli

The universe is infinite / Rudy Rucker

Advance LIGO and advanced Virgo / Paul Davies

The news is not the news / Frank Wilczek

We know all the particles and forces we're made of / Sean Carroll

Computational complexity and the nature of reality / Amanda Gefter

Einstein was wrong / Hans Halvorson

Replacing magic with mechanism? / Ross Anderson

Quantum entanglement is independent of space and time / Anton Zeilinger

Breakthroughs become part of the culture / Lisa Randall

Space exploration, new and old / Robert Provine

Pluto is a bump in the road / Nicholas A. Christakis

Pluto now, then on to 550 AU / Gregory Benford

The universe surprised us, close to home / Lawrence M. Krauss

Progress in rocketry / George Dyson

The space age takes off ... and returns to Earth again / Peter Schwartz

How widely should we draw the circle? / Scott Aaronson

A new algorithm showing what computers can and cannot do / John Naughton

Designer humans / Mark Pagel

Cellular alchemy / Roger Highfield

A terrible beauty has been born / Randolph Nesse

DNA programming / Paul Dolan.

Human chimeras / David Haig

The race between genetic meltdown and germline engineering / John Tooby

The ongoing battles with pathogens / Robert Kurzban

Antibiotics are dead; long live antibiotics! / Aubrey De Grey

The 6 billion letters of our genome / Eric Topol, M.D.

Systems medicine / Stuart A. Kauffman

Growing a brain in a dish / Simon Baron-Cohen

Self-driving genes are coming / Stewart Brand

Life diverging / Juan Enriquez

Fundamentally newsworthy / Stuart Firestein

Paleo-DNA and de-extinction / W. Tecumseh Fitch

The wisdom race is heating up / Max Tegmark

Tabby's star / Yuri Milner

Extraterrestrials don't land on Earth! / David Christian

We are not unique, but we are very much alone / Andrian Kreye

Breakthrough listen / Martin J. Rees

Life in the Milky Way / Mario Livio

There is (already) life on Mars / Michael I. Norton

The breathtaking future of a connected world / Chris J. Anderson

Everything is computation / Joscha Bach

Identifying the principles, perhaps the laws, of intelligence / Pamela McCorduck

Neuro-news / Noga Arikha

Microbial attractions / Pamela Rosenkranz

The epidemic of absence / Matt Ridley

Bugs R Us / Nina Jablonski

Fecal microbiota transplants / Joichi Ito

Hi, guys / Alan Alda

The anti-democratic trend / Dirk Helbing

The age of awareness / Quentin Hardy

A large-scale personality research method / Nathalie Nahai

The conquest of human scale / Charles Seife

Big data and better government / Margaret Levi

This is the science-news essay you want to read / Marti Hearst

Those annoying ads? The harbinger of good things to come / Roger Schank

Biology versus choice / Thalia Wheatley

How to be bad together / Gloria Origgi

Psychology's crisis / Ellen Winner

The truthiness of scientific research / Judith Rich Harris.

Blinded by data / Gary Klein

The epistemic trainwreck of soft-side psychology / Philip Tetlock

Science itself / Paul Bloom

a compelling explanation for scientific misconduct / Leo M. Chalupa

Sub-prime science / Nicholas Humphrey

The infancy of meta-science / Jonathan Schooler

The disillusion and the disaffection of poor white Americans / Richard Nisbett

Inequality of wealth and income: a runaway process / S. Abbas Raza

The age of visible thought / Peter Gabriel

Our changing conceptions of what it means to be human / Howard Gardner

Complete head transplants / Kai Krause

The en-gendering of genius / Rebecca Newberger Goldstein

Diversity in science / Gino Segre

The democratization of science / Michale Shermer

News about science news / Sheizaf Rafaeli

The broadening scope of science / Tania Lombrozo

Q-bio / Nigel Goldenfeld

Mathematics and reality / Clifford Pickover

Synthetic learning / Kevin Kelly

A genuine science of learning / Keith Devlin

Bayesian program learning / John C. Mather

FSM (feces-standard money) / Jaeweon Cho

The ironies of higher arithmetic / Jim Holt

Broke people ignoring $20 bills on the sidewalk / Michael Vassar

We fear the wrong things / David G. Myers

Living in terror of terrorism / Gerd Gigerenzer

The state of the world isn't as bad as you think / Steven R. Quartz

The healthy diet u-turn / Ed Regis

Fatty foods are good for your health / Peter Turchin

Partisan hostility / Jonathan Haidt

Cognitive science transforms moral philosophy / Stephen P. Stich

Morality is made of meat / Oliver Scott Curry

People kill because it's the right thing to do / James J. O'Donnell

Interdisciplinary social research / Ziyad Marar

Intellectual convergence / Adam Alter

Weapons technology powered human evolution / Timothy Taylor

The immune system: a grand unifying theory for biomedical research / Buddhini Samarasinghe

Harnessing our natural defenses against cancer / Michael E. Hochberg.

Cancer drugs for brain diseases / Todd C. Sacktor

The most powerful carcinogen may be entropy / George John

The decline of cancer / A.C. Grayling

The mating crisis among educated women / David M. Buss

The most important x ... y ... z ... / Jared Diamond

The mother of all addictions / Helen Fisher

The trust metric / John Gottman

Optogenetics / Christian Keysers

Nootropic neural news / George Church

Memory is a labile fabrication / Kate Jeffery

The continually new you / Stephen M. Kosslyn

Toddlers can master computers / Alison Gopnik

The predictive brain / Lisa Feldman Barrett

A new imaging tool / Alun Anderson

Sensors: accelerating the pace of scientific discovery / Paul Saffo

3D printing in the medical field / Syed Tasnim Raza

Deep science / Brian Knutson

A world that counts / Alex (Sandy) Pentland

Programming reality / Neil Gershenfeld

Pointing is a prerequisite for language / N.J. Enfield

Macro-criminal networks / Eduardo Salcedo-Albarán

Virtual reality goes mainstream / Thomas Metzinger

The twin tides of change / Timo Hannay

Imaging deep learning / Andy Clark

The neural net reloaded / Jamshed Bharucha

Differentiable programming / David Dalrymple

Deep learning, semantics, and society / Steve Omohundro

Seeing our cyborg selves / Thomas A. Bass

The rejection of science itself / Douglas Rushkoff

Re-thinking artificial intelligence / Rodney A. Brooks

I, for one / Joshua Bongard

Data sets over algorithms / Alexander Wissner-Gross

Biological methods of mental illness reflect essentialist biases / Bruce Hood

Neuroprediction / Abigail Marsh

The thin line between mental illness and mental health / Joel Gold

Theodiversity / Ara Norenzayan

Modernity is winning / Gregory Paul

Religious morality is mostly below the belt / Michael McCullough.

A science of the consequences / Luca De Biase

Creation of a "no ethnic majority" society / David Berreby

Interconnectedness / Irene Pepperberg

Early life adversity and collective outcomes / Linda Wilbrecht

We're still behind / Mary Catherine Bateson

Neural hacking, handprints, and the empathy deficit / Daniel Goleman

Send in the drones / Diana Reiss

That dress / Susan Blackmore

Anthropic capitalism and the new gimmick economy / Eric R. Weinstein

The origin of Europeans / Gregory Cochran

The platinum rule: dense, heavy, but worth it / Hazel Rose Markus

Adjusting to feathered dinosaurs / John McWhorter

People are animals / Laura Betzig

The longevity of news / Diana Deutsch

Weather prediction has quietly gotten better / Samuel Arbesman

The word: first as art, then as science / Brian Christian

The convergence of images and technology / Victoria Wyatt

The mindful meeting of minds / Christine Finn

Carpe diem / Ernst Pöppel

Linking the levels of human variation / Elizabeth Wrigley-Field

Challenging the value of a university education / Steve Fuller

The hermeneutic hypercycle / Maximilian Schich

Rethinking authority with the blockchain crypto enlightenment / Melanie Swan

Envoi: we may all die horribly / Robert Sapolsky.

ISBN:

9780062562067

0062562061

OCLC:

964787935