This Idea Is Brilliant: Lost, Overlooked, And Underappreciated Scientific Concepts Everyone Should Know

  • Autor: John Brockman
  • Narrador: Charles Constant
  • Editor: HarperCollins USA
  • Duración: 16:10:16
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Sinopsis

The latest volume in the bestselling series from Edge.org—dubbed “the world’s smartest website” by The Guardian—brings together 206 of the world’s most innovative thinkers to discuss the scientific concepts that everyone should know.

As science informs public policy, decision making, and so many aspects of our everyday lives, a scientifically literate society is crucial. In that spirit, Edge.org publisher and author of Know This, John Brockman, asks 206 of the world’s most brilliant minds the 2017 Edge Question: What scientific term or concept ought to be more widely known?

Contributors include: author of The God Delusion RICHARD DAWKINS on using animals’ “Genetic Book of the Dead” to reconstruct ecological history; MacArthur Fellow REBECCA NEWBERGER GOLDSTEIN on “scientific realism,” the idea that scientific theories explain phenomena beyond what we can see and touch; author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics CARLO ROVELLI on “relative information,” which governs the physical world around us; theoretical physicist LAWRENCE M. KRAUSS on the hidden blessings of “uncertainty”; cognitive scientist and author of The Language Instinct STEVEN PINKER on “The Second Law of Thermodynamics”; biogerontologist AUBREY DE GREY on why “maladaptive traits” have been conserved evolutionarily; musician BRIAN ENO on “confirmation bias” in the internet age; Man Booker-winning author of Atonement IAN MCEWAN on the “Navier-Stokes Equations,” which govern everything from weather prediction to aircraft design and blood flow; plus pieces from RICHARD THALER, JARED DIAMOND, NICHOLAS CARR, JANNA LEVIN, LISA RANDALL, KEVIN KELLY, DANIEL COLEMAN, FRANK WILCZEK, RORY SUTHERLAND, NINA JABLONSKI, MARTIN REES, ALISON GOPNIK, and many, many others.

Capítulos

  • 121 The Navier-Stokes Equations

    Duración: 01min
  • 122 The Scientist

    Duración: 05min
  • 123 Bayes' Theorem

    Duración: 04min
  • 124 Uncertainty

    Duración: 06min
  • 125 Equipoise

    Duración: 04min
  • 126 Ansatz

    Duración: 03min
  • 127 On the Average

    Duración: 06min
  • 128 Blind Analysis

    Duración: 03min
  • 129 Homophily

    Duración: 03min
  • 130 Social Identity

    Duración: 04min
  • 131 Reflective Beliefs

    Duración: 05min
  • 132 Alloparenting

    Duración: 04min
  • 133 Cumulative Culture

    Duración: 06min
  • 134 Life History

    Duración: 05min
  • 135 Haldane's Rule of the Right Size

    Duración: 04min
  • 136 Phenotypic Plasticity

    Duración: 06min
  • 137 Sleeper Sensitive Periods

    Duración: 06min
  • 138 Zone of Proximal Development

    Duración: 03min
  • 139 Length Biased Sampling

    Duración: 07min
  • 140 Construal

    Duración: 06min
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