EDGE Books
EDGE Books
Know This: Today's Most Interesting and Important Scientific Ideas, Discoveries, and Developments
Edge Annual Question Series
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CONTENTS:?Pulitzer Prize-winning author of?Guns, Germs, and Steel?Jared Diamond?on the best way to understand complex problems * author of?Seven Brief Lessons on Physics?Carlo Rovelli?on the mystery of black holes * Harvard psychologist?Steven Pinker?on the quantification of human progress * TED Talks curator?Chris J. Anderson?on the growth of the global brain * Harvard cosmologist?Lisa Randall?on the true measure of breakthrough discoveries * Nobel Prize-winning physicist?Frank Wilczek?on why the twenty-first century will be shaped by our mastery of the laws of matter * philosopher?Rebecca Newberger Goldstein?on the underestimation of female genius * music legend?Peter Gabriel?on tearing down the barriers between imagination and reality * Princeton physicist?Freeman Dyson?on the surprising ability of small (and cheap) upstarts to compete with billion-dollar projects. Plus Nobel laureate?John C. Mather, Sun Microsystems cofounder?Bill Joy,?Wired?founding editor?Kevin Kelly, psychologist?Alison Gopnik,?Genome?author?Matt Ridley, Harvard geneticist?George Church,?Why Does the World Exist??author?Jim Holt, anthropologist?Helen Fisher, and more.?