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(2018)
This idea is brilliant
lost, overlooked, and underappreciated scientific concepts everyone should know
First edition.
by John Brockman
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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.
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This idea is brilliant: lost, overlooked, and underappreciated scientific concepts everyone should know
2018, Harper Perennial
in English
- First edition.
0062698214 9780062698216
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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.
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