This idea is brilliant : lost, overlooked, and underappreciated scientific concepts everyone should know
2018
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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 Roveri.
Main title:
This idea is brilliant : lost, overlooked, and underappreciated scientific concepts everyone should know / edited by John Brockman.
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Imprint:
New York : Harper Perennial, 2018
Collation:
515 pages ; 21 cm.
Notes:
Includes index.
Contents:
Machine generated contents note: The Longevity Factor / Yuri Milner -- The Illusion of Explanatory Depth / Adam Waytz -- Synaptic Transfer / David Rowan -- The Genetic Book of the Dead / Richard Dawkins -- Exaptation / W. Tecumseh Fitch -- The Virial Theorem / Seth Lloyd -- The Second Law of Thermodynamics / Steven Pinker -- Emergence / Antony Garrett Lisi -- Natural Selection / Jonathan B. Losos -- Dna / George Church -- Genetic Rescue / Stewart Brand -- Positive Feedbacks in Climate Change / Bruce Parker -- The Anthropocene / Jennifer Jacquet -- The Noosphere / David Christian -- The Gaia Hypothesis / Hans Ulrich Obrist -- Ocean Acidification / Laurence C. Smith -- Intertemporal Choice / David Desteno -- Future Self-Continuity / Brian Knutson -- The Climate System / Giulio Boccaletti -- The Universe of Algorithms / Terrence J. Sejnowski -- Babylonian Lottery / Coco Krumme -- Class Breaks / Bruce Schneier -- Recursion / Read Montague -- Referential Opacity / Nicholas Humphrey --Contents note continued: Adaptive Preference / Steve Fuller -- Antagonistic Pleiotropy / Gregory Benford -- Maladaptation / Aubrey De Grey -- Epigenetics / Leo M. Chalupa -- The Transcriptome / Andres Roemer -- Polygenic Scores / Robert Plomin -- Replicator Power / Susan Blackmore -- Fallibilism / Oliver Scott Curry -- Intellectual Honesty / Sam Harris -- Epsilon / Victoria Stodden -- Systemic Bias / Richard Muller -- Confirmation Bias / Brian Eno -- Negativity Bias / Michael Shermer -- Positive Illusions / Helen Fisher -- Russell Conjugation / Eric R. Weinstein -- Empathic Concern / Daniel Goleman -- Naive Realism / Matthew D. Lieberman -- Motivated Reasoning / David Pizarro -- Spatial Agency Bias / Simone Schnall -- Counting / Peter Norvig -- On Average / Kai Krause -- Number Sense / Keith Devlin -- Fermi Problems / Seth Shostak -- Exponential / Bruno Giussani -- Impedance Matching / W. Daniel Hillis -- Homeostasis / Martin Lercher --Contents note continued: Ashby's Law of Requisite Variety / John Naughton -- Variety / Lee Smolin -- Allostasis / Tor Nørretranders -- The Brainstem / Eduardo Salcedo-Albaran -- The Principle of Least Action / Janna Levin -- "The Big Bang" / John C. Mather -- Multiverse / Martin Rees -- Gravitational Radiation / Gino Segre -- The Non-Returnable Universe / Andrei Linde -- The Big Bounce / Paul J. Steinhardt -- Affordances / Daniel C. Dennett -- Enactivism / Amanda Gefter -- Paleoneurology / Juan Enriquez -- Complementarity / Frank Wilczek -- The Schnitt / Michael Gazzaniga -- Matter / Hans Halvorson -- Substrate Independence / Max Tegmark -- PT Symmetry / Daniel Hook -- Gravitational Lensing / Priyamvada Natarajan -- The Cosmological Constant, or Vacuum Energy / Raphael Bousso -- Invariance / Jim Holt -- Unruh Radiation / Jeremy Bernstein -- Determinism / Jerry A. Coyne -- Blind Analysis / Sarah Demers -- Homophily / Matthew O. Jackson -- Social Identity / Ziyad Marar --Contents note continued: Reflective Beliefs / Hugo Mercier -- Alloparenting / Abigail Marsh -- Cumulative Culture / Cristine H. Legare -- Life History / Alison Gopnik -- Haldane's Rule of the Right Size / Paul Saffo -- Phenotypic Plasticity / Nicolas Baumard -- Sleeper Sensitive Periods / Linda Wilbrecht -- Zone of Proximal Development / Athena Vouloumanos -- Length-Biased Sampling / Elizabeth Wrigley-Field -- Construal / Eldar Shafir -- Double Blind / Scott Draves -- The Law of Small Numbers / Adam Alter -- Commitment Devices / Michael I. Norton -- Illusory Conjunction / Diana Deutsch -- Bisociation / James Geary -- Conceptual Combination / Lisa Feldman Barrett -- Boolean Logic / Simon Baron-Cohen -- Neurodiversity / Joichi Ito -- Case-Based Reasoning / Roger Schank -- Media Richness / Nina Jablonski -- Peircean Semiotics / Daniel L. Everett -- Historiometrics / Howard Gardner -- Population Thinking / Dan Sperber -- Bounded Optimality / Tom Griffiths --Contents note continued: Satisficing / Michael Hochberg -- De-Anonymization / Ross Anderson -- Functional Equations / Jason Wilkes -- Decentering / Gary A. Klein -- Transfer Learning / Peter Lee -- The Symbol-Grounding Problem / Joshua Bongard -- Abstraction / Ursula Martin -- Networks / Sheizaf Rafaeli -- Morphogenetic Fields / Robert Provine -- Herd Immunity / Buddhini Samarasinghe -- Somatic Evolution / Itai Yanai -- Criticality / Cesar Hidalgo -- Information Pathology / Thomas A. Bass -- Iatrotropic Stimulus / Gerald Smallberg -- Mismatch Conditions / Daniel Lieberman -- Actionable Predictions / Roger Highfield -- The Texas Sharpshooter / Charles Seife -- Digital Representation / Jon Kleinberg -- Embodied Thinking / Barbara Tversky -- The Trolley Problem / Daniel Rockmore -- Mental Emulation / Stephen M. Kosslyn -- Prediction Error Minimization / Andy Clark -- Impossible / Chiara Marletto -- Optimization / Sabine Hossenfelder --Contents note continued: The Cancer Seed and Soil Hypothesis / Azra Raza -- Simplistic Disease Progression / Eric Topol -- Effect Modification / Beatrice Golomb -- The Power Law / Luca De Biase -- Type I and Type II Errors / Phil Rosenzweig -- The Ideal Free Distribution / Laura Betzig -- Chronobiology / Douglas Rushkoff -- Deliberate Ignorance / Gerd Gigerenzer -- The Need for Closure / Dylan Evans -- Polythetic Entitation / Timothy Taylor -- Quines / Samuel Arbesman -- Verbal Overshadowing / N.J. Enfield -- Liminality / Christine Finn -- Possibility Space / Ian Bogost -- Alternative Possibilities / Tania Lombrozo -- Indexical Information / Anthony Aguirre -- Emotion Contagion / June Grtjber -- Negative Evidence / Bart Kosko -- Emptiness / Jaeweon Cho -- Effect Size / Bruce Hood -- Surreal Numbers / Siobhan Roberts -- Standard Deviation / S. Abbas Raza -- The Breeder's Equation / Gregory Cochran -- Fixpoint / David Dalrymple -- Non-Ergodic / Stuart A. Kauffman --Contents note continued: Confusion / Maximilian Schich -- Coalitional Instincts / John Tooby -- The Scientific Method / Nigel Goldenfeld -- Humility / Barnaby Marsh.
ISBN:
9780062698216
Dewey class:
500
Language:
English
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BRN:
316138
More Information:
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sandringham Library | Adult Non Fiction - Science and Technology | 500 THI | Available |