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Know This: Today's Most Interesting and Important Scientific Ideas, Discoveries, and Developments (Edge Question Series)
New York, NY, USA: HarperCollins (2017)
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Scientific developments radically change and enlighten our understanding of the world—whether it's advances in technology and medical research or the latest revelations of neuroscience, psychology, physics, economics, anthropology, climatology, or genetics. And yet amid the flood of information today, it's often difficult to recognize the truly revolutionary ideas that will have lasting impact. In the spirit of identifying the most significant new theories and discoveries, John Brockman, publisher of Edge ("The world's smartest website" —THE GUARDIAN), asked 198 of the finest minds What do you consider the most interesting recent scientific news? What makes it important?Author's Profile
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