This idea is brilliant : lost, overlooked, and underappreciated scientific concepts everyone should know
(2018)
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
500/THIS
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York : Harper Perennial, [2018]
©2018
©2018
EDITION
First edition
DESCRIPTION
xxvi, 515 pages ; 21 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9780062698216, 0062698214
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Includes index
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
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