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1 online resource (416 pages) |
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Access limited to subscribing institutions. |
Summary |
Even geniuses change their minds sometimes. Edge (www.edge.org), the influential online intellectual salon, recently asked 150 high-powered thinkers to discuss their most telling missteps and reconsiderations: What have you changed your mind about? The answers are brilliant, eye-opening, fascinating, sometimes shocking, and certain to kick-start countless passionate debates. Steven Pinker on the future of human evolution • Richard Dawkins on the mysteries of courtship • SAM HARRIS on the indifference of Mother Nature • Nassim Nicholas Taleb on the irrelevance of probability • Chris Anderson on the reality of global warming • Alan Alda on the existence of God • Ray Kurzweil on the possibility of extraterrestrial life • Brian Eno on what it means to be a revolutionary" • Helen Fisher on love, fidelity, and the viability of marriage • Irene Pepperberg on learning from parrots ... and many others.". |
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Print version record. |
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SCIENCE / General.
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Cosmology.
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Science and the humanities.
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Discoveries in science -- Forecasting.
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Social prediction.
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Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Added Author |
Brockman, John, 1941- editor.
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Edge.org, issuing body.
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Print version: What have you changed your mind about?. New York : Harper Perennial, c2009. 9780061686542 (pbk.) (DLC)2009279363 |
ISBN |
9780061984907 (epub) |
Standard No. |
9780061984907 |
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