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100 1 Brockman, John,|eauthor.
245 10 What Have You Changed Your Mind About? :|bToday's Leading
Minds Rethink Everything /|cJohn Brockman.
264 1 [Place of publication not identified] :|bHarperCollins,
|c[2009]
264 4 |c©2009
300 1 online resource (416 pages)
336 text|btxt|2rdacontent
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506 Access limited to subscribing institutions.
520 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.".
588 0 Print version record.
650 0 Cosmology.
650 0 Science and the humanities.
650 0 Discoveries in science|xForecasting.
650 0 Social prediction.
650 7 SCIENCE / General.|2bisacsh
655 0 Electronic books.
700 1 Brockman, John,|d1941-|eeditor.
710 2 Edge.org,|eissuing body.
776 08 |iPrint version:|tWhat have you changed your mind about?.
|dNew York : Harper Perennial, c2009.|z9780061686542
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