Este libro fascinante, compilado por John Brockman, reúne 25 ensayos originales realizados por los pensadores mundiales más destacados acerca de las fronteras de campos científicos como la física, la química, la biolog&i...
John Brockman, prestigioso promotor de una nueva concepción de la ciencia, plantea en esta obra que la vanguardia del pensamiento moderno está protagonizada por un grupo de intelectuales que han sabido combinar ciencias y letras, dos esferas...
Brilliant but overlooked ideas you must know, as revealed by Steven Pinker, Jared Diamond, Lisa Randall, Richard Thaler, Carlo Rovelli, Richard Dawkins, Helen Fisher, Ian McEwen, and more of todayâs most innovative minds â&ce...
The newest addition to John Brockman?s Edge.org series explores life itself, bringing together the world?s leading biologists, geneticists, and evolutionary theorists?including Richard Dawkins, Edward O. Wilson, J. Craig Venter, and Freeman Dyson. Scienti...
From the bestselling authors of Thinking, Fast and Slow; The Black Swan; and Stumbling on Happiness comes a cutting-edge exploration of the mysteries of rational thought, decision-making, intuition, morality, willpower, problem-solving, prediction, foreca...
Thirty-five years ago, C. P. Snow, in a now famous essay, wrote about the polarization of the "two cultures" -- literary intellectuals on the one hand, and scientists on the other. Although he hoped for the emergence of a "third culture"...