This explains everything : deep, beautiful, and elegant theories of how the world works
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- ISBN: 9780062230171 (pbk.)
- ISBN: 0062230174 (pbk.)
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xx, 411 p. ; 21 cm - Edition: 1st ed.
- Publisher: New York : Harper Perennial, 2013.
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Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Evolution by means of natural selection / Susan Blackmore -- Life is a digital code / Matt Ridley -- Redundancy reduction and pattern recognition / Richard Dawkins -- The power of absurdity / Scott Atran -- How apparent finality can emerge / Carlo Rovelli -- The overdue demise of monogamy / Aubrey de Grey -- Boltzmann's explanation of the second law of thermodynamics / Leonard Susskind -- The dark matter of the mind / Joel Gold -- "There are more things in heaven and earth ... than are dreamt of in your philosophy." / Alda Alda -- An unresolved (and therefore unbeautiful) reaction to the edge question / Rebecca Newberger Goldstein -- Ptolemy's universe / James J. O'Donnell -- Quasi-elegance / Paul Steinhardt -- Mathematical object or natural object? / Shing-Tung Yau -- Simplicity / Frank Wilczek -- Simplicity itself / Thomas Metzinger -- Einstein explains why gravity is universal / Sean Carroll -- Evolutionary genetics and the conflicts of human social life / Steven Pinker -- The Faurie-Raymond hypothesis / Jonathan Gottschall -- Group polarization / David G. Myers -- The price equation / Armand Marie Leroi -- Unconscious inferences / Gerd Gigerenzer -- Snowflakes and the multiverse / Martin J. Rees -- Einstein's photons / Anton Seilinger -- Go small / Jeremy Bernstein -- Why is our world comprehensible? / Andrei Linde -- Alfvén's cosmos / George Dyson -- Our universe grew like a baby / Max Tegmark -- Kepler et al. and the nonexistent problem / Gino Segrè -- How incompatible worldviews can coexist / Freeman Dyson -- Impossible inexactness / Satyajit Das -- The next level of fundamental matter? / Haim Harari -- Observers observing / Robert Provine -- Genes, claustrum, and consciousness / V.S. Ramachandran -- Overlapping solutions / David M. Eagleman -- Our bounded rationality / Mahzarin Banaji -- Swarm intelligence / Robert Sapolsky -- Language and natural selection / Keith Devlin -- Commitment / Richard H. Thaler -- Tit for tat / Jennifer Jacquet -- True or false : beauty is truth / Judith Rich Harris -- Eratosthenes and the modular mind / Dan Sperber -- Dan Sperber's explanation of culture / Clay Shirky -- Metarepresentations explain human uniqueness / Hugo Mercier -- Why the human mind may seem to have an elegant explanation even if it doesn't / Nicholas Humphrey -- Fitness landscapes / Stewart Brand -- On oceans and airport security / Kevin P. Hand -- Plate tectonics elegantly validates continental drift / Paul Saffo -- Why some sea turtles migrate / Daniel C. Dennett -- A hot young earth : unquestionably beautiful and stunningly wrong / Carl Zimmer -- Sexual-conflict theory / David M. Buss -- The seeds of historical dominance / David Pizarro -- The importance of individuals / Howard Gardner -- Subjective environment / Andrian Kreye -- My favorite annoying elegant explanation : quantum theory / Raphael Bousso -- Einstein's revenge : the new geometric quantum / Eric R. Weinstein -- What time is it? / Dave Winer -- Realism and other metaphysical half-truths / Tania Lombrozo -- All we need is help / Seirian Sumner -- In the beginning is the theory / Helena Cronin -- Thompson on development / Paul Bloom -- How do you get from a lobster to a cat? / John McWhorter -- Germs cause disease / Gregory Cochran -- Dirt is matter out of place / Christine Finn -- Information is the resolution of uncertainty / Andrew Lih -- Everything is the way it is because it got that way / PZ Myers -- The idea of emergence / David Christian -- Frames of reference / Dimitar D. Sasselov -- Epigenetics-- the missing link / Helen Fisher -- Flocking behavior in birds / John Naughton -- Lemons are fast / Barry C. Smith -- Falling into place : entropy and the desperate ingenuity of life / John Tooby -- Why things happen / Peter Atkins -- Why we feel pressed for time / Elizabeth Dunn -- Why the sun still shines / Bart Kosko -- Boscovich's explanation of atomic forces / Charles Simonyi -- Birds are the direct descendants of dinosaurs / Gregory S. Paul -- Complexity out of simplicity / Bruce Hood -- Russell's theory of descriptions / A.C. Grayling -- Feynman's lifeguard / Timo Hannay -- The limits of intuition / Brian Eno -- The Higgs mechanism / Lisa Randall -- The mind thinks in embodied metaphors / Simone Schnall -- Metaphors are in the mind / Benjamin K. Bergen -- The pigeonhole principle / Jon Kleinberg -- Why programs have bugs / Marti Hearst -- Cagepatterns / Hans-Ulrich Obrist -- The true rotational symmetry of space / Seth LLoyd -- The pigeonhole principle revisited / Charles Seife -- Moore's Law / Rodney A. Brooks -- Cosmic complexity / John C. Mather -- The Gaia hypothesis / Scott Sampson -- The continuity equations / Laurence C. Smith -- Pascal's wager / Tim O'Reilly -- Evolutionarily stable strategies / S. Abbas Raza -- The Collingridge dilemma / Evgeny Morozov -- Trusting trust / Ernst Pöppel -- It just is? / Bruce Parker -- Subverting biology / Patrick Bateson -- Sex at your fingertips / Simon Baron-Cohen -- Why do movies move? / Alvy Ray Smith -- Would you like blue cheese with it? / Albert-László Barabási -- Mother nature's laws / Stuart Pimm -- The Oklo pyramid / Karl Sabbagh -- Kitty Genovese and group apathy / Adam Alter -- The wizard of I / Gerald Smallberg -- One coincidence; two déjà vus / Douglas Coupland -- Occam's razor / Katinka Matson -- Deep time / Alun Anderson -- Placing psychotherapy on a scientific basis : five easy lessons / Eric R. Kandel -- Transitional objects / Sherry Turkel -- Natural selection is simple but the systems it shapes are unimaginably complex / Randolph Nesse -- How to have a good idea / Marcel Kinsbourne -- Out of the mouths of babes / Nicholas A. Christakis -- The beauty in a sunrise / Philip Campbell -- The origin of money / Dylan Evans -- The precession of the simulacra / Douglas Rushkoff -- Time perspective theory / Philip Zimbardo -- Developmental timing explains the woes of adolescence / Alison Gopnik -- Implications of Ivan Pavlov's great discovery / Stephen M. Kossly and Robin Rosenberg -- Nature is cleverer than we are / Terrence J. Sejnowski -- Imposing randomness / Michael I. Norton -- The unification of electricity and magnetism / Lawrence M. Krauss -- Furry rubber bands / Neil Gershenfeld -- The principle of inertia / Lee Smolin -- Seeing is believing : from placebos to movies in our brain / Eric J. Topol -- The discontinuity of science and culture / Gerald Holton -- Hormesis is redundancy / Nassim Nicholas Taleb -- The beautiful law of unintended consequences / Robert Kurzban -- We are what we do / Timothy D. Wilson -- Personality differences : the importance of chance / Samuel Barondes -- Metabolic syndrome : cell energy adaptations in a toxic world? / Beatrice Golomb -- Death is the final repayment / Emanuel Derman -- Denumerable infinities and mental states / David Gelernter -- Inverse power laws / Rudy Rucker -- How the leopard got his spots / Samuel Arbesman -- The universal algorithm for human decision making / Stanislas Dehaene -- Lord Acton's dilemma / Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi -- Fact, fiction, and our probabilitic world / Victoria Stodden -- Elegance=complex / George Church -- Tinbergen's questions / Irene Pepperberg -- The universal turing machine / Gloria Origgi -- A matter of poetics / Richard Foreman -- The origins of biological electricity / Jared Diamond -- Why the Greeks painted red people on black pots / Timothy Taylor -- Language as an adaptive system / Andy Clark -- The mechanism of mediocrity / Nicholas J. Carr -- The principle of empiricism, or see for yourself / Michael Shermer -- We are stardust / Kevin Kelly. |
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