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Know this
today's most interesting and important scientific ideas, discoveries, and developments
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by John Brockman
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"The latest volume in the bestselling series from Edge.org-- dubbed 'the world's smartest website' by The Guardian-- brings together 175 of the world's most innovative and brilliant thinkers to discuss recent scientific breakthroughs that will shape the future. Scientific developments radically alter our understanding of the world. Whether it's technology, climate change, health research, or the latest revelations of neuroscience, physics, or psychology, science has, as Edge editor John Brockman says, 'become a big story, if not the big story.' In that spirit, this new addition to Edge.org's fascinating series asks a powerful and provocative question: What do you consider the most interesting and important recent scientific news?"--Amazon.com.
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Table of Contents
Preface : the edge question -- by John Brockman
Human progress quantified -- Steven Pinker
Doing more with less -- Freeman Dyson
The "specialness" of humanity -- Kurt Gray
J.M. Bergoglio's 2015 review of global ecology -- Stuart Pimm
Leaking, thinning, sliding ice -- Laurence C. Smith
Glaciers -- Robert Trivers
Our collective blind spot -- Jennifer Jacquet
Three de-carbonizing scientific breakthroughs -- Bill Joy
Juice -- James Croak
A call to action -- Hans Ulrich Obrist
A bridge between the 21st and 22nd century -- Koo Jeong-A
The greatest environmental disaster -- Richard Muller
Technobiophilic cities -- Scott Sampson
LENR could supplant fossil fuels -- Carl Page
Emotions influence environmental well-being -- June Gruber
Global warming redux : a serious challenge to our species -- Milford H. Wolpoff
Blue marble 2.0 -- Giulio Boccaletti
High-tech stone age -- Tor Nørretranders
The dematerialization of consumption -- Rory Sutherland
Science made this possible -- Bruce Parker
The brain is a strange planet -- Dustin Yellin
The abdication of spacetime -- Donald D. Hoffman
The news that wasn't there -- Antony Garrett Lisi
No news is astounding news -- Lee Smolin
One hundred years of failure -- Seth Lloyd
Hope beyond the Higgs Boson -- Sarah Demers
An unexpected, haunting signal -- Gerald Holton
News about how the physical world operates -- Leonard Susskind
Unpublicized implications of Hawking black-hole evaporation -- Frank Tipler
The energy of nothing -- Andrei Linde
The big bang cannot be what we thought it was -- Paul J. Steinhardt
Anomalies -- Stephon H. Alexander
Looking where the light isn't -- Brian G. Keating
Simplicity -- Neil Turok
The LHC is working at full energy -- Gordon Kane
New probes of Einstein's curved spacetime--and beyond? -- Steve Giddings
Supermassive black holes -- Jeremy Bernstein
Gigantic black holes at the center of galaxies -- Carlo Rovelli
The universe is infinite -- Rudy Rucker
Advanced LIGO and advanced Virgo -- Paul Davies
The news is not the news -- Frank Wilczek
We know all the particles and forces we're made of -- Sean Carroll
Computational complexity and the nature of reality -- Amanda Gefter
Einstein was wrong -- Hans Halvorson
Replacing magic with mechanism? -- Ross Anderson
Quantum entanglement is independent of space and time -- Anton Zeilinger
Breakthroughs become part of the culture -- Lisa Randall
Space exploration, new and old -- Robert Provine
Pluto is a bump in the road -- Nicholas A. Christakis
Pluto now, then on to 550 AU -- Gregory Benford
The universe surprised us, close to home -- Lawrence M. Krauss
Progress in rocketry -- George Dyson
The space age takes off ... and returns to Earth again -- Peter Schwartz
How widely should we draw the circle? -- Scott Aaronson
A new algorithm showing what computers can and cannot do -- John Naughton
Designer humans -- Mark Pagel
Cellular alchemy -- Roger Highfield
A terrible beauty has been born -- Randolph Nesse
DNA programming -- Paul Dolan
Human chimeras -- David Haig
The race between genetic meltdown and germline engineering -- John Tooby
The ongoing battles with pathogens -- Robert Kurzban
Antibiotics are dead; long live antibiotics! -- Aubrey De Grey
The 6 billion letters of our genome -- Eric Topol, M.D.
Systems medicine -- Stuart A. Kauffman
Growing a brain in a dish -- Simon Baron-Cohen
Self-driving genes are coming -- Stewart Brand
Life diverging -- Juan Enriquez
Fundamentally newsworthy -- Stuart Firestein
Paleo-DNA and de-extinction -- W. Tecumseh Fitch
The wisdom race is heating up -- Max Tegmark
Tabby's star -- Yuri Milner
Extraterrestrials don't land on Earth! -- David Christian
We are not unique, but we are very much alone -- Andrian Kreye
Breakthrough listen -- Martin J. Rees
Life in the Milky Way -- Mario Livio
There is (already) life on Mars -- Michael I. Norton
The breathtaking future of a connected world -- Chris J. Anderson
Everything is computation -- Joscha Bach
Identifying the principles, perhaps the laws, of intelligence -- Pamela McCorduck
Neuro-news -- Noga Arikha
Microbial attractions -- Pamela Rosenkranz
The epidemic of absence -- Matt Ridley
Bugs R Us -- Nina Jablonski
Fecal microbiota transplants -- Joichi Ito
Hi, guys -- Alan Alda
The anti-democratic trend -- Dirk Helbing
The age of awareness -- Quentin Hardy
A large-scale personality research method -- Nathalie Nahai
The conquest of human scale -- Charles Seife
Big data and better government -- Margaret Levi
This is the science-news essay you want to read -- Marti Hearst
Those annoying ads? The harbinger of good things to come -- Roger Schank
Biology versus choice -- Thalia Wheatley
How to be bad together -- Gloria Origgi
Psychology's crisis -- Ellen Winner
The truthiness of scientific research -- Judith Rich Harris
Blinded by data -- Gary Klein
The epistemic trainwreck of soft-side psychology -- Philip Tetlock
Science itself -- Paul Bloom
A compelling explanation for scientific misconduct -- Leo M. Chalupa
Sub-prime science -- Nicholas Humphrey
The infancy of meta-science -- Jonathan Schooler
The disillusion and the disaffection of poor white Americans -- Richard Nisbett
Inequality of wealth and income : a runaway process -- S. Abbas Raza
The age of visible thought -- Peter Gabriel
Our changing conceptions of what it means to be human -- Howard Gardner
Complete head transplants -- Kai Krause
The en-gendering of genius -- Rebecca Newberger Goldstein
Diversity in science -- Gino Segre
The democratization of science -- Michale Shermer
News about science news -- Sheizaf Rafaeli
The broadening scope of science -- Tania Lombrozo
Q-bio -- Nigel Goldenfeld
Mathematics and reality -- Clifford Pickover
Synthetic learning -- Kevin Kelly
A genuine science of learning -- Keith Devlin
Bayesian program learning -- John C. Mather
FSM (feces-standard money) -- Jaeweon Cho
The ironies of higher arithmetic -- Jim Holt
Broke people ignoring $20 bills on the sidewalk -- Michael Vassar
We fear the wrong things -- David G. Myers
Living in terror of terrorism -- Gerd Gigerenzer
The state of the world isn't as bad as you think -- Steven R. Quartz
The healthy diet u-turn -- Ed Regis
Fatty foods are good for your health -- Peter Turchin
Partisan hostility -- Jonathan Haidt
Cognitive science transforms moral philosophy -- Stephen P. Stich
Morality is made of meat -- Oliver Scott Curry
People kill because it's the right thing to do -- James J. O'Donnell
Interdisciplinary social research -- Ziyad Marar
Intellectual convergence -- Adam Alter
Weapons technology powered human evolution -- Timothy Taylor
The immune system : a grand unifying theory for biomedical research -- Buddhini Samarasinghe
Harnessing our natural defenses against cancer -- Michael E. Hochberg
Cancer drugs for brain diseases -- Todd C. Sacktor
The most powerful carcinogen may be entropy -- George Johnson
The decline of cancer -- A.C. Grayling
The mating crisis among educated women -- David M. Buss
The most important x ... y ... z ... -- Jared Diamond
The mother of all addictions -- Helen Fisher
The trust metric -- John Gottman
Optogenetics -- Christian Keysers
The state of brain science -- Terrence J. Sejnowski
Nootropic neural news -- George Church
Memory is a labile fabrication -- Kate Jeffery
The continually new you -- Stephen M. Kosslyn
Toddlers can master computers -- Alison Gopnik
The predictive brain -- Lisa Feldman Barrett
A new imaging tool -- Alun Anderson
Sensors : accelerating the pace of scientific discovery -- Paul Saffo
3D printing in the medical field -- Syed Tasnim Raza
Deep science -- Brian Knutson
A world that counts -- Alex (Sandy) Pentland
Programming reality -- Neil Gershenfeld
Pointing is a prerequisite for language -- N.J. Enfield
Macro-criminal networks -- Eduardo Salcedo-Albarán
Virtual reality goes mainstream -- Thomas Metzinger
The twin tides of change -- Timo Hannay
Imaging deep learning -- Andy Clark
The neural net reloaded -- Jamshed Bharucha
Differentiable programming -- David Dalrymple
Deep learning, semantics, and society -- Steve Omohundro
Seeing our cyborg selves -- Thomas A. Bass
The rejection of science itself -- Douglas Rushkoff
Re-thinking artificial intelligence -- Rodney A. Brooks
I, for one -- Joshua Bongard
Data sets over algorithms -- Alexander Wissner-Gross
Biological models of mental illness reflect essentialist biases -- Bruce Hood
Neuroprediction -- Abigail Marsh
The thin line between mental illness and mental health -- Joel Gold
Theodiversity -- Ara Norenzayan
Modernity is winning -- Gregory Paul
Religious morality is mostly below the belt -- Michael McCullough
A science of the consequences -- Luca De Biase
Creation of a "no ethnic majority" society -- David Berreby
Interconnectedness -- Irene Pepperberg
Early life adversity and collective outcomes -- Linda Wilbrecht
We're still behind -- Mary Catherine Bateson
Neural hacking, handprints, and the empathy deficit -- Daniel Goleman
Send in the drones -- Diana Reiss
That dress -- Susan Blackmore
Anthropic capitalism and the new gimmick economy -- Eric R. Weinstein
The origin of Europeans -- Gregory Cochran
The platinum rule : dense, heavy, but worth it -- Hazel Rose Markus
Adjusting to feathered dinosaurs -- John McWhorter
People are animals -- Laura Betzig
The longevity of news -- Diana Deutsch
Weather prediction has quietly gotten better -- Samuel Arbesman
The word : first as art, then as science -- Brian Christian
The convergence of images and technology -- Victoria Wyatt
The mindful meeting of minds -- Christine Finn
Carpe diem -- Ernst Pöppel
Linking the levels of human variation -- Elizabeth Wrigley-Field
Challenging the value of a university education -- Steve Fuller
The hermeneutic hypercycle -- Maximilian Schich
Rethinking authority with the blockchain crypto enlightenment -- Melanie Swan
Envoi : we may all die horribly -- Robert Sapolsky.
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