What Have You Changed Your Mind About?: Today's Leading Minds Rethink Everything (Edge Question Series)
Brockman, John
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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| Name in long format: | What Have You Changed Your Mind About?: Today's Leading Minds Rethink Everything (Edge Question Series) |
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| ISBN-10: | 0061984906 |
| ISBN-13: | 9780061984907 |
| Book pages: | 418 |
| Book language: | en |
| Edition: | 1 |
| Binding: | Kindle Edition |
| Publisher: | HarperCollins e-books |
| Dimensions: | eBook |
