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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
What Are You Optimistic About? What Are You Optimistic About? Robert Shapiro,Lisa Randall,John McCarthy,Andrew Brown,Douglas Rushkoff,Richard Dawkins,Freeman J. Dyson,Jared Diamond,Brian Greene,Martin Rees,Paul J. Steinhardt,Martin Elias Pete Seligman,John Horgan,J. Craig Venter,Alexander Vilenkin,Charles Seife,Geoffrey Miller,Marcelo Gleiser,Michael Shermer,Steven Pinker,Lawrence Maxwell Krauss,Anton Zeilinger,Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi,Daniel C. Dennett,John Brockman,Karl Sabbagh,Clay Shirky,Gino Segrè,Lee Smolin,Carlo Rovelli,Leonard Susskind,Sam Harris,Max Tegmark,Chris Anderson,Jerry Adler,Frank Wilczek The nightly news and conventional wisdom tell us that things are bad and getting worse. Yet despite dire predictions, scientists see many good things on the horizon. John Brockman, publisher of Edge … OL2790329W
The Language Instinct ("Daily Telegraph" Talking Science) The Language Instinct ("Daily Telegraph" Talking Science) Steven Pinker From the Preface... I have never met a person who is not interested in language. I wrote this book to try to satisfy that curiosity. Language is beginning to submit to that uniquely satisfying kin… OL477832W