000			01612 a2200181 4500
008			230501b |||||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d
020			_a9780062109392 (PB)
041			_aeng
080			_a159.92 _bBRO
100			_aBrockman, John
245			_aThis Will Make You Smarter _bNew Scientific Concepts to Improve Your Thinking
260			_bHarper Perennial _c2016 _aNewYork
300			_axxx, 415p
500			_aThis Will Make You Smarter presents brilliant but accessible cutting-edge ideas that will improve everyone's decision-making, with contributions by Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Richard Dawkins, Brian Eno, Steven Pinker and more. What scientific concept would improve everybody's cognitive toolkit?This is the question John Brockman, publisher of Edge. org, posed to 150 of the world brightest and most influential minds. Their paradigm-changing answers are collected in This Will Make You Smarter, the stunning follow-up to This Will Change Everything, Is The Internet Changing the Way You Think and other books in this illuminating series from Edge. org. Brockman invokes the term "scientific" to hone in on the most reliable ways of gaining knowledge about anything-whether it be qualities of human spirit, the role of great figures in history, or the structure of DNA-and the concepts approached by his battery of thinkers includes explorations into philosophy, logic, economics, jurisprudence and other broad analytic enterprises with the potential to help humanity better engage with and understanding the world around us.
650			_aThought and thinking
690			_aGeneral
942			_cBK _01
999			_c59743 _d59743