This Explains Everything: Deep, Beautiful, and Elegant Theories of How the World Works by Gino Segrè, Robert M. Sapolsky, Rebecca Goldstein, Stewart Brand, Daniel C. Dennett, Mahzarin Banaji, Thomas Metzinger, Armand Marie Leroi, Matt Ridley, Gerd Gigerenzer, Jeremy Bernstein, John Brockman, A.C. Grayling, Steven Pinker, Shing-Tung Yau, Judith Rich Harris, Sean Carroll, Satyajit Das, Freeman Dyson, Anton Zeilinger, Aubrey de Grey, Frank Wilczek, Jennifer Jacquet, Jonathan Gottschall, David M. Buss, Scott Atran, Kevin P. Hand, Hugo Mercier, Max Tegmark, Dan Sperber, Carlo Rovelli, Andrei D. Linde, Martin J. Rees, Howard Gardner, Carl Zimmer, Alan Alda, James J. O'Donnell, David Eagleman, Susan Blackmore, Paul J. Steinhardt, Leonard Susskind, Clay Shirky, Richard Dawkins, Haim Harari, George Dyson, Paul Saffo, David G. Myers, Robert R. Provine, Joel Gold, Richard H. Thaler, V.S. Ramachandran

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This Explains Everything: Deep, Beautiful, and Elegant Theories of How the World Works
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Gino Segrè, Robert M. Sapolsky, Rebecca Goldstein, Stewart Brand, Daniel C. Dennett, Mahzarin Banaji, Thomas Metzinger, Armand Marie Leroi, Matt Ridley, Gerd Gigerenzer, Jeremy Bernstein, John Brockman, A.C. Grayling, Steven Pinker, Shing-Tung Yau, Judith Rich Harris, Sean Carroll, Satyajit Das, Freeman Dyson, Anton Zeilinger, Aubrey de Grey, Frank Wilczek, Jennifer Jacquet, Jonathan Gottschall, David M. Buss, Scott Atran, Kevin P. Hand, Hugo Mercier, Max Tegmark, Dan Sperber, Carlo Rovelli, Andrei D. Linde, Martin J. Rees, Howard Gardner, Carl Zimmer, Alan Alda, James J. O'Donnell, David Eagleman, Susan Blackmore, Paul J. Steinhardt, Leonard Susskind, Clay Shirky, Richard Dawkins, Haim Harari, George Dyson, Paul Saffo, David G. Myers, Robert R. Provine, Joel Gold, Richard H. Thaler, V.S. Ramachandran

411 pages • first pub 2013 (view editions)

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In This Explains Everything, John Brockman, founder and publisher of Edge.org, asked experts in numerous fields and disciplines to come up with their favorite explanations for everyday occurrences. Why do we recognize patterns? Is there such a thi...