The book is a collection of articles written by scientists who explain how to improve our cognitive toolkits. Rather than improve my cognitive tool kit I just want to point out what I found of interest in the book. Strangers apparently find people more likable and form good first impressions if...
This is a book about the state of science today. As is the nature of these things, some of the theories are more deep, more elegant and more beautiful than others. The stand out entries, however, really do jolt the system with wonder and the book as a whole is like a shot in the arm of reason and...
If you think that everything, and I mean EVERYTHING in this world can be explained in a 400-page book, then you are absolutely wrong! And you will end up detesting this book. In "This Explains Everything: Deep, Beautiful, and Elegant Theories of How the World Works", John Brockman has asked influ...
Smith Director, Institute of Philosophy, School of Advanced Study, University of London; writer and presenter, BBC World Service series The Mysteries of the Brain For far too long, we have labored under a faulty conception of the senses. Ask anyone you know how many senses we have and they will p...
Progress is merely decreation. “Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem. We must not assume the existence of any entity until we are compelled to do so. This principle is purely destructive, it takes something away.”1 Decreation: “A person can doubt only if he ...