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This explains everything: deep, beautiful, and elegant theories of how the world works
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Evolution by means of natural selection / Susan Blackmore
Life is a digital code / Matt Ridley
Redundancy reduction and pattern recognition / Richard Dawkins
The power of absurdity / Scott Atran
How apparent finality can emerge / Carlo Rovelli
The overdue demise of monogamy / Aubrey de Grey
Boltzmann's explanation of the second law of thermodynamics / Leonard Susskind
The dark matter of the mind / Joel Gold
"There are more things in heaven and earth...than are dreamt of in your philosophy." / Alda Alda
An unresolved (and therefore unbeautiful) reaction to the edge question / Rebecca Newberger Goldstein
Ptolemy's universe / James J. O'Donnell
Quasi-elegance / Paul Steinhardt
Mathematical object or natural object? / Shing-Tung Yau
Simplicity / Frank Wilczek
Simplicity itself / Thomas Metzinger
Einstein explains why gravity is universal / Sean Carroll
Evolutionary genetics and the conflicts of human social life / Steven Pinker
The Faurie-Raymond hypothesis / Jonathan Gottschall
Group polarization / David G. Myers
The price equation / Armand Marie Leroi
Unconscious inferences / Gerd Gigerenzer
Snowflakes and the multiverse / Martin J. Rees
Einstein's photons / Anton Seilinger
Go small / Jeremy Bernstein
Why is our world comprehensible? / Andrei Linde
Alfvén's cosmos / George Dyson
Our universe grew like a baby / Max Tegmark
Kepler et al. and the nonexistent problem / Gino Segrè
How incompatible worldviews can coexist / Freeman Dyson
Impossible inexactness / Satyajit Das
The next level of fundamental matter? / Haim Harari
Observers observing / Robert Provine
Genes, claustrum, and consciousness / V.S. Ramachandran
Overlapping solutions / David M. Eagleman
Our bounded rationality / Mahzarin Banaji
Swarm intelligence / Robert Sapolsky
Language and natural selection / Keith Devlin
Commitment / Richard H. Thaler
Tit for tat / Jennifer Jacquet
True or false : beauty is truth / Judith Rich Harris
Eratosthenes and the modular mind / Dan Sperber
Dan Sperber's explanation of culture / Clay Shirky
Metarepresentations explain human uniqueness / Hugo Mercier
Why the human mind may seem to have an elegant explanation even if it doesn't / Nicholas Humphrey
Fitness landscapes / Stewart Brand
On oceans and airport security / Kevin P. Hand
Plate tectonics elegantly validates continental drift / Paul Saffo
Why some sea turtles migrate / Daniel C. Dennett
A hot young earth : unquestionably beautiful and stunningly wrong / Carl Zimmer
Sexual-conflict theory / David M. Buss
The seeds of historical dominance / David Pizarro
The importance of individuals / Howard Gardner
Subjective environment / Andrian Kreye
My favorite annoying elegant explanation : quantum theory / Raphael Bousso
Einstein's revenge : the new geometric quantum / Eric R. Weinstein
What time is it? / Dave Winer
Realism and other metaphysical half-truths / Tania Lombrozo
All we need is help / Seirian Sumner
In the beginning is the theory / Helena Cronin
Thompson on development / Paul Bloom
How do you get from a lobster to a cat? / John McWhorter
Germs cause disease / Gregory Cochran
Dirt is matter out of place / Christine Finn
Information is the resolution of uncertainty / Andrew Lih
Everything is the way it is because it got that way / PZ Myers
The idea of emergence / David Christian
Frames of reference / Dimitar D. Sasselov
Epigenetics
the missing link / Helen Fisher
Flocking behavior in birds / John Naughton
Lemons are fast / Barry C. Smith
Falling into place : entropy and the desperate ingenuity of life / John Tooby
Why things happen / Peter Atkins
Why we feel pressed for time / Elizabeth Dunn
Why the sun still shines / Bart Kosko
Boscovich's explanation of atomic forces / Charles Simonyi
Birds are the direct descendants of dinosaurs / Gregory S. Paul
Complexity out of simplicity / Bruce Hood
Russell's theory of descriptions / A.C. Grayling
Feynman's lifeguard / Timo Hannay
The limits of intuition / Brian Eno
The Higgs mechanism / Lisa Randall
The mind thinks in embodied metaphors / Simone Schnall
Metaphors are in the mind / Benjamin K. Bergen
The pigeonhole principle / Jon Kleinberg
Why programs have bugs / Marti Hearst
Cagepatterns / Hans-Ulrich Obrist
The true rotational symmetry of space / Seth LLoyd
The pigeonhole principle revisited / Charles Seife
Moore's Law / Rodney A. Brooks
Cosmic complexity / John C. Mather
The Gaia hypothesis / Scott Sampson
The continuity equations / Laurence C. Smith
Pascal's wager / Tim O'Reilly
Evolutionarily stable strategies / S. Abbas Raza
The Collingridge dilemma / Evgeny Morozov
Trusting trust / Ernst Pöppel
It just is? / Bruce Parker
Subverting biology / Patrick Bateson
Sex at your fingertips / Simon Baron-Cohen
Why do movies move? / Alvy Ray Smith
Would you like blue cheese with it? / Albert-László Barabási
Mother nature's laws / Stuart Pimm
The Oklo pyramid / Karl Sabbagh
Kitty Genovese and group apathy / Adam Alter
The wizard of I / Gerald Smallberg
One coincidence; two déjà vus / Douglas Coupland
Occam's razor / Katinka Matson
Deep time / Alun Anderson
Placing psychotherapy on a scientific basis : five easy lessons / Eric R. Kandel
Transitional objects / Sherry Turkel
Natural selection is simple but the systems it shapes are unimaginably complex / Randolph Nesse
How to have a good idea / Marcel Kinsbourne
Out of the mouths of babes / Nicholas A. Christakis
The beauty in a sunrise / Philip Campbell
The origin of money / Dylan Evans
The precession of the simulacra / Douglas Rushkoff
Time perspective theory / Philip Zimbardo
Developmental timing explains the woes of adolescence / Alison Gopnik
Implications of Ivan Pavlov's great discovery / Stephen M. Kossly and Robin Rosenberg
Nature is cleverer than we are / Terrence J. Sejnowski
Imposing randomness / Michael I. Norton
The unification of electricity and magnetism / Lawrence M. Krauss
Furry rubber bands / Neil Gershenfeld
The principle of inertia / Lee Smolin
Seeing is believing : from placebos to movies in our brain / Eric J. Topol
The discontinuity of science and culture / Gerald Holton
Hormesis is redundancy / Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The beautiful law of unintended consequences / Robert Kurzban
We are what we do / Timothy D. Wilson
Personality differences : the importance of chance / Samuel Barondes
Metabolic syndrome : cell energy adaptations in a toxic world? / Beatrice Golomb
Death is the final repayment / Emanuel Derman
Denumerable infinities and mental states / David Gelernter
Inverse power laws / Rudy Rucker
How the leopard got his spots / Samuel Arbesman
The universal algorithm for human decision making / Stanislas Dehaene
Lord Acton's dilemma / Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Fact, fiction, and our probabilitic world / Victoria Stodden
Elegance=complex / George Church
Tinbergen's questions / Irene Pepperberg
The universal turing machine / Gloria Origgi
A matter of poetics / Richard Foreman
The origins of biological electricity / Jared Diamond
Why the Greeks painted red people on black pots / Timothy Taylor
Language as an adaptive system / Andy Clark
The mechanism of mediocrity / Nicholas J. Carr
The principle of empiricism, or see for yourself / Michael Shermer
We are stardust / Kevin Kelly.
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Berkrot, Peter narrator
Brockman, John,1941
Brockman, John,1941- editor
Ferguson, Antony narrator
Lee, Ann Marie narrator
Brockman, John,1941
Brockman, John,1941- editor
Ferguson, Antony narrator
Lee, Ann Marie narrator
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9781452649146
9781452619149
9781452649146
9781452619149
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