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    This Explains Everything: Deep, Beautiful, and Elegant Theories of How the World Works
    This Explains Everything: Deep, Beautiful, and Elegant Theories of How the World Works
    This Explains Everything: Deep, Beautiful, and Elegant Theories of How the World Works
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    This Explains Everything: Deep, Beautiful, and Elegant Theories of How the World Works

    Written by John Brockman

    Narrated by Michelle Ford, Peter Berkrot, Antony Ferguson and Ann Marie Lee

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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 thing as positive stress? Are we genetically programmed to be in conflict with each other? Those are just some of the 150 questions that the world's best scientific minds answer with elegant simplicity.

    With contributions from Jared Diamond, Richard Dawkins, Nassim Taleb, Brian Eno, Steven Pinker, and more, everything is explained in fun, uncomplicated terms that make the most complex concepts easy to comprehend.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateFeb 5, 2014
    ISBN9781452689142
    This Explains Everything: Deep, Beautiful, and Elegant Theories of How the World Works
    Author

    John Brockman

    The publisher of the online science salon Edge.org, John Brockman is the editor of Know This, This Idea Must Die, This Explains Everything, This Will Make You Smarter, and other volumes.

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    • 2/5
      An inexact question answered many times in mostly too brief to understand explanations.

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    • 5/5
      It deserves listening over and over again. I may actually get smarter from this book.

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