The Universe: Leading Scientists Explore the Origin, Mysteries, and Future of the Cosmos by John BrockmanRequirements: .MP3 reader, 704.4 MBOverview: John Brockman brings together the world’s best-known physicists and science writers—including Brian Greene, Walter Isaacson, Nobel Prize-winners Murray Gell-Mann and Frank Wilczek, and Brian Cox—to explain the universe in all wondrous splendor. In Universe, today’s […]
Possible Minds: Twenty-Five Ways of Looking at AI by John BrockmanRequirements: .ePUB reader, 759KB Overview: More than sixty years ago, mathematician-philosopher Norbert Wiener published a book on the place of machines in society that ended with a warning: “we shall never receive the right answers to our questions unless we ask the right questions…. The […]
This Idea Must Die: Scientific Theories That Are Blocking Progress by John BrockmanRequirements: .MP3 reader, 451.7 MBOverview: Each year John Brockman, publisher of Edge.org, challenges some of the world’s greatest scientists, artists, and philosophers to answer a provocative question crucial to our time. In 2014 he asked 175 brilliant minds to ponder: What scientific idea […]
This Idea Is Brilliant: Lost, Overlooked, and Underappreciated Scientific Concepts Everyone Should Know by John BrockmanRequirements: .MP3 reader, 453.7 MBOverview: The latest volume in the bestselling series from Edge.org—dubbed “the world’s smartest website” by The Guardian—brings together 206 of the world’s most innovative thinkers to discuss the scientific concepts that everyone should know. As science […]
Know This: Today’s Most Interesting and Important Scientific Ideas, Discoveries, and Developments by John BrockmanRequirements: .M4A/.M4B reader, 421.1 MBOverview: The latest volume in the best-selling series from Edge.org – dubbed “the world’s smartest website” by The Guardian – brings together 175 of the world’s most innovative and brilliant thinkers to discuss recent scientific breakthroughs that […]