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The Last Unknowns - Deep, Elegant, Profound Unanswered Questions About the Universe, the Mind, the Future of Civilization, and the Meaning of Life (Paperback)
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The Last Unknowns - Deep, Elegant, Profound Unanswered Questions About the Universe, the Mind, the Future of Civilization, and the Meaning of Life (Paperback)
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Discover the universe's last unknowns-here are the unanswered
questions that obsess "the world's finest minds" (The Guardian)
Featuring a foreword by DANIEL KAHNEMAN, Nobel Prize-winning author
of Thinking, Fast and Slow This is a little book of profound
questions (only questions!)-unknowns that address the secrets of
our world, our civilization, the meaning of life. Here are the
deepest riddles that have fascinated, obsessed, and haunted the
greatest thinkers of our time, including Nobel laureates,
cosmologists, philosophers, economists, prize-winning novelists,
religious scholars, and more than 250 leading scientists, artists,
and theorists. In The Last Unknowns, John Brockman, publisher of
Edge.org, asks "a mind-blowing gathering of innovative thinkers"
(Booklist): "What is 'The Last Question,' your last question, the
question for which you will be remembered?" Featuring the Pulitzer
Prize-winning author of Guns, Germs, and Steel JARED DIAMOND *
Nobel Prize-winning University of Chicago economist RICHARD THALER
* Harvard psychologist STEVEN PINKER * religion scholar ELAINE
PAGELS * author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics CARLO ROVELLI *
Booker Prize-winning novelist IAN McEWAN * neuroscientist SAM
HARRIS * philosopher DANIEL C. DENNETT * MIT theorist SHERRY TURKLE
* decoder of the human genome J. CRAIG VENTER * The Coddling of the
American Mind author JONATHAN HAIDT * Nobel Prize-winning physicist
FRANK WILCZEK * UC Berkeley psychologist ALISON GOPNICK *
philosopher REBECCA NEWBERGER GOLDSTEIN * New York Times columnist
CARL ZIMMER * MIT cosmologist MAX TEGMARK * Whole Earth founder
STEWART BRAND * "Marginal Revolution" economist TYLER COWEN *
Anatomy of Love author HELEN FISHER * Noble Prize-winning NASA
physicist JOHN C. MATHER * psychologist JUDITH RICH HARRIS *
Princeton physicist FREEMAN DYSON * musician BRIAN ENO *
environmental scientist JENNIFER JACQUET * Duke economist DAN
ARIELY * Oxford philosopher A. C. GRAYLING * Harvard cosmologist
LISA RANDALL * anthropologist MARY CATHERINE BATESON * Emotional
Intelligence author DANIEL GOLEMAN * Harvard genticist GEORGE
CHURCH * Blueprint author NICHOLAS A. CHRISTAKIS * Stanford
political scientist MARGARET LEVI * economist ALAN S. BLINDER *
publisher TIM O'REILLY * theoretical cosmologist JANNA LEVIN *
Serpentine Gallery owner HANS ULRICH OBRIST * Wired founding editor
KEVIN KELLY * Cambridge astrophysicist MARTIN REES, and more than
200 others.
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