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Future Science: Essays from the cutting edge


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About the Book

The next wave of science writing is here. Editor Max Brockman has talent-spotted 19 young scientists, working on leading-edge research across a wide range of fields. Nearly half of them are women, and all of them are great communicators: their passion and excitement makes this collection a wonderfully invigorating read. We hear from an astrobiologist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena about the possibilities for life elsewhere in the solar system (and the universe); from the director of Yale's Comparative Cognition Laboratory about why we keep making the same mistakes; from a Cambridge lab about DNA synthesis; from the Tanzanian savannah about what lies behind attractiveness; we hear about how to breed plants to withstand disease, about ways to extract significance from the Interne's enormous datasets, about oceanography, neuroscience, microbiology, and evolutionary psychology.

Table of Contents:
Max Brockman: Preface 1: Kevin P. Hand: On the Coming Age of Ocean Exploration 2: Felix Warneken: Children's Helping Hands 3: William McEwan: Molecular Cut and Paste 4: Anthony Aguirre: Next Step: Infinity 5: Daniela Kaufer and Darlene Francis: Nurture, Nature, and the Stress That is Life 6: Jon Kleinberg: What Can Huge Data Sets Teach Us About Society and Ourselves? 7: Coren Apicella: On the Universality of Attractiveness 8: Laurie R. Santos: To Err is Primate 9: Samuel M. McClure: Our Brains Know Why We Do What We Do 10: Jennifer Jacquet: Is Shame Necessary? 11: Kirsten Bomblies: Plant Immunity in a Changing World 12: Asif A. Ghazanfar: The Emergence of Human Audiovisual Communication 13: Naomi I. Eisenberger: Why Rejection Hurts 14: Joshua Knobe: Finding the Mind in the Body 15: Fiery Cushman: Should the Law Depend on Luck? 16: Liane Young: How We Read People's Moral Minds 17: Daniel Haun: How Odd I Am! 18: Joan Y. Chiao: Where Does Human Diversity Come From? Acknowledgements

About the Author :
Max Brockman is the vice president of Brockman, Inc. a literary agency, and the editor of What's Next? Dispatches on the Future of Science. He also works with the Edge Foundation, Inc., a nonprofit organization that publishes the Edge newsletter (www.edge.com). He lives in New York City.

Review :
`I would have killed for books like this when I was a student!' Brian Eno `This remarkable collection of fluent and fascinating essays reminds me that there is almost nothing as spine-tinglingly exciting as glimpsing a new nugget of knowledge for the first time. These young scientists give us a treasure trove of precious new insights.' Matt Ridley, author of The Rational Optimist `Future Science shares with the world a delightful secret that we academics have been keeping - that despite all the hysteria about how electronic media are dumbing down the next generation, a tidal wave of talent has been flooding into science, making their elders feel like the dumb ones.....It has a wealth of new and exciting ideas, and will help shake up our notions regarding the age, sex, color, and topic clichés of the current public perception of science.' Steven Pinker


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780199699353
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press
  • Height: 195 mm
  • No of Pages: 272
  • Spine Width: 23 mm
  • Weight: 294 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0199699356
  • Publisher Date: 13 Oct 2011
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: Essays from the cutting edge
  • Width: 144 mm


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