{"id":5134,"date":"2012-02-18T18:24:52","date_gmt":"2012-02-19T02:24:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mymindonbooks.com\/?p=5134"},"modified":"2012-02-27T22:23:45","modified_gmt":"2012-02-28T06:23:45","slug":"new-post-this-will-make-you-smarter-new-scientific-concepts-to-improve-your-thinking-from-edge-orgs-annual-question-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mymindonbooks.com\/?p=5134","title":{"rendered":"new book &#8211; &#8216;This Will Make You Smarter: New Scientific Concepts to Improve Your Thinking&#8217; (from Edge.org&#8217;s Annual Question, 2011)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0062109391\/ref=as_li_ss_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=mymindonbooks-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=0062109391\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mymindonbooks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/smarter.jpg\" alt=\"This Will Make You Smarter\" title=\"smarter\" width=\"106\" height=\"160\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-5135\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0062109391\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=mymindonbooks-20&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=390957&#038;creativeASIN=0062109391\">This Will Make You Smarter: New Scientific Concepts to Improve Your Thinking<\/a> ed. by John Brockman (Harper Perennial)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B005LC1OR0\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=mymindonbooks-20&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=390957&#038;creativeASIN=B005LC1OR0\">(kindle ed.)<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/gp\/product\/0857521020\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=mymionbo-21&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=1634&#038;creative=19450&#038;creativeASIN=0857521020\">(amazon.co. uk)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Book description from the publisher:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Featuring a foreword by David Brooks, <em>This Will Make You Smarter<\/em> presents brilliant\u2014but accessible\u2014ideas to expand every mind.<\/p>\n<p><em>What scientific concept would improve everybody\u2019s cognitive toolkit?<\/em> This is the question John Brockman, publisher of Edge.org, posed to the world\u2019s most influential thinkers. Their visionary answers flow from the frontiers of psychology, philosophy, economics, physics, sociology, and more. Surprising and enlightening, these insights will revolutionize the way you think about yourself and the world.<\/p>\n<p>Daniel Kahneman on the \u201cfocusing illusion\u201d \u2022 Jonah Lehrer on controlling attention \u2022 Richard Dawkins on experimentation \u2022 Aubrey De Grey on conquering our fear of the unknown \u2022 Martin Seligman on the ingredients of well-being \u2022 Nicholas Carr on managing \u201ccognitive load\u201d \u2022 Steven Pinker on win-win negotiating \u2022 Daniel C. Dennett on benefiting from cycles \u2022 Jaron Lanier on resisting delusion \u2022 Frank Wilczek on the brain\u2019s hidden layers \u2022 Clay Shirky on the \u201c80\/20 rule\u201d \u2022 Daniel Goleman on understanding our connection to the natural world \u2022 V. S. Ramachandran on paradigm shifts \u2022 Matt Ridley on tapping collective intelligence \u2022 John McWhorter on path dependence \u2022 Lisa Randall on effective theorizing \u2022 Brian Eno on \u201cecological vision\u201d \u2022 Richard Thaler on rooting out false concepts \u2022 J. Craig Venter on the multiple possible origins of life \u2022 Helen Fisher on temperament \u2022 Sam Harris on the flow of thought \u2022 Lawrence Krauss on living with uncertainty\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>See also: <a href=\"http:\/\/edge.org\/conversation\/this-will-make-you-smarter\">Edge.org book info<\/a> (including full text of the foreword), <a href=\"http:\/\/edge.org\/annual-question\">Edge.org Annual Question<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Will Make You Smarter: New Scientific Concepts to Improve Your Thinking ed. by John Brockman (Harper Perennial) (kindle ed.), (amazon.co. uk) Book description from the publisher: Featuring a foreword by David Brooks, This Will Make You Smarter presents brilliant\u2014but accessible\u2014ideas to expand every mind. What scientific concept would improve everybody\u2019s cognitive toolkit? 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