This Explains Everything: Deep, Beautiful, and Elegant Theories of How the World Works by Kevin P. Hand, V.S. Ramachandran, James J. O'Donnell, Carl Zimmer, George Dyson, Andrei D. Linde, Jonathan Gottschall, John Brockman, Richard H. Thaler, Armand Marie Leroi, Gino Segrè, Judith Rich Harris, A.C. Grayling, Thomas Metzinger, Aubrey de Grey, Satyajit Das, Sean Carroll, Jennifer Jacquet, Richard Dawkins, David G. Myers, Paul Saffo, Hugo Mercier, Susan Blackmore, Freeman Dyson, Matt Ridley, Robert R. Provine, Martin J. Rees, David Eagleman, Jeremy Bernstein, Frank Wilczek, Max Tegmark, Robert M. Sapolsky, Joel Gold, Mahzarin Banaji, Daniel C. Dennett, Carlo Rovelli, Steven Pinker, Paul J. Steinhardt, Clay Shirky, David M. Buss, Shing-Tung Yau, Dan Sperber, Scott Atran, Anton Zeilinger, Alan Alda, Gerd Gigerenzer, Stewart Brand, Haim Harari, Howard Gardner, Leonard Susskind, Rebecca Goldstein

411 pages first pub 2013 (editions)

nonfiction philosophy psychology science challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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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 thi...

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