A review by afarre01
This Will Make You Smarter: New Scientific Concepts to Improve Your Thinking by John Brockman

3.0

This book did make me smarter, but then again... Don't all books do that in some way? Overall, the essays were well organized and flowed from one topic to the next. The book was DEFINITELY elitist, and some of the essays were so condescending to nonscientists that they made me wonder if the authors were living in a bubble. There were some fantastic essays too, and I think the book could have been shortened to focus on those ideas.

Major focuses: using data in everyday life, how your brain works, evolution, cause and effect