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PONDER THE UNIVERSE'S GREATEST UNANSWERED QUESTIONS
A little book of big questions, posed by "the world's finest minds" (The Guardian): in The Last Unknowns, Jared Diamond, Steven Pinker, Elaine Pagels, Nobel laureate Richard Thaler, Booker Prize-winner Ian McEwan, Harvard physicist Lisa Randall, and more than 200 other leading thinkers reveal the universe's greatest unanswered questions.
This is a book of questions--only questions. In these pages are the universe's last and greatest unknowns. Here are the riddles that have fascinated, perplexed, and obsessed today's greatest minds. In the spirit of the multi-million-copy, #1 New York Times bestselling The Book of Questions, comes John Brockman's The Last Unknowns, the conclusion to the bestselling Edge Question Series.
Every great thinker has his or her "ultimate question," the unknown that, if answered, could unlock the secrets of our world, our civilization, and even the meaning of life. And so, John Brockman asked 284 of the world's leading scientists, academics, artists, and intellectuals, "What is 'The Last Question, ' your last question, the question for which you will be remembered?"
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THE UNIVERSE'S ULTIMATE MYSTERIES, PRESENTED BY "THE WORLD'S FINEST MINDS" (The Guardian)
This is a little book of grand questions--unknowns that, if answered, could unlock the secrets of our world, our civilization, and even 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-wining novelists, religious scholars, and more than 250 leading scientists, artists, and scholars. 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 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 - Nobel Prize-winning physicist FRANK WILCZEK - New York Times columnist CARL ZIMMER - Whole Earth founder STEWART BRAND - economist TYLER COWEN - Wired founding editor KEVIN KELLY - Princeton physicist FREEMAN DYSON - musician BRIAN ENO - Duke economist DAN ARIELY - Harvard cosmologist LISA RANDALL, and more than 200 others.
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THE UNIVERSE'S ULTIMATE MYSTERIES, PRESENTED BY "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 grand questions--unknowns that, if answered, could unlock the secrets of our world, our civilization, and even 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-wining 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 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 - Nobel Prize-winning physicist FRANK WILCZEK - New York Times columnist CARL ZIMMER - Whole Earth founder STEWART BRAND - economist TYLER COWEN - Wired founding editor KEVIN KELLY - Princeton physicist FREEMAN DYSON - musician BRIAN ENO - Duke economist DAN ARIELY - Harvard cosmologist LISA RANDALL, and more than 200 others.
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The universe's ultimate mysteries, presented by "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--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.
Synopsis
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.