This Idea Is Brilliant

From the bestselling editor of This Explains Everything, 206 of the world''s most brilliant minds tackle Edge.org''s 2017 question: What scientific term or concept ought to be more widely known?As science informs public policy, decision making, and so many aspects of our everyday lives, a scientifically literate society is crucial. In that spirit, Edge.org publisher John Brockman asked 206 the world¿s best minds the 2017 Edge Question: What scientific term or concept ought to be more widely known?Contributors include: author of The God Delusion RICHARD DAWKINS on using animals¿ ¿Genetic Book of the Dead¿ to reconstruct ecological history; theoretical physicist and author of A Universe from Nothing Lawrence Krauss on "uncertainty" and resisting our temptation to assign meaning to random events; MacArthur Fellow REBECCA NEWBERGER GOLDSTEIN on ¿scientific realism,¿ the idea that scientific theories explain phenomena beyond what we can see and touch; behavioral economist RICHARD THALER on