Future Science

Essays from the cutting edge
Erscheinungsjahr 2011
ISBN: 978-0-19-969935-3
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 160 Seiten, Format (B × H): 131 mm x 195 mm, Gewicht: 295 g

The next wave of science writing is here. Editor Max Brockman has talent-spotted 19 young scientists, working on leading-edge research across a wide range of fields. Nearly half of them are women, and all of them are great communicators: their passion and excitement makes this collection a wonderfully invigorating read.

We hear from an astrobiologist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena about the possibilities for life elsewhere in the solar system (and the universe); from the director of Yale's Comparative Cognition Laboratory about why we keep making the same mistakes; from a Cambridge lab about DNA synthesis; from the Tanzanian savannah about what lies behind attractiveness; we hear about how to breed plants to withstand disease, about ways to extract significance from the Interne's enormous
datasets, about oceanography, neuroscience, microbiology, and evolutionary psychology.

Zielgruppe

Ideal for popular science readers interested in the future of science and the scientific problems we're facing today

Autoren/Hrsg.

Brockman, Max

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Populärwissenschaftliche Werke
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Futurologie (Interdisziplinär)

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Max Brockman: Preface
1: Kevin P. Hand: On the Coming Age of Ocean Exploration
2: Felix Warneken: Children's Helping Hands
3: William McEwan: Molecular Cut and Paste
4: Anthony Aguirre: Next Step: Infinity
5: Daniela Kaufer and Darlene Francis: Nurture, Nature, and the Stress That is Life
6: Jon Kleinberg: What Can Huge Data Sets Teach Us About Society and Ourselves?
7: Coren Apicella: On the Universality of Attractiveness
8: Laurie R. Santos: To Err is Primate
9: Samuel M. McClure: Our Brains Know Why We Do What We Do
10: Jennifer Jacquet: Is Shame Necessary?
11: Kirsten Bomblies: Plant Immunity in a Changing World
12: Asif A. Ghazanfar: The Emergence of Human Audiovisual Communication
13: Naomi I. Eisenberger: Why Rejection Hurts
14: Joshua Knobe: Finding the Mind in the Body
15: Fiery Cushman: Should the Law Depend on Luck?
16: Liane Young: How We Read People's Moral Minds
17: Daniel Haun: How Odd I Am!
18: Joan Y. Chiao: Where Does Human Diversity Come From?
Acknowledgements

Über Autor(innen)

Max Brockman is the vice president of Brockman, Inc. a literary agency, and the editor of What's Next? Dispatches on the Future of Science. He also works with the Edge Foundation, Inc., a nonprofit organization that publishes the Edge newsletter (www.edge.com). He lives in New York City.