Future Science
Essays from the cutting edge
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 13 October 2011
- ISBN 9780199699353
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages272 pages
- Size 195x144x22 mm
- Weight 294 g
- Language English
- Illustrations A few line drawings 0
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Short description:
From 19 talented young scientists comes an exciting volume of essays about the future of science. Including cutting edge research across a wide range of fields, we make exciting new discoveries about some of the most interesting scientific problems today, from neuroscience and evolutionary psychology to plant populations and oceanography.
MoreLong description:
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.
Punchy, provocative and packed with fascinating insights
Table of Contents:
Preface
On the Coming Age of Ocean Exploration
Children's Helping Hands
Molecular Cut and Paste
Next Step: Infinity
Nurture, Nature, and the Stress That is Life
What Can Huge Data Sets Teach Us About Society and Ourselves?
On the Universality of Attractiveness
To Err is Primate
Our Brains Know Why We Do What We Do
Is Shame Necessary?
Plant Immunity in a Changing World
The Emergence of Human Audiovisual Communication
Why Rejection Hurts
Finding the Mind in the Body
Should the Law Depend on Luck?
How We Read People's Moral Minds
How Odd I Am!
Where Does Human Diversity Come From?
Acknowledgements
