Article archive / December 2018
Originally published: . Volume 9, No. 12. Source pages: 14.
This Explains Everything: Deep, Beautiful, and Elegant Theories of How the World Works, is an edited volume by John Brockman published by Harper. Other titles in the series include, This Idea is Brilliant, Know This, This Will Change Everything, and Thinking. Brockman asks elite scientists and philosophers to write short essays to answer one question.
For this title it was, "What is your favorite deep, elegant, or beautiful explanation?" The book is packed full of cool ideas, where each essay is by a different scientist with a different perspective, everything from genetics, neuroscience, philosophy, evolution, psychology, sociology, astrophysics and quantum mechanics. The breath and depth that is covered by this approach ––it is absolutely staggering. For theory lovers, it's totally addictive.
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