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adam_text Titel: This explains everything Autor: Brockman, John Jahr: 2013 CONTENTS ACKNOWLEDGMENTS PREFACE: The Edge Question, by John Brockman SUSAN BLACKMORE Evolution by Means of Natural Selection MATT RIDLEY Life Is a Digital Code RICHARD DAWKINS Redundancy Reduction and Pattern Recognition SCOTT ATRAN The Power of Absurdity CARLO ROVELLI How Apparent Finality Can Emerge AUBREY DE GREY The Overdue Demise of Monogamy LEONARD SUSSKIND Boltzmann s Explanation of the Second Law of Thermodynamics JOEL GOLD The Dark Matter of the Mind ALAN ALDA There Are More Things in Heaven and Earth .. Than Are Dreamt of in Your Philosophy. REBECCA NEWBERGER GOLDSTEIN An Unresolved (and Therefore Unbeautiful) Reaction to the Edge Question JAMES J. O DONNELL Ptolemy s Universe PAUL STEINHARDT Quasi-Elegance SHING-TUNG YAU Mathematical Object or Natural Object? FRANK WILCZEK Simplicity THOMAS METZINGER Simplicity Itself SEAN CARROLL Einstein Explains Why Gravity Is Universal STEVEN PINKER Evolutionary Genetics and the Conflicts of Human Social Life JONATHAN GOTTSCHALL The Faurie-Raymond Hypothesis DAVID G. MYERS Group Polarization ARMAND MARIE LEROI The Price Equation GERD GIGERENZER Unconscious Inferences MARTIN J. REES Snowflakes and the Multiverse ANTON ZEILINGER Einstein s Photons JEREMY BERNSTEIN Go Small ANDREI LINDE Why Is Our World Comprehensible? GEORGE DYSON Alfvén s Cosmos 30 34 35 38 40 42 46 50 52 55 59 61 64 65 70 viii MAX TEGMARK Our Universe Grew Like a Baby GINO SEGRÈ Kepler et al. and the Nonexistent Problem FREEMAN DYSON How Incompatible Worldviews Can Coexist SATYAJIT DAS Impossible Inexactness HAIM HARARI The Next Level of Fundamental Matter? ROBERT PROVINE Observers Observing V. S. RAMACHANDRAN Genes, Claustrum, and Consciousness DAVID M. EAGLEMAN Overlapping Solutions MAHZARIN BANAJI Our Bounded Rationality ROBERT SAPOLSKY Swarm Intelligence KEITH DEVLIN Language and Natural Selection RICHARD H. THALER Commitment JENNIFER JACQUET Tit for Tat JUDITH RICH HARRIS True or False: Beauty Is Truth DAN SPERBER Eratosthenes and the Modular Mind CLAY SHIRKY 112 Dan Sperber s Explanation of Culture HUGO MERCIER 116 Metarepresentations Explain Human Uniqueness NICHOLAS HUMPHREY 119 Why the Human Mind May Seem to Have an Elegant Explanation Even If It Doesn t STEWART BRAND 122 Fitness Landscapes KEVIN P. HAND 125 On Oceans and Airport Security PAUL SAFFO 127 Plate Tectonics Elegantly Validates Continental Drift DANIEL C. DENNETT 129 Why Some Sea Turtles Migrate CARL ZIMMER 131 A Hot Young Earth: Unquestionably Beautiful and Stunningly Wrong DAVID M. BUSS 134 Sexual-Conflict Theory DAVID PIZARRO 136 The Seeds of Historical Dominance HOWARD GARDNER 137 The Importance of Individuals ANDRIAN KREYE 139 Subjective Environment RAPHAEL BOUSSO 141 My Favorite Annoying Elegant Explanation: Quantum Theory ERIC R. WEINSTEIN 144 Einstein s Revenge: The New Geometric Quantum X DAVE WINER 148 What Time Is It? TAÑIA LOMBROZO 149 Realism and Other Metaphysical Half-Truths SEIRIAN SUMNER 152 All We Need Is Help HELENA CRONIN 156 In the Beginning Is the Theory PAUL BLOOM 161 Thompson on Development JOHN McWHORTER 163 How Do You Get from a Lobster to a Cat? GREGORY COCHRAN 166 Germs Cause Disease CHRISTINE FINN 168 Dirt Is Matter Out of Place ANDREW LIH 169 Information Is the Resolution of Uncertainty PZ MYERS 172 Everything Is the Way It Is Because It Got That Way DAVID CHRISTIAN 174 The Idea of Emergence DIMITAR D. SASSELOV 177 Frames of Reference HELEN FISHER 179 Epigenetics—the Missing Link JOHN NAUGHTON 183 Flocking Behavior in Birds BARRY C. SMITH 184 Lemons Are Fast JOHN TOOBY 187 Falling into Place: Entropy and the Desperate Ingenuity of Life PETER ATKINS 191 Why Things Happen ELIZABETH DUNN 193 Why We Feel Pressed for Time BART KOSKO 196 Why the Sun Still Shines CHARLES SIMONYI 198 Boscovich s Explanation of Atomic Forces GREGORY S. PAUL 201 Birds Are the Direct Descendants of Dinosaurs BRUCE HOOD 204 Complexity Out of Simplicity A. C. GRAYLING 206 Russell s Theory of Descriptions TIMO HANNAY 208 Feynman s Lifeguard BRIAN ENO 210 The Limits of Intuition LISA RANDALL 212 The Higgs Mechanism SIMONE SCHNALL 215 The Mind Thinks in Embodied Metaphors BENJAMIN K. BERGEN 218 Metaphors Are in the Mind JON KLEINBERG 221 The Pigeonhole Principle xii MARTI HEARST Why Programs Have Bugs HANS -ULRICH OBRIST Cagepatterns SETH LLOYD The True Rotational Symmetry of Sp; CHARLES SEIFE The Pigeonhole Principle Revisited RODNEY A. BROOKS Moore s Law JOHN C. MATHER Cosmic Complexity SCOTT SAMPSON The Gaia Hypothesis LAURENCE C. SMITH The Continuity Equations TIM O REILLY Pascal s Wager S. ABBAS RAZA Evolutionarily Stable Strategies EVGENY MOROZOV The Collingridge Dilemma ERNST PÖPPEL Trusting Trust BRUCE PARKER It Just Is? PATRICK BATESON Subverting Biology SIMON BARON-COHEN Sex at Your Fingertips ALVY RAY SMITH 269 Why Do Movies Move? ALBERT-LÁSZLÓ BARABÁSI 273 Would You Like Blue Cheese with It? STUART PIMM 276 Mother Nature s Laws KARL SABBAGH 280 The Oklo Pyramid ADAM ALTER 283 Kitty Genovese and Group Apathy GERALD SMALLBERG 285 The Wizard of I DOUGLAS COUPLAND 287 One Coincidence; Two Déjà Vus KATINKA MATSON 289 Occam s Razor ALUN ANDERSON 290 Deep Time ERIC R. KANDEL 292 Placing Psychotherapy on a Scientific Basis: Five Easy Lessons SHERRY TURKLE 296 Transitional Objects RANDOLPH NESSE 299 Natural Selection Is Simple but the Systems It Shapes Are Unimaginably Complex MARCEL KINSBOURNE 303 How to Have a Good Idea NICHOLAS A. CHRISTAKIS 305 Out of the Mouths of Babes xiv PHILIP CAMPBELL 308 The Beauty in a Sunrise DYLAN EVANS 312 The Origin of Money DOUGLAS RUSHKOFF 315 The Precession of the Simulacra PHILIP ZIMBARDO 317 Time Perspective Theory ALISON GOPNIK 320 Developmental Timing Explains the Woes of Adolescence STEPHEN M. KOSSLYN AND ROBIN ROSENBERG 324 Implications of Ivan Pavlov s Great Discovery TERRENCE J. SEJNOWSKI 328 Nature Is Cleverer Than We Are MICHAEL I. NORTON 332 Imposing Randomness LAWRENCE M. KRAUSS 334 The Unification of Electricity and Magnetism NEIL GERSHENFELD 337 Furry Rubber Bands LEE SMOLIN 339 The Principle of Inertia ERIC J. TOPOL 343 Seeing Is Believing: From Placebos to Movies in Our Brain GERALD HOLTON 345 The Discontinuity of Science and Culture NASSIM NICHOLAS TALEB 347 Hormesis Is Redundancy ROBERT KURZBAN 351 The Beautiful Law of Unintended Consequences XV TIMOTHY D. WILSON 354 We Are What We Do SAMUEL BARONDES 356 Personality Differences: The Importance of Chance BEATRICE GOLOMB 359 Metabolic Syndrome: Cell Energy Adaptations in a Toxic World? EMANUEL DERMAN 364 Death Is the Final Repayment DAVID GELERNTER 365 Denumerable Infinities and Mental States RUDY RUCKER 367 Inverse Power Laws SAMUEL ARBESMAN 370 How the Leopard Got His Spots STANISLAS DEHAENE 372 The Universal Algorithm for Human Decision Making MIHALY CSIKSZENTMIHALYI 376 Lord Acton s Dilemma VICTORIA STODDEN 377 Fact, Fiction, and Our Probabilitic World GEORGE CHURCH 381 Elegant = Complex IRENE PEPPERBERG 383 Tinbergen s Questions GLORIA ORIGGI 385 The Universal Turing Machine RICHARD FOREMAN 387 A Matter of Poetics xvi JARED DIAMOND 389 The Origins of Biological Electricity TIMOTHY TAYLOR 392 Why the Greeks Painted Red People on Black Pots ANDY CLARK 395 Language As an Adaptive System NICHOLAS J. CARR 397 The Mechanism of Mediocrity MICHAEL SHERMER 399 The Principle of Empiricism, or See for Yourself KEVIN KELLY 402 We Are Stardust INDEX 403 xvii
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