This Will Make You Smarter

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John Brockman
Doubleday, 2012 - Brain - 415 pages
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"This Will Make You Smarter" presents brilliant but accessible cutting-edge ideas that will improve everyone's decision-making, with contributions by Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Richard Dawkins, Brian Eno, Steven Pinker, and others.

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User Review  - steve02476 - LibraryThing

100 or so short essays by brilliant people. Some great, most good. But this collection of essays doesn't really make a great book IMO. And the title offends me. Read full review

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User Review  - DLMorrese - LibraryThing

This is a mixed bag of very short essays by various scientists, philosophers, business people, and writers. Some of the articles (I estimate about 25%) I found quite good and, if not exactly ... Read full review

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About the author (2012)

John Brockmanis the founder and publisher of the influential science salon Edge.org. He is the CEO of the literary agency Brockman Inc., and lives in New York City.

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