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What are you optimistic about?

Paperback • 2007 • English • 1. edition

What are you optimistic about?: today's leading

By John Brockman

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The nightly news and conventional wisdom tell us that things are bad and getting worse. Yet despite dire predictions, scientists see many good things on the horizon. John Brockman, publisher of Edge (www.edge.org), the influential online salon, recently asked more than 150 high-powered scientific thinkers to answer a vital question for our frequently pessimistic times: "What are you optimistic about?"Spanning a wide range of topics-from string theory to education, from population growth to medic...Show more

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ISBN

9780061436932

Publisher

Vigmostad & Bjørke AS (VB Import)

Published year

2007

Language

English

Edition

1

Original title

What are you optimistic about?

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Paperback

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