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Știința Viitorului (2012)

by Max Brockman(Favorite Author)

3.55 of 5 Votes: 2

languge

English

genre

Nonfiction

publisher

Nemira

review 1: Overall, a relatively snappy read, and occasionally some wonderful insights into current research. If, however, you're not particularly interested in neuroscience, you're going to find it a bit of a slog. The back of half of the book in particular seems almost exclusively focused on studies discussing various closely related issues in human psychology (including two - consecutive - near-indistinguishable essays on human morality). My personal favourite essay was William McEwan's "Molecular Cut-and-Paste", but I guess as a biochemist I'm pretty biased in that regard, and topic-wise it did seem fairly isolated in a sea of human psychology essays.Still, as I say, it's generally a pretty easy read, which is no mean feat for science writing, and especially so for a book like th... moreis - a book that attempts (and succeeds!) to clearly communicate cutting-edge science is rare, even if it it does tail off toward the end.
review 2: This collection of essays from the forefront of science today is a fun read. The 10-page essays were written by enormously talented young researchers from top universities around the (mostly western) world. A majority of the authors do an admirable job of describing their area in an appetizing manner. My main gripe is the distribution of scientific areas. I'm as interested in behavioural science and neuroscience as the next scientist, but I think the editor could have found some cutting edge science in the not unimportant areas of science like physics, chemistry and medicine. less

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