The Marginalian
The Marginalian

Reads tagged with “John Brockman”

The Best Science Books of 2015
The Best Science Books of 2015

From Earth’s largest-hearted creature to the interconnectedness of the universe, by way of Einstein and artificial intelligence.

read article

This Idea Must Die: Some of the World’s Greatest Thinkers Each Select a Major Misconception Holding Us Back
This Idea Must Die: Some of the World’s Greatest Thinkers Each Select a Major Misconception Holding Us Back

From the self to left brain vs. right brain to romantic love, a catalog of broken theories that hold us back from the conquest of Truth.

read article

Big Thinkers on the Only Things Worth Worrying About
Big Thinkers on the Only Things Worth Worrying About

A cross-disciplinary kaleidoscope of intelligent concerns for the self and the species.

read article

How Our Minds Mislead Us: The Marvels and Flaws of Our Intuition
How Our Minds Mislead Us: The Marvels and Flaws of Our Intuition

“The confidence people have in their beliefs is not a measure of the quality of evidence but of the coherence of the story that the mind has managed to construct.”

read article

The 10 Best Psychology and Philosophy Books of 2012
The 10 Best Psychology and Philosophy Books of 2012

From Buddhism to the relationship between creativity and dishonesty, by way of storytelling and habit.

read article

What to Think About Machines That Think: Leading Thinkers on Artificial Intelligence and What It Means to Be Human
What to Think About Machines That Think: Leading Thinkers on Artificial Intelligence and What It Means to Be Human

“Once we had neurons. Now we’re becoming the neurons.”

read article

The Universe, “Branes,” and the Science of Multiple Dimensions
The Universe, “Branes,” and the Science of Multiple Dimensions

How a needle, a shower curtain, and a New England clam explain the possibility of parallel universes.

read article

The 13 Best Books of 2013: The Definitive Annual Reading List of Overall Favorites
The 13 Best Books of 2013: The Definitive Annual Reading List of Overall Favorites

Soul-stirring, brain-expanding reads on intuition, love, grief, attention, education, and the meaning of life.

read article

This Explains Everything: 192 Thinkers on the Most Elegant Theory of How the World Works
This Explains Everything: 192 Thinkers on the Most Elegant Theory of How the World Works

“The greatest pleasure in science comes from theories that derive the solution to some deep puzzle from a small set of simple principles in a surprising way.”

read article

The Best Science Books of 2012
The Best Science Books of 2012

From cosmology to cosmic love, or what your biological clock has to do with diagraming evolution.

read article

View Full Site

The Marginalian participates in the Bookshop.org and Amazon.com affiliate programs, designed to provide a means for sites to earn commissions by linking to books. In more human terms, this means that whenever you buy a book from a link here, I receive a small percentage of its price, which goes straight back into my own colossal biblioexpenses. Privacy policy. (TLDR: You're safe — there are no nefarious "third parties" lurking on my watch or shedding crumbs of the "cookies" the rest of the internet uses.)