This Will Make You Smarter: New Scientific Concepts to Improve Your Thinking
by:
John Brockman (author)
John Brockman,Paperback - Original, English-language edition,Pub by HarperCollins Publishers on 02-14-2012
John Brockman,Paperback - Original, English-language edition,Pub by HarperCollins Publishers on 02-14-2012
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Format: Textbook
ISBN:
9780062109392 (0062109391)
ASIN: 9780062109392
Publish date: 14-02-2012
Publisher: HarperCollins
Edition language: English
Most probably the title of this book is meant to be a joke. With the contributors of this book, I will almost certainly feel myself dumber.
Will this book make you smarter? What is smart? It is a synonym for intelligent and Stephen J. Gould described intelligence as a vernacular term that describes a wide variety of abilities propensities and interests none of which are very closely related to most of the others. If that is the case the...