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THE REAL LASTING POWER OF TWO

[6.11.13]

Where do cool ideas come from? Every year, the online salon Edge.org poses one question and gets a bunch of smart people to answer it.

The 2011 question was: What scientific concept would improve everybody’s cognitive toolkit? The answers, compiled as a book with the laughably ambitious title, This Will Make You Smarter: New Scientific Concepts to Improve Your Thinking, has 165 contributions from eminent thinkers on subjects too disparate to be memorable: anthropophilia, cognitive humility, haecceity, and other such abstruse concepts.

Some themes emerge out of this morass of ideas. One that informs this column is called dualism.

THE REAL LASTING POWER OF TWO [1]

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Shoba Narayan
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[ Tue. Jun. 11. 2013 ]

Where do cool ideas come from? Every year, the online salon Edge.org poses one question and gets a bunch of smart people to answer it.

The 2011 question was: What scientific concept would improve everybody’s cognitive toolkit? The answers, compiled as a book with the laughably ambitious title, This Will Make You Smarter: New Scientific Concepts to Improve Your Thinking, has 165 contributions from eminent thinkers on subjects too disparate to be memorable: anthropophilia, cognitive humility, haecceity, and other such abstruse concepts.

Some themes emerge out of this morass of ideas. One that informs this column is called dualism.

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