Name: Third Millennium Thinking: Creating Sense in a World of Nonsense
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Author: Saul Perlmutter
ISBN: 9780316438100

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Third Millennium Thinking: Creating Sense in a World of Nonsense

Type

Physical Book

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Publisher

Language

English

Pages

320

Format

Hardcover

Dimensions

23.9 x 16.0 x 2.8 cm

Weight

0.51

ISBN13

9780316438100

Synopsis "Third Millennium Thinking: Creating Sense in a World of Nonsense"

Based on a wildly popular UC Berkeley course, how to use scientists' tricks of the trade to make the best decisions and solve the hardest problems in age of uncertainty and overwhelming information. In our deluge of information, it's getting harder and harder to distinguish the revelatory from the contradictory. How do we make health decisions in the face of conflicting medical advice? Does the research cited in that article even show what the authors claim? How can we navigate the next Thanksgiving discussion with our in-laws, who follow completely different experts on the topic of climate change? In Third Millennium Thinking, a physicist, a psychologist, and a philosopher introduce readers to the tools and frameworks that scientists have developed to keep from fooling themselves, to understand the world, and to make decisions. We can all borrow these trust-building techniques to tackle problems both big and small. Readers will learn: How to achieve a ground-level understanding of the facts of the modern world How to chart a course through a profusion of possibilities How to work together to take on the challenges we face today And much more Using provocative thought exercises, jargon-free language, and vivid illustrations drawn from history, daily life, and scientists' insider stories, Third Millennium Thinking offers a novel approach for readers to make sense of the nonsense.

Saul Perlmutter

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Saul Perlmutter (nacido en 1959) es un astrofísico estadounidense, galardonado con el Premio Nobel de Física 2011 por descubrir que la expansión del universo se está acelerando. Profesor en UC Berkeley y científico en el Laboratorio Nacional Lawrence Berkeley, lideró el Supernova Cosmology Project, siendo pionero en el uso de supernovas tipo Ia para medir la cosmología

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