ON THIS Explains Everything, John Brockman, founder and publisher of Advantage.org, asked specialists in numerous areas and disciplines to create a common explanations for everyday occurrences. Why perform we recognize patterns? Will there be such a thing as positive tension? Are we genetically programmed to maintain conflict with each other? Those are just some of the 150 queries which the world’s best scientific minds response with elegant simpleness.

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