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[edit] What Is Your Dangerous Idea?

[edit] External links

http://www.newsobserver.com/697/story/386147.html
http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,,2141029,00.html (see the second section)

[edit] Responses

According to Jill Murphy, a reviewer of the website "The Bookbag", What is Your Dangerous Idea? provides an easy-to-understand explanation of the topics covered in this book. She expands by writing that the ideas make the reader think about them.

“ The joy in this book is that it is easy to understand. Science duffer that I am, I had no difficulty with any of the concepts or theories. The Edge contributors really had exceeded their game. These ideas don't challenge the reader to understand them; they challenge the reader to think about them.[1] ”

The book has also been likened to "Shakespearean science"[2] by one reviewer, due to the expression of ideas formerly written by English playwright William Shakespeare, except with concrete evidence.

“ The result is definitely a "dessert island book" -- one you would choose if marooned on an island -- because most of the short answers provoke enough speculation and wonderment in your own mind to last a lifetime. You would take it for the same reasons you'd take Shakespeare -- beauty and universality. Shakespeare of course has on his own already expressed poetically what these thinkers say as a matter of science; but these ones cite research.[2] ”

Another reviewer summarized the various ideas, concluding that science's progress may make us realize our limits.

“ And so we are left with our final dangerous idea: Science's long journey down the corridors of knowledge has led us back to the realms of mystery and wonder. A method of inquiry that promised us mastery may ultimately remind us of our limits.[3] ”

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ Murphy, Jill. Review of What is Your Dangerous Idea? by John Brockman (editor). Retrieved on 2008-2-13.
  2. ^ a b Julian, Barbara. Shakespearean Science (HTML). Retrieved on 2008-03-25.
  3. ^ J. Peter Zane (08 January, 2006). The most dangerous idea. The News & Observer. Retrieved on 2008-03-31.