2011 : WHAT SCIENTIFIC CONCEPT WOULD IMPROVE EVERYBODY'S COGNITIVE TOOLKIT?

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2011 : WHAT SCIENTIFIC CONCEPT WOULD IMPROVE EVERYBODY'S COGNITIVE TOOLKIT?

The Controlled Experiment Timo Hannay Founding Managing Director, SchoolDash; Co-organizer, Sci...	Ecology Brian Eno Artist; Composer; Recording Producer: U2, Coldplay, Talking...
Focusing Illusion Daniel Kahneman Recipient, Nobel Prize in Economics, 2002; Eugene Higgins...	The Double-Blind Control Experiment Richard Dawkins Evolutionary Biologist; Emeritus Professor of the Public...
Chunks With Handles Vilayanur Ramachandran Neuroscientist; Professor & Director, Center for Brain...	Aether Richard H. Thaler Father of Behavioral Economics; Recipient, 2017 Nobel...
Anthropophilia Andrew Revkin Senior Fellow for Environmental Understanding at Pace...	Because Nigel Goldenfeld Physicist, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Information Flow David Dalrymple Research affiliate, MIT Media Lab	Response Stuart Firestein Professor and Chair, Department of Biological Sciences,...
The Other Dimitar D. Sasselov Professor of Astronomy, Harvard University; Director,...	Ambient Memory And The Myth Of Neutral Observation Xeni Jardin Tech Culture Journalist; Partner, Contributor, Co-editor,...
We Are Not Alone In The Universe J. Craig Venter A leading scientist of the 21st century for Genomic...	The Dece(i)bo Effect Beatrice Golomb Professor of Medicine at UCSD
Cognitive Humility Gary Marcus Professor of Psychology, Director NYU Center for Language...	Living is fatal Seth Lloyd Professor of Quantum Mechanical Engineering, MIT; Author,...
Deep Time And The Far Future Martin Rees Former President, The Royal Society; Emeritus Professor of...	A Statistically Significant Difference in Understanding the Scientific Process Diane F. Halpern Professor, Claremont McKenna College; Past-president,...
Kayfabe Eric R. Weinstein Mathematician and Economist; Managing Director of Thiel...	Replicability Brian Knutson Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience; Stanford...
A Solution for Collapsed Thinking: Signal Detection Theory Mahzarin Banaji Department Chair; Richard Clarke Cabot Professor of Social...	The Senses and the Multi-Sensory Barry C. Smith Professor & Director, Institute of Philosophy School of...
It Ain't Necessarily So Neri Oxman Architect, Researcher, MIT; Founder, Materialecology	Response Carl Page Serial Entrepreneur; Co-founder, eGroups
Response Stewart Brand Founder, the Whole Earth Catalog; Co-founder, The Well; Co-...	Response Kevin P. Hand Deputy Chief Scientist for Solar System Exploration, NASA...
Everyday Apophenia David Pizarro Associate Professor of Psychology, Cornell University	Phase Transitions And Scale Transitions: Conceptualizing Unexpected Changes Due To Scale Victoria Stodden Associate Professor of Information Sciences, University of...
Proxemic of Urban Sexuality Stefano Boeri Architect; Professor, Politecnico of Milan; Visiting...	Uncalculated Risk Antony Garrett Lisi Theoretical physicist
Correlation is not a cause Susan Blackmore Psychologist; Visiting Professor, University of Plymouth;...	Personal data mining David Rowan Editor, WIRED UK
The Snuggle For Existence Roger Highfield Director, External Affairs, Science Museum Group; Co-author...	Knowledge Mark Pagel Professor of Evolutionary Biology, Reading University, UK;...
An Instinct to Learn W. Tecumseh Fitch Professor of Cognitive Biology, University of Vienna;...	Q. E. D. Moments Bart Kosko Information Scientist and Professor of Electrical...
The Culture Cycle Alana Conner Cultural psychologist, writer, and consultant	We Are Unique Marcelo Gleiser Appleton Professor of Natural Philosophy, Dartmouth College...
Supervenience! Joshua D. Greene Cognitive Neuroscientist and Philosopher, Harvard University	Sexual Selection David M. Buss Professor of Psychology, University of Texas, Austin;...
The Culture Cycle Hazel Rose Markus Davis-Brack Professor in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford...	Objects of Understanding and Communication Richard Saul Wurman Founder, TED Conference; EG Conference; TEDMED Conferences...
Duality and World Piece Stephon H. Alexander Professor of Physics at Brown University; Author, The Jazz...	Nexus causality, moral warfare and misattribution arbitrage. John Tooby Founder of field of Evolutionary Psychology; Co-director,...
Confabulation Fiery Cushman Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Harvard...	The Paradox Anthony Aguirre Professor of Physics, University of California, Santa Cruz...
The Veeck Effect Gregory Cochran Consultant; Adaptive Optics and Adjunct Professor of...	Homo Sensus-Sapiens: The animal that feels and rationalizes Eduardo Salcedo-Albaran Philosopher; Director, Scientific Vortex, Inc.
The Umwelt David M. Eagleman Neuroscientist, Stanford University; Author, Incognito, Sum...	We are Lost in Thought Sam Harris Neuroscientist; Philosopher; Author, Making Sense
Depth Tor Nørretranders Writer; Speaker; Thinker, Copenhagen, Denmark	Reason Paul Bloom Brooks and Suzanne Ragen Professor of Psychology and...
Diversity is Universal Joan Chiao Assistant Professor of Psychology at Northwestern University	The Mediocrity Principle P Z Myers Biologist; Associate Professor, University of Minnesota,...
Innovation Laurence C. Smith Professor of Environmental Studies, Brown University;...	Einstellung Effect Evgeny Morozov Contributing Editor, Foreign Policy; Syndicated Columnist;...
Scientific Concept Max Tegmark Physicist, MIT; Researcher, Precision Cosmology; Scientific...	The Lure Of A Good Story Robert Sapolsky Neuroscientist, Stanford University; Author, Behave
Technology Came Before Humanity And, Evolutionarily, Paved The Way For It Timothy Taylor Jan Eisner Professor of Archaeology, Comenius University in...	Hunting for Root Cause: The Human Black Box Eric Topol Professor of Genomics, The Scripps Translational Science...
You can show something is definitely dangerous, but not definitely safe Tom Standage Business Affairs Editor, The Economist; Author, The Edible...	Game of Life â€” And Looking For Generators Nick Bostrom Professor, Oxford University; Director, Future of Humanity...
Control Your Spotlight Jonah Lehrer Contributing Editor, Wired; Author, A Book About Love	Duality Amanda Gefter Science writer; Author, Trespassing on Einstein's Lawn
The Pessimistic Meta-Induction from the History of Science Kathryn Schulz journalist	The Black Swan Technology Vinod Khosla co-founder of Daisy Systems and founding Chief Executive...
Response Adam Alter Psychologist; Assistant Professor of Marketing, Stern...	Entanglement Marco Iacoboni Neuroscientist; Professor of Psychiatry & Biobehavioral...
INTERBEING Scott Sampson President & CEO, Science World British Columbia;...	A Cognitive Toolkit Full Of Garbage Ernst Pöppel Head of Research Group Systems, Neuroscience and Cognitive...
Cultural Attractors Dan Sperber Social and Cognitive Scientist; CEU Budapest and CNRS Paris...	Science Versus Theatre Ross Anderson Professor of Security Engineering at Cambridge University
While We Are Social Creatures, It's Often Best Not To Admit It Dave Winer Blogging and RSS Software Pioneer; Editor, Scripting News...	Path Dependence John McWhorter Professor of Linguistics and Western Civilization, Columbia...
Defeasibility Tania Lombrozo Professor of Psychology, UC Berkeley	Personality traits are continuous with mental illnesses Geoffrey Miller Evolutionary psychologist, NYU Stern Business School and...
Shifting Baseline Syndrome Paul Kedrosky Editor, Infectious Greed; General Partner, SK Ventures	Non-Inherent Inheritance George Church Professor, Harvard University; Director, Personal Genome...
E Pluribus Unum Jon Kleinberg Tisch University Professor of Computer Science, Cornell...	Time Span of Discretion Paul Saffo Technology Forecaster; Consulting Associate Professor,...
Parallel Errors Satyajit Das Former Financier; Author, Age of Stagnation	Einstein's Blade in Ockham's Razor Kai Krause Software Pioneer; Philosopher; Author, A Realtime...
Absence and Evidence Christine Finn Archaeologist; Journalist; Author, Artifacts, Past Poetic	Wicked Problems Jay Rosen Associate Professor of Journalism, New York University
Homo Dilatus Alun Anderson Senior Consultant (and former Editor-in-Chief and...	Kakonomics Gloria Origgi Philosopher and Researcher, Centre National de la Recherche...
The Virtues of Negative Results Kevin Kelly Senior Maverick, Wired; Author, What Technology Wants and...	Risk Literacy Gerd Gigerenzer Psychologist; Director, Harding Center for Risk Literacy,...
The Uselessness of Certainty Carlo Rovelli Theoretical Physicist; Aix-Marseille University, in the...	Thinking In Time Versus Thinking Outside Of Time Lee Smolin Physicist, Perimeter Institute; Author, Einstein's...
Bias Is The Nose For The Story Gerald Smallberg Practicing Neurologist, New York City; Playwright, Off-Off...	Science Lisa Randall Physicist, Harvard University; Author, Dark Matter and the...
ARISE Joel Gold Psychiatrist; Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry,...	Everything Is In Motion James J. O'Donnell Classics Scholar, University Librarian, ASU; Author, Pagans
Pareto Principle Clay Shirky Social & Technology Network Topology Researcher;...	Collective intelligence Matt Ridley Science Writer; Fellow, Royal Society of Literature and the...
Life Code Juan Enriquez Managing Director, Excel Venture Management; Co-author (...	Phenomenally Transparent Self-Model Thomas Metzinger Professor of Theoretical Philosophy, Johannes Gutenberg-...
Bricoleur James Croak Artist	Hidden Layers Frank Wilczek Physicist, MIT; Recipient, 2004 Nobel Prize in Physics;...
Temperament Dimensions Helen Fisher Biological Anthropologist, Rutgers University; Author, Why...	Self-Serving Bias David G. Myers Professor of Psychology, Hope College; Co-author,...
Predictive Coding Andy Clark Professor of Cognitive Philosophy, Department of Philosophy...	Free Jazz Andrian Kreye Editor-at-large of the German Daily Newspaper, Sueddeutsche...
Powers of 10 Terrence J. Sejnowski Computational Neuroscientist; Francis Crick Professor, the...	Uncertainty Lawrence M. Krauss Theoretical Physicist; Foundation Professor, School of...
Scientists Should Be Scientists Gregory Paul Independent Researcher; Author, The Princeton Field Guide...	Cumulative Error Jaron Lanier Computer Scientist; Musician; Author, Who Owns The Future?
Scale Analysis Giulio Boccaletti Chief Strategy Officer of The Nature Conservancy; Author,...	Truth is a Model Neil Gershenfeld Physicist, Director, MIT's Center for Bits and Atoms;...
Designing Your Mind Don Tapscott Chairman of the think tank nGenera Insight and an Adjunct...	Fixed-Action Patterns: Using The Study Of Animal Instinct As A Metaphor For Human Behavior Irene Pepperberg Research Associate & Lecturer, Harvard; Author, Alex...
Find That Frame William H. Calvin Theoretical Neurobiologist; Affiliate Professor Emeritus,...	An Assertion Is Often An Empirical Question, Settled By Collecting Evidence Susan Fiske Eugene Higgins Professor, Department of Psychology,...
Keystone Consumer Jennifer Jacquet Associate Professor of Environmental Studies, NYU; Author,...	Anthropocene Thinking Daniel Goleman Psychologist; Author (with Richard Davidson), Altered Traits
Contingent Superorganism Jonathan Haidt Social Psychologist; Thomas Cooley Professor of Ethical...	Recursive Structure David Gelernter Computer Scientist, Yale University; Chief Scientist,...
Think Bottom Up, Not Top Down Michael Shermer Publisher, Skeptic magazine; Monthly Columnist, Scientific...	Holism Nicholas A. Christakis Sterling Professor of Social and Natural Science, Yale...
Findex Marti Hearst Computer Scientist, UC Berkeley, School of Information;...	Cycles Daniel C. Dennett Philosopher; Austin B. Fletcher Professor of Philosophy, Co...
Sensory Desktop Donald D. Hoffman Cognitive Scientist, UC, Irvine; Author, The Case Against...	Science's Methods Aren't Just For Science Mark Henderson Head of Communications, Wellcome Trust; Author, The Greek...
The Expanding In-Group Marcel Kinsbourne Neurologist and Cognitive Neuroscientist, The New School;...	Suspending Disbelief Linda Stone Hi-Tech Industry Consultant; Former Executive at Apple...
The Copernican Principle Samuel Arbesman Complexity Scientist; Scientist in Residence at Lux Capital...	The Rational Unconscious Alison Gopnik Psychologist, UC, Berkeley; Author, The Gardener and the...
Base rate Keith Devlin Mathematician; Executive Director, H-STAR Institute,...	Constraint Satisfaction Stephen M. Kosslyn Founding Dean, Minerva Schools at the Keck Graduate...
Negative Capability Is A Profound Therapy Richard Foreman Playwright & Director; Founder, The Ontological-...	Open Systems Thomas A. Bass Professor of English and Journalism, State University of...
Technologies Have Biases Douglas Rushkoff Media Analyst; Documentary Writer; Author, Throwing Rocks...	Systemic Equilibrium Matthew Ritchie Artist
Subselves and the Modular Mind Douglas T. Kenrick Professor of Psychology, Arizona State University; Author,...	Randomness Charles Seife Professor of Journalism, New York University; Former...
Conceptual Metaphor George Lakoff Fellow at The Rockridge Institute; Author, The Little Blue...	Cognitive Load Nicholas G. Carr Author, Utopia is Creepy
PERMA Martin Seligman Professor and Director, Positive Psychology Center,...	Haecceity Bruce Hood Chair of Developmental Psychology in Society, University of...
The World is Unpredictable Rudy Rucker Mathematician; Computer Scientist; Cyberpunk Pioneer;...	The Multiverse Nicholas Humphrey Emeritus Professor of Psychology, London School of...
Pragmamorphism Emanuel Derman Professor, Financial Engineering, Columbia University;...	Skeptical Empiricism Gerald Holton Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics and Professor of the...
The Pointless Universe Sean Carroll Theoretical Physicist, Caltech; Author, Something Deeply...	The Mirror Fallacy Christian Keysers Neuroscientist; Director, Social Brain Lab, Netherlands...
A Sense Of Proportion About Fear Of The Unknown Aubrey de Grey Gerontologist; Chief Science Officer, SENS Foundation;...	TANSTAAFL Robert Provine Professor Emeritus, University of Maryland, Baltimore...
Externalities Robert Kurzban Psychologist, UPenn; Director, Penn Laboratory for...	Gedankenexperiment Gino Segre Professor of Physics & Astronomy, University of...
The Edge of the Circle Haim Harari Physicist, former President, Weizmann Institute of Science...	Antifragility â€” orâ€” The Property Of Disorder-Loving Systems Nassim Nicholas Taleb Distinguished Professor of Risk Engineering, New York...
Experimentation Roger Schank CEO, Socratic Arts Inc.; John Evans Professor Emeritus of...	Graceful SHA's Richard Nisbett Theodore M. Newcomb Distinguished University Professor of...
Structured Serendipity Jason Zweig Journalist; Personal Finance Columnist, The Wall Street...	A Probability Distribution John Allen Paulos professor of mathematics at Temple University
Inference To The Best Explanation Rebecca Newberger Goldstein Philosopher, Novelist; Recipient, 2014 National Humanities...	Analog Computing George Dyson Science Historian; Author, Analogia
Each Of Us Is Ordinary, And Yet One Of A Kind Samuel Barondes Professor of Neurobiology and Psychiatry, UCSF; Author,...	The Law of Comparative Advantage Dylan Evans Founder and CEO of Projection Point; Author, The Utopia...
Possibility Spaces: Thinking Beyond Cause and Effect W. Daniel Hillis Physicist, Computer Scientist, Co-Founder, Applied...	Kaleidoscopic Discovery Engine Clifford Pickover Author, The Math Book, The Physics Book, and The Medical...
GIGO Milford H. Wolpoff Professor of Anthropology, University of Michigan; Adjunct...	To Curate Hans Ulrich Obrist Curator, Serpentine Gallery, London; Editor: A Brief...
Positive-Sum Games Steven Pinker Johnstone Family Professor, Department of Psychology;...	How Would You Disprove Your Viewpoint?! Howard Gardner Hobbs Professor of Cognition and Education, Harvard...