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Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don’t Know
By Adam Grant
Intelligence is usually seen as the ability to think and learn, but in a rapidly changing world, there’s another set of cognitive skills that might matter more: the ability to rethink and unlearn. Nobel Prize winner Daniel Kahneman called this book “brilliant.”
Follow Your Gut: The Enormous Impact of Tiny Microbes
By Rob Knight, with Brendan Buhler
Allergies, obesity, acne: these are just a few of the conditions that may be caused—and someday cured—by the microscopic life inside us. How does this groundbreaking science influence your health, mood and more? Pioneering scientist Rob Knight pairs with award-winning science journalist Brendan Buhler to explain why these new findings matter to everyone.
Super Cells: Building With Biology
By Nina Tandon and Mitchell Joachim
This eye-popping tour of the new biological frontier describes the tantalizing array of inventions already being created with nature’s elemental building block: the cell. The authors, daring inventors in their own right, contend that we’re entering a new technological era, one in which we can create smarter technologies by making cells our partners in design. And they confront the thorny questions that come with playing with the power of life.
The Upstream Doctors
By Rishi Manchanda
In this eye-opening book, physician Rishi Manchanda explains why our health may depend even more on our social and environmental settings than on cutting-edge medical care. Manchanda argues that the future of our health depends on growing a new generation of health care practitioners who look upstream for the sources of our problems, rather than simply symptomatic relief. If our high-cost, sick-care system is to become a high-value, health care system, the Upstreamists will show us the way.
City 2.0: The Habitat of the Future and How to Get There
Edited by TED Books in collaboration with The Atlantic Cities
As the world’s cities balloon to more than 6 billion inhabitants by mid-century, we face both a dire emergency and a tremendous opportunity. This book celebrates 12 promising, provocative responses to this challenge, in realms ranging from transportation to food to art. It asks and begins to answer: How can we transform cities to be sustainable, efficient, beautiful, and invigorating to the human soul? And practically speaking, how do we get from here to there?