The Half-Life of Facts: Why Everything We Know Has an Expiration Date

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The Half-Life of Facts: Why Everything We Know Has an Expiration Date - Paperback

The Half-Life of Facts: Why Everything We Know Has an Expiration Date - Paperback

by Samuel Arbesman
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by Samuel Arbesman (Author)

New insights from the science of science

Facts change all the time. Smoking has gone from doctor recommended to deadly. We used to think the Earth was the center of the universe and that the brontosaurus was a real dinosaur. In short, what we know about the world is constantly changing.

Samuel Arbesman shows us how knowledge in most fields evolves systematically and predictably, and how this evolution unfolds in a fascinating way that can have a powerful impact on our lives.

He takes us through a wide variety of fields, including those that change quickly, over the course of a few years, or over the span of centuries.

Author Biography

Samuel Arbesman is an applied mathematician and network scientist. He is a Senior Scholar at the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation and a fellow at the Institute for Quantitative Social Science at Harvard University. His writing has appeared in the New York Times, the Atlantic, Wired, New Scientist and the Boston Globe. He lives in Kansas City.

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Number of Pages: 256
Dimensions: 0.7 x 8.5 x 5.6 IN
Publication Date: August 27, 2013
ISBN9781591846512
Author Samuel Arbesman
PublisherPenguin Publishing Group
GenreEducation
FormatPaperback
PublishedAugust 2013
LanguageENG- English
Pages256
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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About Samuel Arbesman

Samuel Arbesman is Scientist in Residence at Lux Capital. In addition, he is an xLab senior fellow at Case Western Reserve University's Weatherhead School of Management and a research fellow at the Long Now Foundation. His writing has appeared in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and The Atlantic, and he was previously a contributing writer for Wired. His previous books are Overcomplicated: Technology at the Limits of Comprehension and The Half-Life of Facts: Why Everything We Know Has an Expiration Date. He holds a PhD in computational biology from Cornell University and lives in Cleveland with his family. The first computer he used was a Commodore VIC-20.

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