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A sterling roster of natural and social scientists in dialog with top-flight journalist Stefan Klein - shedding new light on the work, their lives, and what they still hope to discover. When acclaimed research writer Stefan Klein asks Nobel Prize-winning chemist Roald Hoffmann what packages scientists apart, Hoffmann says, "First and foremost, curiosity." With this collection of personal discussions with 19 of the world's best-known experts (including three Nobel Laureates), Klein allows us to listen in as today's leading minds expose what they still hope to discover - and how their paradigm-changing work entwines with their lives outside the lab. From the sports vehicle that physicist Steven Weinberg says helped him on his quest for "the theory of everything" to the jazz music artists who gave psychologist Alison Gopnik new understanding into boosting children, these experts explain how they find inspiration all over the place. Hear from renowned experts including: evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins on selfishness, anthropologist Sarah Hrdy on motherhood, primatologist Jane Goodall on pet animal action, neuroscientist V. S. Ramachandran on consciousness, geographer Jared Diamond on chance ever sold, and many other luminaries.
