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John Brockman: This will make you smarter (2012, Harper Perennial) 4 stars

This Will Make You Smarter presents brilliant but accessible ideas to expand every mind. What …

Review of 'This will make you smarter' on 'Storygraph'

5 stars

One of John Brockman's very inconsistent series of anthologies of commissioned articles on a topic. Some are awful, but this is excellent and if you read attentively, I'm sure it will make even you smarter. Some of the articles are, in my opinion, mistaken, but even almost all of those are at least wrong in a way that you will sharpen your thinking tools by arguing against them.
Over 100 articles on scientific thinking tools, grouped into themes, that you can apply to everyday thinking on anything to do with facts and policy.
My copy is so full of page-marker stickies I may as well just read again.