Andrew Robinson reviews five of the best science picks.
“The human mental time machine is a complex and powerful device that allows us to imagine virtually whatever, wherever, whenever,” remarks this thoughtful, far-ranging study of foresight by three cognitive scientists. Among their numerous lively examples, from Palaeolithic to modern times, are children whom the group observed responding to a reward being dropped down a tube with two exits.
He suggests a “punctuated deterrence” approach that targets the interests of totalitarian nations.In 1923, Edwin Hubble’s observations of the Andromeda nebula proved that there were galaxies beyond the Milky Way. Astroparticle physicist Roberto Battiston compares such revelations to humanity’s changing understanding of dawn. Rather than daybreak “running to meet us”, we now know that Earth’s rotation moves us towards it.
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