The Last Unknowns: Deep, Elegant, Profound Unanswered Questions about the Univer

<p><strong>Discover the universe's last unknowns--here are the unanswered questions that obsess the world's finest minds (<em>The Guardian</em>)</strong></p><p>Featuring a foreword by DANIEL KAHNEMAN, Nobel Prize-winning author of <em>Thinking, Fast and Slow</em></p><p></p><p>This is a little book of profound questions (<em>only</em> questions )--unknowns that address the secrets of our world, our civilization, the meaning of life. Here are the deepest riddles that have fascinated, obsessed, and haunted the greatest thinkers of our time, including Nobel laureates, cosmologists, philosophers, economists, prize-winning novelists, religious scholars, and more than 250 leading scientists, artists, and theorists. In <em>The Last Unknowns, </em>John Brockman, publisher of Edge.org, asks a mind-blowing gathering of innovative thinkers (<em>Booklist</em>): What is 'The Last Question, ' <em>your </em>last question, the question for which you will be remembered?</p><p>Featuring the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of <em>Guns, Germs, and Steel</em> JARED DIAMOND - Nobel Prize-winning University of Chicago economist RICHARD THALER - Harvard psychologist<strong> </strong>STEVEN PINKER - religion scholar ELAINE PAGELS - author of <em>Seven Brief Lessons on Physics</em> CARLO ROVELLI - Booker Prize-winning novelist IAN McEWAN - neuroscientist<strong> </strong>SAM HARRIS - philosopher DANIEL C. DENNETT - MIT theorist SHERRY TURKLE - decoder of the human genome J. CRAIG VENTER - <em>The Coddli