'Third Millennium Thinking': How to use scientific tools to solve everyday problems
Nobel Prize-winning physicist Saul Perlmutter, philosophy professor John Campbell, and social psychologist Robert MacCoun teach a course at the University of California Berkeley on using scientific tools to approach everyday problems. They’ve now turned that course into the book “Third Millennium Thinking: Creating Sense in a World of Nonsense.”
Perlmutter joins host Scott Tong to talk about the book.
Book excerpt: ‘Third Millennium Thinking: Creating Sense in a World of Nonsense’
By Saul Perlmutter, John Campbell and Robert MacCoun
INTRODUCTION
In just the past few decades, those of us who live in the internet-connected world have obtained access to a nearly unfathomable amount of information. We can click a link and instantly gain insight into whatever we’re curious about, whether it’s treatment options for a particular health condition, how to build a solar generator, or the political history of Malta. On the other hand, sometimes there is so much
