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Discover the universe's last unknowns -- here are the unanswered questions that obsess the world's finest minds" ( The Guardian ) Featuring a foreword by DANIEL KAHNEMAN, Nobel Prize-winning author of Thinking, Fast and Slow This is a little book of profound questions ( only 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 The Last Unknowns, John Brockman, publisher of Edge.org, asks "a mind-blowing gathering of innovative thinkers" ( Booklist ): "What is 'The Last Question,' your last question, the question for which you will be remembered?" Featuring the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Guns, Germs, and Steel JARED DIAMON, Nobel Prize-winning University of Chicago economist RICHARD THALE, Harvard psychologist STEVEN PINKE, religion scholar ELAINE PAGEL, author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics CARLO ROVELL, Booker Prize-winning novelist IAN McEWA, neuroscientist SAM HARRI, philosopher DANIEL C. DENNET, MIT theorist SHERRY TURKL, decoder of the human genome J. CRAIG VENTE, The Coddling of the American Mind author JONATHAN HAID, Nobel Prize-winning physicist FRANK WILCZE, UC Berkeley psychologist ALISON GOPNIC, philosopher REBECCA NEWBERGER GOLDSTEI, New York Times columnist CARL ZIMME, MIT cosmologist MAX TEGMAR, Whole Earth founder STEWART BRAN, "Marginal Revolution" economist TYLER COWE, Anatomy of Love author HELEN FISHE, Noble Prize-winning NASA physicist JOHN C. MATHE, psychologist JUDITH RICH HARRI, Princeton physicist FREEMAN DYSO, musician BRIAN EN, environmental scientist JENNIFER JACQUE, Duke economist DAN ARIEL, Oxford philosopher A. C. GRAYLIN, Harvard cosmologist LISA RANDAL, anthropologist MARY CATHERINE BATESO, Emotional Intelligence author DANIEL GOLEMA, Harvard genticist GEORGE CHURC, Blueprint author NICHOLAS A. CHRISTAKI, Stanford political scientist MARGARET LEV, economist ALAN S. BLINDE, publisher TIM O'REILL, theoretical cosmologist JANNA LEVI, Serpentine Gallery owner HANS ULRICH OBRIS, Wired founding editor KEVIN KELL, Cambridge astrophysicist MARTIN REES, and more than 200 others.".