John Brockman’s The Third Culture (Simon & Schuster,
£9.99/$14, ISBN 0 684 81704 7) is out this month in Britain in
paperback. It’s a series of conversations by the likes of Lynn Margulis, Marvin
Minsky and Daniel Dennett. A mindstretcher.
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