Why?: What Makes Us Curious

by Mario Livio

Book Overview

Astrophysicist and author Mario Livio investigates perhaps the most human of all our characteristics--curiosity--as he explores our innate desire to know why . Experiments demonstrate that people are more distracted when they overhear a phone conversation--where they can know only one side of the dialogue--than when they overhear two people talking and know both sides. Why does half a conversation make us more curious than a whole conversation? In...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1476792097
• ISBN13: 9781476792095
• Release Date: July 2017
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.1"