Arthur Morey
Author
Language
English
Description
Astrophysicist and author Mario Livio investigates perhaps the most human of all our characteristics-curiosity-in this lively, expert, and definitely not dumbed-down account 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...