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Why? : What Makes Us Curious by Mario Livio; Overdrive Inc is a education title available to read on EtoBox.
What is Why? : What Makes Us Curious about?
Astrophysicist and author Mario Livio investigates perhaps the most human of all our characteristics—curiosity—as he explores our innate desire to know <i>why</i>.<br><br>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?<br> <br>In the ever-fascinating <i>Why? </
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- Author
- Mario Livio; Overdrive Inc
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster
- Published
- 2017
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781476792101
- Category
- education
- Subjects
- Science, History, Personality
- Rating
- 3.37 / 5 (119 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-13
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