Curious : the desire to know and why your future depends on it /

"Today it seems we have the world at our fingertips. Thanks to smartphones and tools such as Google and Wikipedia, we're able to feed any aspect of our curiosity instantly. But does this mean we are actually becoming more curious? Absolutely not. In Curious, Ian Leslie argues that true cur...

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Main Author: Leslie, Ian, 1972- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Basic Books, 2014
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