The Half-Life of Facts
Why Everything We Know Has an Expiration Date. Current, 2012.
A brief summary of The Half-Life of Facts
An in-depth examination of how and why knowledge fluctuates, the half-life of information, and the effect these changes have over science, culture, and our everyday lives.
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Who should read The Half-Life of Facts
Educators • students • scientists • historians • sociologists
About the author of The Half-Life of Facts
Samuel Arbesman holds a PhD in computational biology from Cornell University. His work has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, and Wired magazine. He is the former Senior Scholar at the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation and previous Research Fellow at Harvard University. Currently, Arbesman is Scientist in Residence at Lux Capital, a venture capital firm.
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