The Half-Life of Facts: Why Everything We Know Has an Expiration Date

The Half-Life of Facts: Why Everything We Know Has an Expiration Date

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A book by Samuel Arbesman that explores how facts and knowledge change over time, much like radioactive decay. Arbesman discusses the obsolescence of information across various fields, from science to medicine, and the implications for how we acquire and use knowledge.

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There's a great book by a guy named Sam Arbisman called The Half-Life of Facts where he talks about facts themselves as kind of being similar to like radioactive isotope decay.

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The Half-Life of Facts
Sam Arbesman
knowledge decay
facts expiration

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"The book is explicitly mentioned by name and attributed to Sam Arbesman, with its core concept about facts having a "decay function" being discussed."

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