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

This book by Samuel Arbesman came up once on Tim Ferriss in the episodes we index. That mention was a genuine on-air recommendation, not just a passing reference. The people who brought it up: Maurice Ashley. Every occurrence below links to the episode page and to the exact second it was said on YouTube.

"A new approach to uderstanding the ever-changing information that bombards us. Arbesman is an expert in scientometrics, literally the science of science--how we know what we know. It turns out that knowledge in most fields evolves in systematic and predictable ways, and understanding that evolution can enormously powerful"--