2009
Edge
290—June 19, 2009
THE THIRD CULTURE
THE SIMPLIFIER
A Talk with John Bargh
WHAT'S NEXT
Very Short List
Arts & Letters Daily
Los Angeles times
THE REALITY CLUB
The Big Accomodationism Debate (Continued):
• Russell Blackford: NOMA no more - the great accommodationism debate
• Jerry Coyne: Brown + Ruse vs. Myers: Are atheists responsible for creationism?
• PZ Myers: A little sympathy for the snookered
• Coyne: Science vs. theism: a debate with Kenneth Miller. Part II: Out of context
BEYOND EDGE
• Lawrence Krauss takes on the God Squad at the World Science Festival
• Clay Shirky's Ted Talk at the State Department: How Twitter can make history
• PZ Myers on Stephen Jay Gould and the Politics of Evolution
• Antony Valenti goes beyond the pragmatic "shut up and calculate" mentality that stifled attempts to probe what Quantum Mecanics Really Means
• Look out, creationists. There’s a new sheriff in town, and he talks like an Oxford don
(7,100 words)
Edge
289—June 12, 2009
THE THIRD CULTURE
HOW DOES OUR LANGUAGE SHAPE THE WAY WE THINK?
By Lera Boroditsky
NEW SCIENTIST
Top scientists predict the future of science
By Amanda Gefter
THE REALITY CLUB
The Big Accomodationism Debate
Jerry Coyne, Chris Mooney, "Erratic Synapse", Kenneth Miller, Jason Rosenhouse, P.Z. Myers
James O'Donnell, Marc D. Hauser on "The Impending Demise of the University"
BEYOND EDGE
• Daniel Engber's Edge Question response to "What have you changed your mind about?" begets a five-part series on animal research for Slate
• Carolyn Porco's Cassini Imaging Team releases "a series of images and movies, dramatic and stark, revealing the waves on the edges of the Keeler gap in Saturn's A ring to be mile-high giants, towering over the rings surrounding them"
• Don Tapscott talks about his Edge Feature, "The Impending Demise of the University", on Huffington Post. 91 comments in 18 hours
• "Accommodation" debate: posts in chronological order (suggested presentation)
• Nicholas Kristof's NYT column on Richard Nisbett's "Intelligence and How to Get It"
• Alan Alda, Edward O. Wilson at World Science Festival opening
• Dennis Overbye at Brian Greene's Cosmic Circus
• Daniel C. Dennett and Richard Dawkins The Genius of Charles Darwin: The Uncut Interviews
• Steven Pinker and Richard Dawkins The Genius of Charles Darwin: The Uncut Interviews
(8,250 words)
Edge
288—June 4, 2009
THE THIRD CULTURE
THE IMPENDING DEMISE OF THE UNIVERSITY
By Don Tapscott
THE REALITY CLUB
Stewart Brand, Alun Anderson, Laurence C. Smith on "Will We Decamp for the Nortern Rim?" By Laurence C. Smith
ARTICLES OF NOTE
The New York Times: Wisdom in a Cleric’s Garb; Why Not a Lab Coat Too? Learning to Accept
By Dennis Overbye
Newsweek: Can Admitting a Wrong Make It Right?
By Christopher Dickey
Science: RETROSPECTIVE: John Maddox (1925–2009)
By Nicholas Wade
The Wall Street Journal: Black Swan Fund Makes a Big Bet on Inflation
By Scott Patterson
The New York Times: A Human Language Gene Changes the Sound of Mouse Squeaks
By Nicholas Wade
Newsweek: Let's Talk About God
By Lisa Miller
The New York Times: Would You Slap Your Father? If So, You're a Liberal
By Nicholas D. Kristof
The New York Times: Guest Column: Guest Column: Loves Me, Loves Me Not (Do the Math)
By Steven Strogatz
The New York Times: Why Are Humans Different From All Other Apes? It's the Cooking, Stupid
By Dwight Garner
(11,675 words)
Edge
287—May 27, 2009
THE THIRD CULTURE
WHAT'S NEXT?
Dispatches on the Future of Science
Edited by Max Brockman
WILL WE DECAMP FOR THE NORTHERN RIM?
By Laurence C. Smith
ARTICLES OF NOTE
The New York Times: Why Are Humans Different From All Other Apes? It’s the Cooking, Stupid
By Dwight Garner
BBC News: Eno artwork lights up opera house
The New York Times: Learning to Accept the Unknowable
Dr. Nathan Wolfe
Fast Company: 100 Most Creative People in Business—43. Neri Oxman
By Anya Kamenetz
Interview Magazine: Neri Oxman
By John Ortved
The New York Times: The Coming Superbrain
By John Markoff
WIRED Magazine: Secret of Googlenomics: Data-Fueled Recipe Brews Profitability
By Steven Levy
WIRED Magazine: The New New Economy: More Startups, Fewer Giants, Infinite Opportunity
By Chris Anderson
WIRED Magazine: The New Socialism: Global Collectivist Society Is Coming Online
By Kevin Kelly
Los Angeles Times: Why is Charlotte Allen so mad at atheists?
By P.Z. Myers
Bloggingheads TV: Science Saturday: Cooking and Violence Edition
John Horgan, Richard Wrangham
(10,350 words)
Edge
286—May 21, 2009
THE THIRD CULTURE
CHIMERAS OF EXPERIENCE
A Conversation with Jonah Lehrer
SEED CELEBRATES THE QUESTIONS C.P. SNOW RAISED 50 YEARS AGO BY ASKING: WHERE ARE WE NOW?
ARTICLES OF NOTE
The New York Times: What You Don’t Know Makes You Nervous
By Daniel Gilbert
The New York Times: Guest Column: Math and the City
By Steven Strogatz
The New York Times—Tierney Lab: Message in What We Buy, but Nobody's Listening
By John Tierney
The Reason Project Launches Its Website
Publishers Weekly: Rip My Book, Please
By Andrew Richard Albanese
Newsweek: Science Cult
By John Horgan
Newsweek: I, Robot
By Daniel Lyons
PBS—Bill Moyers Journal: Daniel Goleman explains to Bill Moyers how better educated consumers can help build a sustainable economy
Nature: How much reason do you want?
By Philip Ball
Los Angeles Times: Atheists: No God, no reason, just whining
By Charlotte Allen
SEED: Alison Gopnik Describes New Experiments in Developmental Psychology That Show Everything We Think We Know About Babies Is Wrong
By Evan Lerner
New Scientist: How to map the multiverse
by Anil Ananthaswamy
The Washington Post: paidContent.org - Condé Nast's Carey And Wired's Anderson: Pursuing The 'Fremium' Model
By David Kaplan
Cosmos: Rage of reason
By Robin McKie
(11,700 words)
Edge
285—May 15, 2009
THE THIRD CULTURE
THE ECONOMIC MANHATTAN PROJECT — THE VIDEOS
THE AGE OF PANDEMICS
By Larry Brilliant
ARTICLES OF NOTE
True/Slant: Religion, agnostics, and the cure for baldness
By Matt Tiabbi
The New York Times: The American Press on Suicide Watch
By Frank Rich
The Boston Globe: Perfectly Happy
By Drake Bennett
Pharyngula: The Templeton conundrum
By PZ Myers
Prospect: A living art reborn
By Brian Eno
Süddeutsche Zeitung: "Seid nicht böse!"
Von Alex Rühle
Der Spiegel: Heute in den Feuilletons
Business Day: There is no question more important to us than our mortality
By Michel Pireu
Now On PBS: Predicting Pandemics
The Reason Project: Truckling to the Faithful
By Jerry Coyne
The New Yorker: Brain Games
By John Colapinto
Pharyngula: The Eagleton Delusion
By PZ Myers
The New York Times: God Talk
By Stanley Fish
Nature: The worst-case scenario
By Stephen Schneider
Nature: Climate change: Too much of a bad thing
By Gavin Schmidt & David Archer
Nature: Q&A: Larry Brilliant
Declan Butler
Nature: Obama says more money
By Jeff Tollefson
The Boston Globe: Beyond Belief
By Nathan Schneider
(8,200 words)
Edge
284—May 7, 2009
ON THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE PUBLICATION OF
C.P. SNOW'S REDE LECTURE, "THE TWO CULTURES"
An Edge Special Edition
Edge
283—May 1, 2009
THE THIRD CULTURE
MADDOX BY HIS SUCCESSOR
By Philip Campbell
HOW TO PREVENT A PANDEMIC
By Nathan Wolfe
ARTICLES OF NOTE
Nature: Obituary: John Maddox (1925-2009)
By Walter Gratzer
The Boston Globe: Inside the Baby Mind
By Jonah Lehrer
ABC News: Good Morning America: Swine Flu Hits Mexico
Dr. Nathan Wolfe
Nature: Tech Titans Plan to Save the Planet
New York Times: Editorial: Photos from Saturn
New York Times: Don't Waste Time Cutting Emissions
By Bjorn Lomborg
(6,000 words)
Edge
282—April 24, 2009
THE THIRD CULTURE
EDGE LONDON DINNER — 2009 PHOTO ALBUM
April 20, 2009 — Zilly Fish, London
LORD OF THE CLOUD
John Markoff and Clay Shirky Talk to David Gelernter
An Edge Roundtable
DO WOMEN HAVE BETTER EMPATHY THAN MEN?
Simon Baron-Cohen
ARTICLES OF NOTE
Newsweek: Truth and Consequences
By Daniel Goleman
Why Evolution Is True: Truckling to the Faithful: A Spoonful of Jesus Helps Darwin Go Down
By Jerry Coyne
New York Times: A Conversation With Richard Wrangham
By Claudia Dreifus
Wall Street Journal: How the E-Book Will Change the Way We Read and Write
By Steven Johnson
New Republic: Nudge-ocracy
by Franklin Foer and Noam Scheiber
The New York Times Magazine: The Green Mind: Why Isn’t the Brain Green?
By Jon Gertner
The New York Times Magazine: Domains | Stewart Brand: On the Waterfront
By Edward Lewine
The New York Times Magazine: Natural Happiness
By Paul Bloom
Publishers Weekly: The Original Joy of Cooking:PW Talks with Author Richard Wrangham
by Will Boisvert
Huffington Post: The Moral Measure of a Civilization Is in Its Treatment of Enemies
By Scott Atran
The Australian: No, we don't need five planets
By Bjorn Lomborg
The Wall Street Journal: Deal Journal: Financial Meltdown: The Ultimate Human Error
The Wall Street Journal: Firm Lets Others Choose Startups
By Jessica E. Vascellaro
Newsweek: It Doesn't Have To Hurt
By Richard Thaler
Physics World: Cover Story: In search of the black swan
(15,300 words)
Edge
281—April 15, 2009
THE THIRD CULTURE
PRESSING QUESTIONS FOR OUR CENTURY
A Talk With AC Grayling
SIR JOHN MADDOX
1925-2009
COMPLEXITY AND CATASTROPHE
A Talk With John Maddox
TEN PRINCIPLES FOR A BLACK-SWAN-ROBUST WORLD
By Nassim Nicholas Taleb
ARTICLES OF NOTE
Arts & Letters Daily: Sir John Maddox, skeptical prophet who enlivened Nature, is dead at the age of 83
The New York Times: How to Raise Our I.Q.
By Nicholas Kristof
The Guardian: John Maddox1925-2009
By Philip Campbell
The New York Times: John Maddox, Editor Who Enlivened Nature, Is Dead at 83
By William Grimes
Nature: John Maddox 1925-2009
By Philip Campbell
The Sunday Times: Open Minds: Atheists can celebrate the soul at Easter too, says the psychologist Nicholas Humphrey
The Hindu: Mirroring the World
By Sruthi Krishnan
The Korea Times: What Are You Optimistic About?
The Maui News: Haku Mo'olelo
By Edwin Tanjiy
Science: Darwin Applies to Medical School
By Elizabeth Pennisi
Science Friday: Live from ASU's Origins Symposium
(15,300 words)
Edge
280—April 10, 2009
THE THIRD CULTURE
"KRAUSSFEST 2009"
At Origins of Life Symposium — A.S.U.
THE QUICK BUCK JUST BECAME QUICKER
By Heinz Pagels
THE REALITY CLUB
Jaron Lanier, Joseph Traub, and Lee Smolin on Heinz Pagels
ARTICLES OF NOTE
Scientific American: Do Parents Matter?
Johnah Lehrer interviews Judith Rich Harris
The New York Times: The End of Philosophy
By David Brooks
The Wall Street Journal: Jesse Dylan Experiments With Science
By Amy Dockser Marcus
The New York Times: Memories: Good, Bad and Erasable
By Jim Dwyer
New Statesman: Religion: The Tony Blair Foundation
By Richard Dawkins
New Scientist: Existential Vertigo Over Human Origins
By Amanda Gefter
The New York Times: Brain Power
By Benedict Carey
TIME: The TIME 100: Richard Nisbett
TIME: Lured Toward the Right Choice
By Barbara Kiviat
TIME: How Obama Is Using the Science of Change
(11,350 words)
Edge
279—April 1, 2009
THE THIRD CULTURE
THE END OF UNIVERSAL RATIONALITY
A Talk With Yochai Benkler
EDGE VIDEO
THE TRADESCANT'S ARK EXPERIMENT
Tim Taylor
THE REALITY CLUB
MUST WE ALWAYS CATER TO THE FAITHFUL WHEN TEACHING SCIENCE?
By Jerry Coyne
ON "NEWSPAPERS AND THINKING THE UNTHINKABLE"By Clay Shirky
Marc Frons
ARTICLES OF NOTE
Newsweek: Rage Against the Art Gene
By Jeremy McCarter
The Economist: The Ethics of DNA databasing
By J. Craig Venter
New Humanist: Book Review: Questions of Truth: God, Science and Belief by John Polkinghorne and Nicholas Beale
By AC Grayling
Financial Analysts Journal: Models
By Emanuel Derman
The Times: Nature V Nurture? Please Don't Ask
By Mark Henderson
The New York Times: Vast Spy System Loots Computers in 103 Countries
By John Markoff
The New York Times: Sunday Book Review: Get Smart
By Jim Holt
New York Times Magazine: Cover Story: The Civil Heretic
By Nicholas Dawidoff
The New York Times: Wikipedia Exploring Fact City
By Noam Cohen
TED Talks: Nathan Wolfe: Hunting the Next Killer Virus
Salon: Two Avant-Gardists Join Artistic Forces
By Larry Blumenfeld
Reason Online: 21st-Century Mind
Howard Gardner Interviewed by Jonah Lehrer
Barnes & Noble Review: Why Evolution Is True
By AC Grayling
(12,300 words)
Edge
278—March 25, 2009
THE THIRD CULTURE
BY THE LATE JOHN BROCKMAN
40th Anniversary Edition
THE NEW YORK TIMES SUNDAY BOOK REVIEW
Our Two Cultures
By Peter Dizikes
EDGE VIDEO
SOME LIKE IT HOT
Steve Jones
THE REALITY CLUB
ON "NEWSPAPERS AND THINKING THE UNTHINKABLE" By Clay Shirky
Nicholas Carr, Martin Wattenberg & Fernanda Viégas
ARTICLES OF NOTE
New York Review of Books: Leaping Into the Great Unknown
By Freeman Dyson
The Hindu: Mirroring The World
By Sruthi Krishnan
Scientific American: How To Prevent The Next Pandemic
By Nathan Wolfe
Popular Science: Who Protects The Internet?
By James Geary
Arthur Magazine: Let It Die
By Douglas Rushkoff
Physics World: Cosmic Visions
Pharyngula: The Fertilized Egg Is Not A Human Life
By PZ Myers
CBS: The Big Bang Theory
By Doctor George Smoot
Wall Street Journal: Two Avant-Gardists Join Artistic Forces
By Larry Blumenfeld
SEED Magazine: Paul Steinhardt + Peter Galison
Seed Salon
Scientific American: Building The 21st-Century Mind
Howard Gardner Interviewed by Jonah Lehrer
Big Think: Daniel Dennett Discusses The Problem Of Robotic Warfare
(6,000 words)
Edge
277—March 17, 2009
THE THIRD CULTURE
NEWSPAPERS AND THINKING THE UNTHINKABLE
By Clay Shirky
TED TALK: DAN DENNETT
Cute, sexy, sweet and funny — an evolutionary riddle
SERPENTINE-EDGE EXPERIMENT MARATHON
A COOPERATIVE FORAGING EXPERIMENT—LESSONS FROM ANTS
Seirian Sumner
Edge Video
ARTICLES OF NOTE
The Wall Street Journal: Islamic Creationist Stirs Darwinian Struggle
By Andrew Higgins
The New York Times: In One Ear and Out the Other
By Natalie Angier
TIME:10 Ideas Changing The World Right Now
By Brian Walsh
Washington Post: A Conversation With Nassim Taleb
Financial Times: How The Bank Bonuses Let Us All Down
By Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The New York Times: The Looting Of America's Coffers
By David Leonhardt
The Independent: Belief And The Brain's 'God Spot'
By Steve Connor
The New York Times: They Tried To Outsmart Wall Street
By Dennis Overbye
Foundational Questions In Physics & Cosmology: Exploring The Universe Of Possibilites
The New York Times: G.O.P. Senators Say Some Big Banks Can Be Allowed To Fail
By J. David Goodman and Brian Knowlton
Bloomberg: arvard Scientists' Discovery Opens Door To Synthetic Life
By John Lauerman
The New York Times: For Twitter C.E.O., Well-Orchestrated Accidents
By Evan Williams
The Telegraph: Charles Darwin And Craig Venter: How Different Could Two Men Be?
By Emma Hartley
Prospect: Think Big
By Brian Eno
New Scientist: Is Time An Illusion?
By Amanda Gefter
(9,000 words)
Edge
276—March 4, 2009
THE THIRD CULTURE
IS THERE A HIGGS?
A Talk With Brian Cox
Edge video
SERPENTINE~EDGE EXPERIMENT MARATHON
Lewis Wolpert: HOW OUR LIMBS ARE PATTERNED LIKE THE FRENCH FLAG
Edge video
EDGE IN THE NEWS
GLOBAL ROUNDUP: Gazeteport.com (Turkey), Salzburger Nachtrichen (Austria), HP/D (Germany), Ohmy News (Korea), Business Day (South Africa), Pagina|12 (Spain), La Repubblica (Italy), La Stampa (Italy), Vrij Nederland (Netherlands), El Periodico.com (Spain), Il Sole 24 Ore (Italy)
IN THE NEWS
Boston Globe: Learning From Slums
By Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow
American Scientist: Short Takes on Three Books
By Greg Ross
The Times: A handy little guide to small talk in the Stone Age
BBC News: 'Oldest English words' identified
The New York Times: Scandanavian Nonbelievers, Which Is Not to Say Atheists
By Peter Steinfels
Richard Dawkins.net: The Four Horsemen HD
Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, Christopher Hitchens, Daniel Dennett
The Economist: Unfinished Business
The Sun: Computing the Cost
By Arnie Cooper
TIME: Why Parents (Still) Don't Matter
By Kathleen Kingsbury
Washington Note: The Obama Code
By George Lakoff
(10,400 words)
Edge
275—February 24, 2009
THE THIRD CULTURE
ART AND HUMAN REALITY
A Talk With Denis Dutton
Introduction By Steven Pinker
Edge video
SERPENTINE~EDGE EXPERIMENT MARATHON
Armand Leroi: THE SONG OF SONGS
Edge video
TED TALKS (video)
Juan Enriquez: BEYOND THE CRISIS, MINDBOGGLING SCIENCE AND THE ARRIVAL OF HOMO EVOLUTIS
THE REALITY CLUB
Michael Shermer on DOES THE EMPIRICAL NATURE OF SCIENCE CONTRADICT THE REVELATORY NATURE OF FAITH? by Jerry Coyne
IN THE NEWS
Newsweek: The Evolution of Art
By James Q. Wilson
The Economist: What's Cooking
The Observer: Science Is Just One Gene Away From Defeating Religion
By Colin Blakemore
American Scientist: An Interview with Jerry Coyne
By Greg Ross
New Scientist: Darwin Was Right
By Daniel Dennett, Jerry Coyne, Richard Dawkins, and Paul Myers
Wall Street Journal: How I learned Not To Fear The Anti-God Squad
By Maurice O'Sullivan
The New Yorker: The Background Hum—Ian McEwan and the science of suspense
by Daniel Zalewski
Prospect: Obama's Moral Majority
By Jonathan Haidt
New Scientist: How Your Looks Betray Your Personality
By Roger Highfield, Richard Wiseman and Rob Jenkins
The Australian: The Masterly Blasphere
By Ian McEwan
Newsweek: Who Says Stress Is Bad For You?
By Mary Carmichael
The Colbert Report: Steven Pinker—February 11, 2009
Nature: Natural Selections 150 Years On
By Mark Pagel
Nature: Darwin 200: Should scientists study race and IQ?
A Debate—NO: Steven Rose—YES: Stephen Ceci & Wendy M. Williams
Nature: Darwin 200: Human Nature: The Remix
By Dan Jones
CNBC: Predicting Crisis: Dr. Doom & The Black Swan
By Nouriel Roubini and Nassim Taleb
Times Literary Supplement: Dawkins on Darwin
By Richard Dawkins
The Colbert Report: Denis Dutton—January 28, 2009
Bloggingheads.TV, Science Saturday: The Artistic Animal
By John Horgan & Denis Dutton
(12,150 words)
Edge
274—February 9, 2009
THE THIRD CULTURE
THE EDGE DINNER 2009
Long Beach, California—February 5, 2009—L'Opera
THE NEW YORKER
Where accuracy meets Flair
THE REALITY CLUB
Sam Harris, Steven Pinker on DOES THE EMPIRICAL NATURE OF SCIENCE CONTRADICT THE REVELATORY NATURE OF FAITH? by Jerry Coyne
IN THE NEWS
The Wall Street Journal, Boomtown: The "Billionaires' Dinner" at TED: Readjusted for the 2009 Econalyspe
By Kara Swisher
Washington Post: The Death of 'Rational Man'
By David Ignatius
The New York Times: When Humans Need a Nudge Toward Rationality
By Jeff Sommers
The New York Times: Education Is All in Your Mind
By Richard Nisbett
Bloomberg News: Taleb Says Nationalize Banks, You Can't Trust Them (Update2)
By Svenja O'Donnell and Francine Lacqua
Huffington Post: Gabbing with Gates: We Talk Meltdown, Malaria, Mosquitoes, and How Not Getting Enough Sleep Lowers His IQ
By Arianna Huffington
The New Scientist: Born believers: How your brain creates God
By Michael Brooks
The EconomistL Godless watch, continued
Science: Friendship as a Health Factor
Portfolio: 5 Steps to Fix the Banks
By Chris Anderson
Bloomberg News: Wall Street Bonuses May Go Way of Dodo Amid Bailouts (Update2)
By Dawn Kopecki and Christine Harper
(8,400 words)
Edge
273—January 30, 2009
THE THIRD CULTURE
WAITING FOR THE "FINAL PLAGUE"
A Talk with Nathan Wolfe
EDGE @ DLD: REFLECTIONS ON A CRISIS
Daniel Kahneman & Nassim Nicholas Taleb: A Conversation in Munich
(Moderator: John Brockman)
Edge Video
HOW WORDS COULD END A WAR
By Scott Atran and Jeremy Ginges
THE REALITY CLUB
George Dyson, Emanuel Derman, Karl W. Giberson, Kenneth R. Miller on DOES THE EMPIRICAL NATURE OF SCIENCE CONTRADICT THE REVELATORY NATURE OF FAITH? by Jerry Coyne
IN THE NEWS
Focus Online: Are Bankers Charlatans? (German Original: Sind Banker Scharlatane?)
By Ansgar Siemens, Focus online editor
Bloomberg News: Wall Street Bonuses May Go Way of Dodo Amid Bailouts (Update2)
By Dawn Kopecki and Christine Harper
The New York Times: Davos Diary: Nassim Taleb: "I Was Happy Lehman Went Bust"
Edited by Andrew Ross Sorkin
Bloomberg News: Taleb Says Nationalize Banks, You Can't Trust Them (Update2)
By Svenja O'Donnell and Francine Lacqua
The New Yorker: The Dystopians
By Ben McGrath
The Guardian: Those genius financial doomsayers: a round-up
By Stephen Moss
BBC News: How Bad Is The Crisis Going To Get
By Tim Weber
(11, 250 words)
Edge
272—January 23, 2009
THE THIRD CULTURE
COMING SOON:
EDGE @ DLD
REFLECTIONS ON A CRISIS
Daniel Kahneman & Nassim Nicholas Taleb: A Conversation in Munich
(Moderator: John Brockman)
DOES THE EMPIRICAL NATURE OF SCIENCE CONTRADICT THE REVELATORY NATURE OF FAITH?
By Jerry Coyne
An Edge Special Event
THE REALITY CLUB
Lawrence Krauss, Howard Gardner, Lisa Randall, Patrick Bateson, Daniel Everett, Daniel C. Dennett, Lee Smolin
OAF OF OFFICE
By Steven Pinker
IN THE NEWS
Publico Edição Lisboa: Cover Story—Sunday Magazine: Our Dog Will Become Our Cat
By Ana Gerschenfeld
Spiegel Online: Series Announcement: What Will change Everything
SEED: THE SEED SALON: Albert-Laszlo Barabasi + James Fowler
The New Republic: Striking a New Chord
By John McWhorter
The Sunday Herald-Sun (Melbourne): Quest for a sacred presence
By Bryan Patterson
The Wall Street Journal: The Brain, Your Honor, Will Take the Witness Stand
By Robert Lee Hotz
(6,700 words)
Edge
271—January 15, 2009
THE THIRD CULTURE
THE NOBEL PRIZE AND AFTER
A Talk with Frank Wilczek
NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE
My Genome, Myself
By Steven Pinker
NEW YORK TIMES
In Venting, a Computer Visionary Educates
By John Markoff
IN THE NEWS
El Mundo: Impíos deseos al empezar el año
By Arcadia Espada
Spiegel Online: Heute In Den Feuilletons
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung: Visionen der Wissenschaft: Wenn die Intelligenz von sich selber träumt
Von Thomas Thiel
Los Angeles Times: Here's a radical idea—getting fit is fun and contagious
By Carole Carson
The Guardian: The shape of things to come
By Tom Teodorczuk
The New York Times: London Journal: Atheists Send a Message, on 800 Buses
By Sarah Lyall
(8,600 words)
Edge
270—January 7, 2009
THE WORLD QUESTION CENTER
THE EDGE ANNUAL QUESTION 2009
151 Contributors (107,000 words)
WHAT WILL CHANGE EVERYTHING?
"What game-changing scientific ideas and developments do you expect to live to see?"
Press Coverage: Arts & Letters Daily, The Guardian, The Times, Xconomy, The Guardian (Science Blog), The Telegraph, O'Reilly Radar, NPR, The Dallas Morning News, Beliefnet, The Herald, Grist, Pharyngula, Newsweek, The News & Observer
JAMES LEE BYARS
A STUDY OF POSTERITY
By Thomas McEvilley
A profile of the late James Lee Byars, founder of The World Question Center
THIRD CULTURE
SELF AWARENESS: THE LAST FRONTIER
By V.S. Ramachandran
An Edge Original Essay
THE REALITY CLUB
On "The Last Frontier" by V.S. Ramachandran: Marc D. Hauser, V.S. Ramachandran, Timothy D. Wilson, Arnold Trehub, Robert Provine
IN THE NEWS
The New York Times: LONDON JOURNAL: Atheists Send a Message, on 800 Buses
By Sarah Lyall
Letras Libres: Science in the Street
By Ramón González & Férriz Y Diego Salazar
Newsweek: On Second Thought...
By Sharon Begley
The Chronicle Review: Not So Smart: Aliens, Computers, and Universities
By Josh Fischman
The Chronicle Review: Not So Smart II: The Internet Doesn't Work So Well
By Josh Fischman
The New York Times Magazine: Risk Mismanagement
By Joe Nocera
The Guardian: Darwin shouldn't be hijacked by New Atheists—he is an ethical inspiration
By Madeline Bunting
Boston Review: God
By Alex Byrne
Toronto Star: On second thought: Why being wrong can be a good thing
By Peter Calamai
Columbia Journalism Review: Interview with Clay Shirky
By Russ Juskalian
The Times: Why the Pope is right—and wrong
By Mark Henderson
The New York Times: Not-So-Lonely Planet
By Oliver Morton
Boston Globe: Ideas: Paradigm lost
By Drake Bennett
Scientific American: The Science of Spore—The "Evolution" of Gaming
By Ed Regis
Scientific American: Evolution of the Mind: 4 Fallacies of Psychology
By David J. Buller
3 Quarks Daily: The Union of Evolution and Design
By Jonathan Pfeiffer
Scientific American: Individual versus Group in Natural Selection
By Steve Mirsky
The Economist: Why we are, as we are
Prospect: A progressive manifesto
By David Bodanis
Boston Globe: A Talk with Lisa Randall: Particle Physics, the Aria
By Samuel P. Jacobs
Nature: Towards responsible use of cognitive-enhancing drugs by the healthy
By By Henry Greely, Barbara Sahakian, John Harris, Ronald C. Kessler, Michael Gazzaniga, Philip Campbell & Martha J. Farah
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