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
(13,300 words)

Edge 269—December 11, 2008

THE THIRD CULTURE
JOHN MARKOFF TO JOIN SCIENCE
New York Times Announcement
CAN SCIENCE HELP SOLVE THE ECONOMIC CRISIS?
By Mike Brown, Stuart Kauffman, Zoe-Vonna Palmrose and Lee Smolin
THE REALITY CLUB
Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Douglas Rushkoff, Larry Sanger, Mike Brown, George Dyson, Emanuel Derman, Michael Shermer, Paul Romer, Tor Nørretranders
IN THE NEWS
The New York Times: SStoking Fear Everywhere You Look
By David Carr
Financial Times: Bystanders to this financial crime were many
By Nassim Nicholas Taleb and Pablo Triana
Charlie Rose: A conversation with Nassim Nicholas Taleb about his book The Black Swan
(13,000 words)

Edge 268—December 5, 2008

THE THIRD CULTURE
SOCIAL NETWORKS AND HAPPINESS
By Nicholas A. Christakis & James H. Fowler
CHANGING LIFESTYLE CHANGES GENE EXPRESSION
A Talk with Dean Ornish
IN THE NEWS
The New York Times: Strangers May Cheer You Up, Study Says
By Pam Belluck
Washington Post: Happiness Can Spread Among People Like A Contagion, Study Indicates
By Rob Stein
Los Angeles Times: Happiness Is Contagious, Research Finds
By Karen Kaplan
The New York Times: Not Every Vote Counts
By Charles Seife
The New York Times: Why Twitter Turned Down Facebook
By Clair Cane Miller
Nature: Getting Its From Bits
By Frank Wilczek
The New York Times:You're Leaving a Digital Trail. What About Privacy?
By John Markoff
The New York Times: Only the Rich Can Afford It. Should Taxpayers Take It Back?
By Randall Stross
Ofcom International: Managing Competitive Communications in a Digital Age
Nature: Darwin 200: The Needs of the Many
By Marek Kohn
Nature: Darwin 200: Beyond the Origin
New Scientist: Will the next Einstein come from Africa?
Ivan Semeniuk interviews Neil Turok
New Scientist: The free lunch that made our universe
By Lawrence Krauss
The New York Times: Even if You Can't Buy It, Happiness Is Big Business
By Patricia Leigh Brown
(9,800 words)

Edge 267—November 25, 2008

THE THIRD CULTURE
THE THIRD CULTURE IN SPAIN
PRESENTACIÓN TERCERA CULTURA
Slide Show
PRESENTACIÓN PLATAFORMA CULTURA 3.0
Tercera cultura en Madrid
YOU TUBE
Cultura 3.0 en Madrid
EL MUNDO por dentro
Hoy Sí Que Está El Periódico En El Filo (Edge) De La Noticia
Arcadi Espada
EL MUNDO
Nace La Plataforma Tercera Cultura
(Birth of the Third Culture)
Rosa M. Tristán
EL MUNDO por dentro
La Tercera Cultura En España
Arcadi Espada
LA REVOLUCION NATURALISTA
Presentacion De Cultura 3.0
SYNC, AND SWIM TOGETHER
By Daniel Kahneman and Andrew M. Rosenfield
IN THE NEWS
The New York Times: Books of the Times: Polly Wanna Cracker? Squawk! Do Better, That's So Bush League
By Michiko Kakutani
The New York Times Magazine: Becoming Screen Literate
By Kevin Kelly
Intelligent Life: The Rise of the Journo-Gurus
Salon: Good Enough
By Steve Paulson
The New York Times: Regenerating a Mammoth for $10 Million
(4,500 words)

Edge 266—November 20, 2008

THE THIRD CULTURE
THE IMPRINTED BRAIN THEORY
By Christopher Badcock
THE REALITY CLUB
Arnold Trehub on THE PROBLEM WITH CONSCIOUSNESS by Alva Noë
IN THE NEWS
Arts & Letters Daily: Essays and Opinion
The New York Times: Science Times: In a Novel Theory of Mental Disorders, Parents' Genes Are in Competition
By Benedict Carey
Nature: Essay: Battle of the sexes may set the brain
By Christopher Badcock & Bernard Crespi
Scientific American:Enceladus: Secrets of Saturn's Strangest Moon
By Carolyn Porco
(5,000 words)

Edge 265—November 14, 2008

THE THIRD CULTURE
OF GENITAL THIEVES
The exploration of economic irrationality
Andrian Kreye
THE PROBLEM OF CONSCIOUSNESS
A Talk with Alva Noë
HOW KEVIN BACON CURED CANCER
Steven Strogatz & Albert-László Barabási
IN THE NEWS
Süddeutsche Zeitung: Unter Geschlechtsräubern: Die Erforschung der wirtschaftlichen Unvernunft
By Andrian Kreye
El Pais: Internet cambia la forma de leer... ¿y de pensar?
By Abel Grau
Scientific American: Oppenheimer the Opera: A review of Doctor Atomic
By Michael Shermer
The Times: Ben Macintyre on a people with no history, no fiction and no sense of left or right
The Guardian: The Power of Speech
By Patrick Barkham
Wall Street Journal: A New Dawn
By Bjørn Lomborg, Ian McEwan
Harvard Magazine: What Makes the Human Mind?
By Ashley Pettus
Los Angeles Times: McCain's science earmark error
By Lawrence M. Krauss
Slate: Does Religion Make You Nice?
By Paul Bloom
(9,500 words)

Edge 264—November 7, 2008

THE THIRD CULTURE
THE DOUBLE HELIX MEDAL FOR SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH
James D. Watson & J. Craig Venter
SWATTING ATTACKS ON FRUIT FLIES AND SCIENCE
By Jerry Coyne
REAL LIFE IS NOT A CASINO
By Nassim Nicholas Taleb
PUTTING PSYCHOLOGY INTO BEHAVIORAL ECONOMICS
A Talk By Richard Thaler, Daniel Kahneman, Sendhil Mullainathan
Sean Parker, Anne Treisman, Paul Romer, Danny Hillis, Jeff Bezos, Salar Kamangar, George Dyson, France LeClerc
Class 6: A Short Course In Behavioral Economics
IN THE NEWS
Financial Times: Obama’s technology czar: the betting begins
By Richard Waters
New York Review of Books: Science: The Coming Century
By Martin Rees
The New York Times: A Conversatrion with Stuart L. Pimm
By Claudia Dreyfus
Science: The Gonzo Scientist: Flunking SporeDawkins
By Martin Beckford and Urmee Kahn
By John Bohannon
The Boston Globe: U Tube
By Jeffrey MacIntyre
Publishers Weekly: What Have You Changed Your Mind About?
Huffington Post: Man Versus Machine
By Thomas B. Edsall
Wall Street Journal: October Pain Was 'Black Swan' Gain
By Scott Patterson
Prospect: The emerging moral psychology
By Dan Jones
The Record (Waterloo): This is the column that changed the world
By Bill Bean
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung: The Turkey Was Amazed
By Frank Schirrmacher
The New York Times: Your Comments On The Economy Column
By Nicholas Kristof
Atlantic Online: Too Soon To Tell
By Ross Douthat
Technology Review: Wikipedia and the Meaning of Truth
By Simon L. Garfinkel
Technology Review: Moving Freely Between Virtual Worlds
By Erica Naone
Technology Review: Immortalizing a Piece of Yourself
By Emily Singer
Technology Review: Linda Avey and Anne Wojcicki: The founders of startup 23andMe want to know your genome
By Emily Singer
(16,450 words)

Edge 263—October 30, 2008

THE THIRD CULTURE
THE IRONY OF POVERTY
A Talk By Sendhil Mullainathan
Daniel Kahneman, Paul Romer, Richard Thaler, Danny Hillis, Jeff Bezos, Sean Parker, Anne Treisman, France LeClerc, Salar Kamangar, George Dyson
Class 5: A Short Course In Behavioral Economics
[Edge Video]
IN THE NEWS
The New York Times: Op-Ed Column: The Behavioral Revolution
By David Brooks
This Is Money: Nassim Taleb and the Secret of the Black Swan
By Bill Condie, Evening Standard
The Telegraph: Dean Kamen: Part Man, Part Machine
The Guardian: 'People Say I'm Strident"
By Decca Aitkenhead
The Telegraph: Harry Potter Fails to Cast Spell over Professor Richard Dawkins
By Martin Beckford and Urmee Kahn
TIME: Q&A: Nassim Nicholas Taleb
By Tim Morrison
The Vancouver Sun: Motivated By Fear
By Peter McKnight
Nature: Editorial: A Look Within
Nature: Essay: Being Human: Religion: Bound to Believe?
By Pascal Boyer
(16,460 words)

Edge 262—October 22, 2008

THE THIRD CULTURE
TWO BIG THINGS HAPPENING IN PSYCHOLOGY TODAY
A Talk By Daniel Kahneman
Danny Hillis, Richard Thaler, Nathan Myhrvold, Elon Musk,
France LeClerc, Salar Kamangar, Anne Treisman,
Sendhil Mullainathan, Jeff Bezos, Sean Parker
Class 4: A Short Course In Behavioral Economics
[Edge Video]
THE REALITY CLUB
W. Daniel Hillis, Daniel Kahneman, Nathan Myhrvold, Richard Thaler on "Two Big Things Happening in Psychology Today"
IN THE NEWS
The Guardian: Comment Is Free: All Aboard the Atheist Bus Campaign
By Ariane Sherine
The New York Times: The DNA AGE — Taking a Peek at the Experts' Genetic SecretsStruggle for the Islands
By Freeman Dyson
By Amy Harmon
The Atlantic: Why Washington's crusade against swearing on the airwaves is f*cked upTea and Empathy with Daniel Goleman
By Lawrence M. Fisher
By Steven Pinker
The New York Times: The Downturn's Upside
By Nicholas D. Kristof
Nature: The Cranial Endoskeleton of Tiktaalik Roseae
By Jason P. Downs, Edward B. Daeschler, Farish A. Jenkins & Neil H. Shubin
The New York Times: Fish Fossil Yields Anatomical Clues on How Animals of the Sea Made It to Land
By John Noble Wilford
Bloggingheads.Tv: John Horgan & David Berreby
(16,000 words)

Edge 261—October 16, 2008

THE THIRD CULTURE
WHATS NEXT?
By Frank Schirrmacher
FRANKFURTER ALLGEMEINE ZEITUNG
Bookfair Edition 1
THE STARS ARE INDESPENSIBLE
Why John Brockman, the great New York agent, doesn't read novels
By Thomas David
A SHORT COURSE IN BEHAVIORAL ECONOMICS
CLASS THREE
SENDHIL MULLANATHAN
Nathan Myhrvold, Richard Thaler, Daniel Kahneman, France LeClerc, Danny Hillis, Paul Romer, George Dyson, Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Sean Parker
[Text & Video]
IN THE NEWS
Atlantic: First Person Plural
By Paul Bloom
Wall Street Journal: The 1% Panic
By L. Gordon Crovitz
The New York Times: The Rise of the Machines
By Ricard Dooling
Bloomberg: Taleb's 'Black Swan' Investors Post Gains as Markets Take Dive
By Stephanie Baker
(15,700 words)

Edge 260—October 9, 2008

THE THIRD CULTURE
A SHORT COURSE IN BEHAVIORAL ECONOMICS
CLASS TWO: RICHARD THALER & SENDHIL MULLAINATHAN
Jeff Bezos, Nathan Myhrvold, Salar Kamangar, Daniel Kahneman, Danny Hillis, Paul Romer, Elon Musk, Sean Parker
[Text & Video]
IN THE NEWS
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung: Feuilleton: Assume the Fetal Position!
By Frank Schirrmacher
New York Review of Books: Struggle for the Islands
By Freeman Dyson
Strategy & Business: Tea and Empathy with Daniel Goleman
By Lawrence M. Fisher
Financial Times: The Short View: Political Risk
By John Authers, Investment Editor
New Scientist: Anyons: The Real Breakthrough Quantum Computing Needs?
By Don Monroe
(14,500 words)

THE THIRD CULTURE
A SHORT COURSE IN BEHAVIORAL ECONOMICS
Edge Master Class 2008
Richard Thaler, Sendhil Mullainathan, Daniel Kahneman
Sonoma, CA, July 25-27, 2008
AN EDGE SPECIAL PROJECT
CLASS ONE: RICHARD THALER
[Text & Video]
NOTABLE QUOTE
Nassim Taleb
IN THE NEWS
The New Scientist: Editorial: When the Numbers Don't Add Up
Boston Globe: What About Austerity?
By Juan Enriquez and Jorge Dominguez
The New York Times: Private Company Launches Its Rocket Into Orbit
By John Schwartz
You Tube: Elon Musk's Spacex Successfully Launches Falcon 1
Boston Globe: Hidden Histories
By Jonathan Gottschall
Bloggingheads TV: John Horgan & George Johnson
The Observer: The New Sage of Wall Street: Profile: Nassim Nicholas Taleb
By Edward Helmore
The Colbert Report: Nicholas Carr
(17,100 words)

THE THIRD CULTURE
ECONOMIC DIS-EQUILIBRIUM
By George Dyson
THE REALITY CLUB
Jaron Lanier, George Dyson on THE FOURTH QUADRANT by Nassim Taleb
IN THE NEWS
Bloggingheads TV: Sean Carroll & Jennifer Ouellette
Economic Times: "Enlightened Pursuit of Pleasure"
By Vithal C Nadkarni
Newsweek: "When Atheists Attack"
By Sam Harris
Gawker: "What We Need More Of Is Science"
Seeking Alpha: "Managing Risk: A Probability Model"
Deseret News (Salt Lake City): "Gps Units, Internet Helping Little Dogies Get Along"
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: "Hardwired Conservatives"
Compiled by Greg Victor
The New York Times: "Technology Doesn't Dumb Us Down. It Frees Our Minds."
By Damon Darlin
The Economist: "User-Generated Science"
The Guardian: "Turkish Court Bans Richard Dawkins Website"
Newsweek: "Is Morality Natural?"
By Marc D. Hauser
Florida Trend: Darwin, Einstein, and Five Challenges for Florida
By Juan Enriquez
(5,100 words)

Edge 257—September 15, 2008

THE THIRD CULTURE
THE FOURTH QUADRANT: A MAP OF THE LIMITS OF STATISTICS
By Nassim Nicholas Taleb
An Edge Original Essay
IN THE NEWS
Der Spiegel: "Was halten Sie für wahr, ohne es beweisen zu können?"
By John Brockman
The New York Times: "No Laughing Matter"
By Judith Warner
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung: "Amazons Lesegerät Kindle
Das Buch, das aus dem Äther kam"
Von Hubert Spiegel
National Review Online: "The Corner"
By John Derbeyshire
The Guardian: "Tuesday memo: The road to the bridge to nowhere that wasn't there"
By Oliver Burkeman
The Malta Independent: "J’accuse: The meaning of life"
By Jacques René Zammit
Las Vegas Sun: "It's not the issues that likely make up many minds"
By J. Patrick Coolican
(7,950 words)

THE THIRD CULTURE
WHAT MAKES PEOPLE VOTE REPUBLICAN?
By Jonathan Haidt
A SLICE OF SCIFOO
By Frank Wilczek
THE REALITY CLUB
Daniel Everett, Howard Gardner, Michael Shermer, Scott Atran, James Fowler, Alison Gopnik, Sam Harris, James O'Donnell, Roger Schank on WHAT MAKES PEOPLE VOTE REPUBLICAN? by Jonathan Haidt
Lee Smolin, Betsy Devine, George Dyson on A SLICE OF SCIFOO by Frank Wilczek
James O'Donnell, Chris Anderson, David Brin on GIN, TELEVISION, AND COGNITIVE SURPLUS by Clay Shirky
(23,100 words)

Edge 255—August 21, 2008

THE THIRD CULTURE
GIN, TELEVISION, AND COGNITIVE SURPLUS
A Talk By Clay Shirky
EDGE IN THE NEWS
San Francisco Chronicle: "Campaign observers: Time is ripe for Obama to step up his game"
By Carla Marinucci
ABC News: "Party Time: From Dreams And Delusions To Wars And Wiretapping"
By John Allen Paulos
Science & Spirit: "Daniel Dennett's Darwinian Mind: An Interview with a 'Dangerous' Man"
By Chris Floyd
The New York Times: "Together Again In Different Time Zones"
By John Parales
The Guardian: "The Religion of Politics"
By Andrew Brown
Wall Street Journal: "Secondary Sources: Credit Crisis, Authoritarian Fed, Nudges"
Financial Times: "The Dramatic Effect Of A Firm Nudge"
By Cass Sunstein and Richard Thaler
(6,340 words)

Edge 254—August 12, 2008

THE REALITY CLUB
A SHORT COURSE IN BEHAVIORAL ECONOMICS
Daniel Kahneman & Nathan Myhrvold
HYPERPOLITICS (AMERICAN STYLE)
David Brin
EDGE IN THE NEWS
The New York Times: "Optimism In Evolution"
By Olivia Judson
Prospect: "Out of Mind"
By Paul Broks
The New York Times: "Harmony and the Dream"
By David Brooks
The New York Times: "All of Us, Arbiters of News"
By David Carr
The New York Times: "Is Google A Media Company?"
By Michael Helft
The Chronicle Review: "Who Framed George Lakoff"
By Evan Goldstein
Newsweek: "Not Quite Hal 9000, But It Vacuums"
By Katie Baker
Bloggingheads TV: "Science Saturday: Problems in Quantum Mechanics"
Sean Carroll, Dave Albert
(8,600 words)

Edge 253—August 5, 2008

THE THIRD CULTURE
A SHORT COURSE IN BEHAVIORAL ECONOMICS
Edge Master Class 08
Richard Thaler, Sendhil Mullainathan, Daniel Kahneman
Sonoma—July 25-27, 2008
SAN FRANCISCO SCIENCE DINNER
Kokkari
July 28, 2008
(9,340 words)

Edge 252—July 29, 2008

THE THIRD CULTURE
HYPERPOLITICS (AMERICAN STYLE)
A Talk By Mark Pesce
EDGE IN THE NEWS
The Chronicle Review: "The Science of Satire: Cognition studies clash with 'New Yorker' rationale"
By Mahzarin R. Banaji
(4,335 words)

Edge 251—July 21, 2008

THE THIRD CULTURE

PANORAMAS AND PHOTO TECHNOLOGY FROM ICELAND AND GREENLAND
By Nathan Myhrvold
THE REALITY CLUB
BRITANNICA FORUM
This Is Your Brain On The Internet
Clay Shirky, Nicholas Carr, Larry Sanger, Matthew Battles, Clay Shirky
W. Daniel Hillis on Nicholas Carr's "Is Google Making Us Stupid"
EDGE IN THE NEWS
The New York Times: "Costly Toys, Or A New Era For Drivers"
By Joe Nocera
The New York Times: "Let's Get Rid of Darwinism"
By Olivia Judson
NPR: ON THE MEDIA: "Search and Destroy"
The Telegraph: "Amazon Tribe Has No Words for Different Numbers"
By Roger Highfield
AXESS: "The Return of Religion"
By Roger Scruton
(7,170 words)

Edge 250—July 15, 2008

THE THIRD CULTURE
ENGINEERS' DREAMS
By George Dyson
THE NEXT RENAISSANCE
A Talk by Douglas Rushkoff
THE REALITY CLUB
W. Daniel Hillis, Kevin Kelly, Larry Sanger, George Dyson, Jaron Lanier, Douglas Rushkoff on Nicholas Carr's "Is Google Making Us Stupid"
EDGE IN THE NEWS
The Guardian: "From Obama to Cameron, why do so many politicians want a piece of Richard Thaler?"
By Aditya Chakrabortty
The New Yorker: "Surfing the Universe"
By Benjamin Wallace-Wells
The Times: "Why Barack Obama and David Cameron are keen to 'nudge you'"
By Carol Lewis
The Business Times (Singapore): "Psychology's Ambassador to Economics"
Daniel Kahneman talks to Vikram Khanna
The Washington Post: "Jason Calacanis' First New Email Post"
By Nik Cubrilovic
New Scientist: "A Way With Words"
By Jo Marchant
Highfield Named Editor of New Scientist
(9,670 words)

Edge 249—July 7, 2008

THE THIRD CULTURE
SUMMER READING
Recent and Forthcoming Titles from Edge Contributors
THE REALITY CLUB
Sean Carroll, Jaron Lanier, Joseph Traub, John Horgan, Bruce Sterling, Douglas Rushkoff, Oliver Morton, Daniel Everett, Gloria Origgi, Lee Smolin, Joel Garreau respond to Chris Anderson's "The End of Theory"
EDGE IN THE NEWS
Scientific American: "The Mirror Neuron Revolution: Explaining What Makes Humans Social"
Jonah Lehrer
Atlantic Monthly: "Is Google Making Us Stupid?"
Nicholas Carr
Bloggingheads TV: "Science Saturday: Summer Doldrums Edition"
John Horgan George Johnson
Los Angeles Times: "Mysteries of time, and the multiverse"
John Johnson Jr.
SEED: "The Seed Salon: Tom Wolfe + Michael Gazzaniga"
Harvard Business Review: "Should You Invest in the Long Tail?"
By Anita Elberse
Wall Street Journal: "Study Refutes Niche Theory Spawned by Web"
By Lee Gomes
Newsweek: "A Bug to Save the Planet"
By Fareed Zakaria
(10,600 words)

Edge 248—June 30, 2008

THE THIRD CULTURE
THE END OF THEORY
Will the Data Deluge Makes the Scientific Method Obsolete?
By Chris Anderson
THE REALITY CLUB
George Dyson, Kevin Kelly, Stewart Brand, W. Daniel Hillis
respond to "The End of Theory"
EDGE IN THE NEWS
Der Tagesspiegel: "A New Humanism" ("Ein Neuer Humanismus")
By Kai Kupferschmidt
The New Republic: "Hedonic Man"
By Alan Wolfe
Wall Street Journal: "How The Rich Spend their Time: Stressed"
By Robert Frank
The New Yorker: "The Itch"
By Atul Gawande
The New Yorker: "What Was I Thinking"
By Elizabeth Kolbert
Wall Street Journal: "Free To Choose, But Often Wrong"
By David A. Shawitz
Washington Post: "How Rich People Spend Their Time"
(11,000 words)

Edge 247—May 7, 2008

THE THIRD CULTURE
PUT A LITTLE SCIENCE IN YOUR LIFE
By Brian Greene
EDGE IN THE NEWS
The New Yorker: "Hello, Hal"
John Seabrook
The Guardian: "Steven Pinker: The evolutionary man"
SEED: "The Reality Tests"
By Joshua Roebke
Sunday Telegraph: "I seldom say this these days, but Gordon Brown is right"
By Matthew d'Ancona
Art Forum: "Signal distortion; Caroline A. Jones on David Joselit's Feedback: Television Against Democracy "
IEEE Spectrum: "The Singularity: A Special Report"
Nature: Editorial: "Open to interpretation"
New Statesman: "Take the talking cure"
By Gloria Origgi
(3,925 words)

Edge 246—June 10, 2008

THE THIRD CULTURE
THE (CHINESE) EMPEROR'S OLD CLOTHES
What Is Your Dangerous Idea
INTRODUCTION BY STEPHEN PINKER
AFTERWORD BY RICHARD DAWKINS

Edge 245—June 5, 2008

THE THIRD CULTURE
EXPERIMENT MARATHON REYKJAVÍK
Reykjavík Art Museum
Curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist
In Collaboration With Artist Ólafur Elíasson
BRIAN ENO
Leads Impromptu A Capella Group
——
Wall Street Journal: "In Iceland, Building Bridges for Art"
By Cathryn Drake
The Boston Globe: "Creators of Cool"
By Tom Haines
Art Forum: "Amazing Race — Reykjavik"
Cathryn Drake
Artnet: "Fire And Ice"
By Ben Davis
Art Review: "Reykjavik Arts Festival Diary, Days 1–4"
By James Westcot
Art Facts.Net: "Art Facts.Net Interviews Hans Ulrich Obrist"
Marek Claassen
EDGE IN THE NEWS
Frankfurter Rundschau: "Die Mondflüge der Philosophie"
Von Christian Schluter
New York Times: "The Future Is Now? Pretty Soon, at Least"
By John Tierney
The New York Times: "Dark, Perhaps Forever"
By Dennis Overbye
The New York Times: "
An Overflowing Five-Day Banquet of Science and Its Meanings
By Dennis Overbye
The New York Times: "Put a Little Science in Your Life"
By Brian Greene
The Sunday Times: "Nassim Nicholas Taleb: the prophet of boom and doom"
By Brian Appleyard
Nature: "Why we should love logarithms"
By Philip Ball
New York Review of Books: "The Question of Global Warming"
By Freeman Dyson
The New Republic: "The Stupidity of Dignity"
By Steven Pinker
The New York Times: "The Alpha Geeks"
By David Brooks
The New York Times: "Study Finds Big Social Factor in Quitting Smoking"
By Gina Kolata
The Boston Globe: "The secret to happiness? Who knows?"
By Alex Beam
Wired: "15th Anniversary: The Brian Eno Evolution"
By Steven Leckart
(8,000 words)

Edge 244—May 7, 2008

THE THIRD CULTURE
RULES OF THE GAME
A Talk With Hans Ulrich Obrist
EDGE IN THE NEWS
The New Yorker: "In the Air: Who Says Big Ideas Are Rare?"
By Malcolm Gladwell
(5,340 words)

Edge 243—April 22, 2008

THE THIRD CULTURE
VENGEANCE IS OURS
Jared Diamond in The New Yorker
BREAKING THE GALILEAN SPELL
By Stuart A. Kauffman
THE REALITY CLUB
Kevin Kelly on "Eliza's World"
EDGE IN THE NEWS
Campaign: Web Secrets
(6,560 words)

Edge 242—April 10, 2008

THE THIRD CULTURE
ARE HUMAN BRAINS UNIQUE?
By Michael Gazzaniga
ELIZA'S WORLD
By Nicholas Carr
THE REALITY CLUB
Jaron Lanier on "Eliza's World"
(7,080 words)

Edge 241—April 1, 2008

THE THIRD CULTURE
LA NACION
Buenes Aires
Los científicos son naturalmente optimistas
MODELING THE FUTURE
A Talk With Stephen Schneider
EDGE IN THE NEWS
The Guardian: The atheist delusion
(9,678 words)

Edge 240—March 13, 2008

THE THIRD CULTURE
ANTS HAVE ALGORITHMS
A Talk With Iain Couzin
EDGE IN THE NEWS
The Boston Globe: Rushkoff's Algorithm
By Joshua Glenn
Boing Boing: Nicholas Christakis, Doug Rushkoff, Alan Alda and The Edge Dinner
By David Pescovitz
(5,680 words)

Edge 239—March 4, 2008

THE EDGE DINNER — 2008
THE REALITY CLUB
Douglas Rushkoff, Alan Alda on Nicholas Christakis' "Social Networks Are Like the Eye"
(3,100 words)

Edge 238—February 25, 2008

THE THIRD CULTURE
SOCIAL NETWORKS ARE LIKE THE EYE
A Talk With Nicholas A. Christakis
(7,500 words)

THE THIRD CULTURE
ENGINEERING BIOLOGY
A Talk With Drew Endy
EDGE IN THE NEWS
The Sun Herald (Sydney, Australia): What Are You Optimistic About?
By Frank Brunetti
Web Diary (Australia): What are you optimistic about?
By Craig Rowley
(7,000 words)

Edge 236—February 12, 2008

THE THIRD CULTURE
THE IMPICIT ASSOCIATION TEST
A Conversation with Mahzarin Banaji and Anthony Greenwald
PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES IAT
EDGE IN THE NEWS
Condé Nast Portfolio: Daily Brew: Valuable Reasons to Check Your Kid's Closet
By Kevin Maney
(4,900 words)

THE THIRD CULTURE
LIFE: A GENE-CENTRIC VIEW
Craig Venter & Richard Dawkins
A Conversation in Munich
(Moderator: John Brockman)
Complete One-Hour Video & Transcript
BETTER THAN FREE
By Kevin Kelly
EDGE IN THE NEWS
Publico: Edição Lisboa: Cover Story, Sunday Magazine: When the world's great scientific thinkers change their minds
By Ana Gerschenfeld
Wall Street Journal: A Sense of the Future
By Paul Boutin
The New York Review of Books: The Triumph of Stephen Jay Gould
By Richard C. Lewontin
Times Colonist (Victoria, British Columbia): Boffins wax poetic about their passions; Mainstream media, readers seem scared despite fine writing, fascinating facts
By Barbara Julien
(15,9000 words)

Edge 234—January 24, 2008

THE THIRD CULTURE
VENTER INSTITUTE SCIENTISTS CREATE FIRST SYNTHETIC BACTERIAL GENOME
LIVE IN NYC
WHAT ARE YOU OPTIMISTIC ABOUT
Borders Bookstore — Columbus Circle
January 29, 2008 7:00 PM
EDGE @ DLD
(Digital Life Design)
"LIFE: A GENE-CENTRIC VIEW"
A Conversation with Craig Venter & Richard Dawkins
(Moderator: John Brockman)
SÜDDEUTSCHE ZEITUNG
The Future of Selection
(Die Zukunft der Selektion)
By Florian Kessler
DER SPIEGEL
Craig Venter wants to email life
(Craig Venter will Lebewesen e-mailen)
By Christian Stöcker
EDGE IN THE NEWS
Times Literary Supplement: In Brief: What Are You Optimistic About?
By James Joseph
(3,200 words)

Edge 233—January 14, 2008

EDGE publishes "Life: What a Concept!"
transcript as downloadable pdf book
EDGE @ DLD (Digital, Life, Design)
10:00am, January 21, Munich
"LIFE: A GENE-CENTRIC VIEW"
Craig Venter & Richard Dawkins
(Moderator: John Brockman)
THE THIRD CULTURE
WHAT'S YOUR CONSUMPTION FACTOR?
By Jared Diamond
The Edge Annual Question — 2008
THE WORLD QUESION CENTER
WHAT HAVE YOU CHANGED YOUR MIND ABOUT? WHY?
Press Coverage: Arts & Letters Daily; bloggingheads.tv; boingboing; Canberra Times; Corriere Della Sera; The Globe and Mail; The Guardian; Il Giornale; Infectious Greed; The Independent; El Mundo; National Review Online; The News & Observer; [email protected]; O'Reilly Radar; San Francisco Chronicle; Slashdot; Spiegel Online; Süddeutsche Zeitung; Sunday Tribune; The Telegraph; The Times; Toronto Star; The Wall Street Journal; The Washington Post; Die Zeit
THIRD CULTURE NEWS
The New York Times Magazine: Cover Story: The Moral Instinct
By Steven Pinker
EDGE IN THE NEWS
The New Republic: The TNR Q&A
By Isaac Chotiner
Capital Times (Madison, Wisconsin): Think Positive
By Mary Bergin
The Age (Melbourne, Australia): Questions
By Lorien Kaye
(9,700 words)

Edge 232—January 4, 2008

THE WORLD QUESION CENTER
The Edge Annual Question — 2008
WHAT HAVE YOU CHANGED YOUR MIND ABOUT? WHY?
EDGE IN THE NEWS
Rocky Mountain News: Science Snubbed
By Vincent Carroll, Editor, Editorial Pages
The Mail On Sunday: What Are You Optimistic About?
Review by Harry Ritchie
The New York Times: Op-Ed Columnist: The Sidney Awards II
By David Brooks
(113,100 words)

Edge 231—December 19, 2007

THE THIRD CULTURE
THIRD CULTURE HOLIDAY READING
Books By Edge Contributors (and others) — 2007
THIRD CULTURE NEWS
The New York Times: Laws of Nature, Source Unknown
By Dennis Overbye
(2,300 words)

THE THIRD CULTURE
DNA-DRIVEN WORLD
J. Craig Venter
SCIENCE AND THE CANDIDATES
Lawrence M. Krauss
THE REALITY CLUB
JONATHAN HAIDT
replies to David Sloan Wilson, Michael Shermer, Sam Harris, PZ Myers, Marc D. Hause
ALAN SOKAL
on "Taking Science On Faith" By Paul Davies
PAUL DAVIES
replies to Jerry Coyne, Nathan Myhrvold, Lawrence Krauss, Scott Atran, Sean Carroll, Jeremy Bernstein, PZ Myers, Lee Smolin, John Horgan, Alan Sokal
EDGE IN THE NEWS
The Independent: Stocking-fillers: A seasonal run on the ideas bank
(11,130 words)

Edge 229—November 28, 2007

THE THIRD CULTURE
GOD VS. SCIENCE
A Debate Between Natalie Angier and David Sloan Wilson
Moderated by Thomas A. Bass
TAKING SCIENCE ON FAITH
Paul Davies
THE REALITY CLUB
Jerry Coyne, Nathan Myhrvold, Lawrence Krauss, Scott Atran, Sean Carroll, Jeremy Bernstein, PZ Myers, Lee Smolin, John Horgan
on "Taking Science On Faith" By Pal Davies
EDGE IN THE NEWS
Charleston City Paper: Journal: The new intellectuals
O, The Oprah Magazine: Reading Room: Givers and Keepers
SEED: What Are You Optimistic About?
THIRD CULTURE NEWS
International Herald Tribune: Turkish prosecutor probes whether atheist book "The God Delusion" assaults values
(17,300 words)

EDGE THANKSGIVING EDITION
TERRORISM AND RADICALIZATION
Scott Atran
THIRD CULTURE NEWS
The Independent: Are the family clichés true?
Business Day: Street Dogs: A little more about black swans
WIRED: 23andMe will decode your DNA for $1,000. Welcome to the age of genomics.
(1,300 words)

Edge 227—November 15, 2007

THE THIRD CULTURE
EDGE/TED TALKS
Caroyln Porco, V.S. Ramachandran, Steven Pinker
THE EDGE DINNER 2007
SERPENTINE GALLERY/EDGE EXPERIMENT MARATHON
THIRD CULTURE NEWS
Dissident Voice: Chomsky's Intellectual Progeny
(1,500 words)

Edge 226—October 17, 2007

THE WORLD QUESTION CENTER
FORMULAE FOR THE 21ST CENTURY
"WHAT IS YOUR FORMULA? YOUR EQUATION? YOUR ALGORITHM?"
An Edge-Serpentine Gallery Collaboration
EDGE IN THE NEWS
The Telegraph: Science and art meet in 'Experiment Marathon'
By Roger Highfield, Science Editor
Süddeutsche Zeitung: Short Answers To Big Questions
Andrian Kreye
E-Flux: Serpentine Gallery
THIRD CULTURE NEWS
The New York Times: Two, Deux, Dos: Heavily Used Words Evolve More Slowly
By Henry Fountain
The Boston Globe: Cooperation counts for math professor
By Heather Wax
Salon: Proud Atheists
By Steve Paulson
The Sunday Times: Steven Pinker knows what's going on inside your head
By Bryan Appleyard
Discover: JARON'S WORLD: Are We Trapped in God's Video Game? Probably not. And no, he's not looking at your underwear.
By Jaron Lanier
International Herald Tribune: A Refugee from Western Europe
By Sam Harris and Salman Rushdie
The New York Times: Nerd Chic Arrives on TV
By David Carr
(3,590 words)

Edge 225—October 3, 2007

THE WORLD QUESTION CENTER
"WHAT IS YOUR FORMULA? YOUR EQUATION? YOUR ALGORITHM?"
A "World Question Center" Special Event
An Edge-Serpentine Gallery Collaboration
THE REALITY CLUB
Marc D. Hauser on "Moral Psychology and the Misunderstanding of Religion" By Jonathan Haidt
EDGE IN THE NEWS
The Bismark Tribune: Discovering beliefs, core values online
By Keith Darnay
THIRD CULTURE NEWS
The Wall Street Journal: The Future of Bioenergy
By Juan Enriquez
Valleywag: Boing Boing to launch daily Internet-TV show
Washington Post: On Faith: The Problem with Atheism
By Sam Harris
Salon: Our rosy future, according to Freeman Dyson
By Onnesha Roychoudhuri
Bloggingheads TV: John Horgan & Carl Zimmer
The Nation: Root and Branch
By Ian Hacking
(3,650 words)

THE THIRD CULTURE
A SHORT COURSE IN THINKING ABOUT THINKING
A "Master Class" By Danny Kahneman
JAMES LEE BYARS: THE ART OF WRITING
Museum of Modern Art—Through October 29
THIRD CULTURE NEWS
Globe and Mail: Don't be afraid of dangerous ideas
By Margaret Wente
The Nation: Root and Branch
By Ian Hacking
10 Zen Monkeys TV: Rod Brooks Builds Robots
The Economist: Alex the African Grey
(8,500 words)

Edge 223—September 19, 2007

THE THIRD CULTURE
EINSTEIN: AN EDGE SYMPOSIUM
Brian Greene, Walter Isaacson, Paul Steinhardt
BOOTSTRAPPING OUR WAY TO AN AGELESS FUTURE
By Aubrey de Grey
THE REALITY CLUB
David Sloan Wilson, Michael Shermer, Sam Harris, PZ Myers on "Moral Psychology and the Misunderstanding of Religion"
THIRD CULTURE NEWS
The Times: Can't find the words? Make 'em up
By Steven Pinker
The New York Times: Is 'Do Unto Others' Written Into Our Genes?
By Nicholas Wade
The New York Times: Lost in a Million-Year Gap, Solid Clues to Human Origins
By John Noble Wilford
The Observer: Holding back the years
By Tom Templeton
The New York Times: Alex Wanted a Cracker, but Did He Want One?
By George Johnson
The Boston Globe: Eggheads: How bird brains are shaking up science
By Jonah Lehrer
New Scientist: Mathematical cosmos: Reality by numbers
By Max Tegmark
The New Republic: The Greatest Dying
By Jerry Coyne & Hopi E. Hoekstra
The New York Times: Google Backs $25 Million ‘Lunar X Prize’
By John Schwartz
Scientific American: An interview with Alex, the African grey parrot
Al Jazeera Net: The Book of Life
By Riz Kahn
Arts & Letters Daily
(21,500 words)

THE THIRD CULTURE
ALEX (1976-2007)
MORAL PSYCHOLOGY AND THE MISUNDERSTANDING OF RELIGION
By Jonathan Haidt
EDGE IN THE NEWS
The Dallas Morning News: Rod Dreher: Playing the anti-science card
THIRD CULTURE NEWS
The New York Times: Evidence of Genetic Response to Diet
By Nicholas Wade
New Scientist: Low-cost personal DNA readings are on the way
By Peter Aldhous
TIME: Words Don't Mean What They Mean
By Steven Pinker
Times Literary Supplement: Bible Belter
By Richard Dawkins
3 Quarks Daily: Monday Musing: Pinker's Thinkers
New Scientist: What good is God?
By Helen Phillips
(7,375 words)

Edge 221—September 4, 2007

THE THIRD CULTURE
LIFE: WHAT A CONCEPT!
An Edge Special Event at Eastover Farm
George Church, Freeman Dyson, Seth Lloyd, Dimitar Sasselov, Robert Shapiro, and J. Craig Venter
FRANKFURTER ALLGEMEINE ZEITUNG
FEUILLETON — Front Page
By Jordan Mejias
SUEDDEUTSCHE ZEITUNG
FEUILLETON — Front Page
By Andrian Kreye
THE REALITY CLUB
Richard Dawkins and Freeman Dyson: An Exchange
THIRD CULTURE NEWS
J. Craig Venter Institute: The first publication of a diploid human genome from one person
Press Release
PLOS Biology: The Diploid Genome Sequence of an Individual Human. By Levy S, Sutton G, Ng PC, Feuk L, Halpern AL, et al.
The New York Times: Science Times: In the Genome Race, the Sequel Is Personal
By Nicholas Wade
CNN: Genetic variation greater than expected
Science: How to Build a Craig Venter
By Jon Cohen
The Guardian: DNA pioneer publishes own genomeBy
Ian Sample, science correspondent
XCONOMY: Rubbing Elbows and Dodging Bees With Synthetic Biology Pioneer George Church
By Gregory T. Huang
El Norte — Mexico: Tercera cultura y política
By Alfonso Elizondo
The New York Times: Science Times: Through Analysis, Gut Reaction Gains Credibility
By Claudia Dreyfus
New Scientist: Evidence for unified theory may lie in black holes
By Zeeya Merali
New Scientist: Editorial: The power of fiction
New Scientist: Science in Fiction
Essay by Rebecca Goldstein
Nature: From the Blogosphere
Vanity Fair: God Bless Me. It's a Best-Seller!
The Colbert Rapport: Dr. Michael Shermer
Scientific American: Rational Atheism: An open letter to Messrs. Dawkins, Dennett, Harris and Hitchens
By Michael Shermer
Scientific American: What's the Big Idea?When the lightbulb above your head is truly incendiary
By Steve Mirsky
The New York Times: Science Times: Sleights of Mind: Some magicians have intuitively mastered some of the lessons being learned in the laboratory about the limits of cognition and attention.
By George Johnson
Slate: The Undercover Economist: Milton Friedman, Meet Richard Feynman
By Tim Harford
Nature: Correspondence: Scientists should unite against threat from religion
By Sam Harris
New Scientist: Comment: Atheism à la carte
By Lawrence Krause
Science: Sacred Barriers to Conflict Resolution
By Scott Atran, Robert Axelrod, and Richard Davis
(4,700 words)

Edge 220—August 15, 2007

THE THIRD CULTURE
THE CHANGING ARCTIC
By Alun Anderson
EDGE IN THE NEWS
The Dallas Morning News: Rod Dreher: Playing the anti-science card
THIRD CULTURE NEWS
Discover Magazine: Jaron's World: Peace through God
By Jaron Lanier
The New York Times: Science Times: A Conversation with Gino Segre
By Claudia Dreyfus
The New York Times: Sunday Book Review: Look Who's Talking
By Emily Eakin
The Washington Post: His Heart Whirs Anew
By Joel Garreau
Prospect Magazine: The Sacred and the Human
By Roger Scruton
Prospect Magazine: Life, but not as we know it
By Philip Ball
Prospect Magazine: A Dictatorship of Idiots?
By James Crabtree
The New York Times: The Straw Poll Man
By David Brooks
(4,100 words)

Edge 219—August 9, 2007

THE THIRD CULTURE
THE NEED FOR HERETICS
By Freeman Dyson
SCIFOO 2007
A Photo Essay by George Dyson
EDGE IN THE NEWS
The Chicago Sun-Times: In defense of dangerous ideas
By Steven Pinker
The Guardian Review: What Is Your Dangerous Idea?
By P.D. Smith
The Hindu: Dangerous idea is ‘the idea that ideas can be dangerous’
D.Murali
THIRD CULTURE NEWS
The Economist: Blatant benevolence and conspicuous consumption
Geoffrey Miller
The Independent: Leading Article: Divine inspiration
The New York Times: You, Your Friends, Your Friends of Friends
By Gina Kolata
The Sunday Times: The gullible age
By Peter Millar
Vanity Fair: God Bless Me. It's a Best-Seller!
By Christopher Hitchens
Technology Review: Making Gasoline from Bacteria
A biotech startup wants to coax fuels from engineered microbes
By Neil Savage
Technology Review: Second Earth
By Wade Roush
Technology Review: Artificial Intelligence Is Lost in the Woods
By David Gelernter
(9,800 words)

Edge 218—August 1, 2007

THE THIRD CULTURE
LIONS: AFRICA'S MAGNIFICENT PREDATORS
Photo Essay By Nathan Myhrvold
DAWKINS ANNOUNCES "THE OUT CAMPAIGN"
EDGE IN THE NEWS
signandsight.com: Magazine Roundup
Edge.org 18.07.2007
Perlentaucher.de: Die Magazinrundschau
The Guardian Weekly: The new age of ignorance
By Tim Adams
Arts & Letters Daily: Dangerous Ideas
Boing Boing: Kevin Kelly: The Technium and the 7th kingdom of life
Posted by Xeni Jardin
THIRD CULTURE NEWS
The New York Times: In Games, an Insight Into the Rules of Evolution
By Carl Zimmer
The New York Times: The Whys of Mating: 237 Reasons and Counting
New Scientist: Am I my android?
By Alun Anderson
Salon: Should national security depend on Michael Chertoff's gut?
By Farhad Manjoo
The New York Times: Tierney Lab: The 238th Reason for Having Sex
By John Tierney
The New York Times: The Real Transformers
By Robin Marantz Henig
The New York Times: Eternity for Atheists
By Jim Holt
New Scientist: Comment: Don't vote for scientific ignorance
Lawrence Krauss
VOGUE: A Beatuful Mind: Lisa Randall
Photographed by Raymond Meier
Discover: The Discover Interview: Steven Pinker
By Marion Long
Discover: Jaron's World: The tangled dance of science, violence, hope, and strange belief
By Jaron Lanier
Science: The Nature of Belief
Scott Atran
All In the Mind: When Good People Turn Bad
Philip Zimbardo in conversation
MSNBC: Physicists probe the fifth dimension
By Alan Boyle,
Chicago Reader: Our Town
By Harold Henderson
Newsweek: Putting Time in a (Leaky) Bottle
By Sharon Begley
The Wall Street Journal: Full Disclosure
By Esther Dyson
The Guardian: Science Weekly for July 23
By Ben Green
Nature: A Constant Problem
By Geoff Brumfiel
Scientific American: The Gedanken Experimenter
By JR Minkel
Süddeutsche Zeitung: Über die neue Politik des Wissens
Von Larry Sanger
In Character: I Cannot Tell a Lie
By Simon Baron-Cohen
TIME: Saving American Science
By Michael Lemonick
(2,700 words)

Edge 217—July 18, 2007

THE THIRD CULTURE
THE TECHNIUM AND THE 7TH KINGDOM OF LIFE
A Talk with Kevin Kelly
SUMMER 07
SEED Magazine's Adam Blye at an EDGE Barbeque
THIRD CULTURE NEWS
The Scotsman: Website of the Week - www.edge.org
The Times: The Click: If you think the web is full of trivial rubbish, you will find the intellectual badinage of edge.org <www.edge.org> to b ea lessed counterpoint.
Chicago Sun-Times: In defense of dangerous ideas
By Stephen Pinker
The Boston Globe: Critical Faculties: Leave those kids alone
By Christopher Shea
Pop!Tech: Kevin Kelly [video]
Pop!Tech: Stewart Brand [video]
All In The Mind, Audio: Nature? Nurture? What makes us human"
Presented by Natasha Mitchell
TIME: 60-Second Synopsis: Gut Feelings by Gerd Gigerenzer
Aspen Ideas Festival: Believing the Unbelievable: The Clash Between Faith and Reason in the Modern World
Sam Harris [video]
eSkeptic: Richard Dawkins Replies to David Sloan Wilson
Bloggingheads.tv, Science Saturday: Sean Carroll & George Johnson
Nature, Cover Story: Many worlds: See me here, see me there
By Mark Buchanin
Nature, Cover Story: News and Views: Synthetic biology-Designs for life
By Philip Ball
Nature, Cover Story: Commentary: Many Lives in Many Worlds
By Max Tegmark
Harvard Business Review: Six Rules For Effective Forecasting
By Paul Saffo
(6, 450 words)

Edge 216—July 10, 2007

THE THIRD CULTURE
REGARDING A NEW HUMANISM
By Salvador Pániker
Translation by Karen Phillips
THE REALITY CLUB
David Pesetsky on "Recursion and Human Thought" by Daniel L. Everett
THIRD CULTURE NEWS
The Observer Sunday Review, Cover Story: The new age of ignorance
By Tim Adams
The New York Times, The Week In Review: Genetic Engineers Who Don't Just Tinker
By Nicholas Wade
Scientific American, Debate: Should Science Speak to Faith
The New York Times, Op-Ed Contributor: Mental Malpractice
By Jerome Groopman
Financial Times: Al-Qaeda: From Alienation to Annihilation
By Stephen Fidler in London
Bill Moyers Journal: E.O. Wilson
KCRW: Is Today's Internet Killing Our Culture?
Host Warren Olney
New Statesman: Am I a dwarf or a horseman?
By Christopher Hitchens
The New York Review Of Books: Our Biotech Future
By Freeman Dyson
eSkeptic: Beyond Demonic Memes: Why Richard Dawkins Is Wrong About Religion
By David Sloan Wilson
BoingBoing: Einstein in Marie Claire
Posted By David Pescovitz
BoingBoing: The Guardian on the "New Age of Ignorance"
Posted By David Pescovitz
The New York Times, Sunday Book Review: Inferior Design
By Richard Dawkins
National Post: Arts & Letters Daily Delivers Best Ideas At High Speeds
By Robert Fulford
Bloggingheads.tv: Science Saturday: John Horgan & George Johnson
New Scientist, Cover Story: The Flexi-laws of Physics
By Paul Davies
Science Friday: Synthetic Genome/New Stem Cell
Ira Flatow
Nature, Editorial: Meanings of 'life': Synthetic biology provides a welcome antidote to chronic vitalism
San Francisco Chronicle: Brian Eno's '77 Million Paintings' is an artwork that won't sit still
By Sylvie Simmons
The Age - Melbourne, Off the Shelf: Philosophy-What is your dangerous idea?
By Thuy On
(7, 000 words)

Edge 215—June 29, 2007

THE THIRD CULTURE
CHANGING ONE SPECIES INTO ANOTHER
By J. Craig Venter
THE REALITY CLUB
David Pesetsky, Daniel L. Everett, Robert D. Van Valin, Jr. on "Recursion and Human Thought" by Daniel L. Everett
THIRD CULTURE NEWS
Chicago Tribune: What You Ought to be Reading
By Julia Keller, Tribune Cultural Critic
The Colbert Report: Daniel Gilbert tells Stephen why he is so bad at finding happiness
The New York Times: Evolution
Toronto Star: Books Can Also Be Dangerous
By Nick Krewen
The Morning Call (Allentown, PA): Research on Human Nature Is Cause for Optimism
The New York Times: The Human Touch That May Loosen Google's Grip
Discover Magazine: Books: Dangerous Minds
By Boonsri Dickinson
Science: Birth Order and Intelligence
By Frank J. Sulloway
FORA.TV: City Planet: How Urbanization Will Drive Innovation
With Stewart Brand
AllAfrica.com, Business Day (Johannesburg): South Africa: Street Dogs-In Praise of the Sceptics
By Michel Pire
The Wall Street Journal: Hitchens Book Debunking the Deity Is Surprise Hit
By Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg
(7, 000 words)

Edge 214—June 21, 2007

THE THIRD CULTURE
DANGEROUS IDEAS
By Richard Dawkins
SUMMER READING
THE REALITY CLUB
Robert D. Van Valin, Jr. on Daniel L. Everett
THIRD CULTURE NEWS
Science: Paleoanthropology: Food for Thought
By Ann Gibbons
Science: Synthetic Biology: Attempt to Patent Artificial Organism Draws a Protest
By Jocelyn Kaiser
Pop!Tech: Nassim Nicholas Taleb [video]
New Scientist: Angry reception greets patent for synthetic life: Controversial tycoon Craig Venter raises a storm of protest by applying for a patent on a minimal genome which could be used to create life
By Peter Aldhous
The Economist: Patent pending: Move over Dolly. Synthia is on her way.
Nature, Editorial: Evolution and the Brain
Nature: Moral psychology: The depths of disgust
By Dan Jones
El Pais, Opinión: A propósito de un nuevo humanismo
By Salvador Pániker
The New York Times, Opinion: Theism and Evidence
By Stanley Fish
Scientific American, Cover story: A Simpler Origin for Life
By Robert Shapiro
(7, 550 words)

Edge 213—June 14, 2007

THE THIRD CULTURE
PEONY
By Katinka Matson
RECURSION AND HUMAN THOUGHT: WHY THE PIRAHÃ DON'T HAVE NUMBERS
A Talk With Daniel L. Everett
WHEN ONLY THE ENLIGHTENED SPEAK OUT, REASON IS BOUND TO LOSE
By Andrian Kreye, Editor, the Feuilleton, Süddeutsche Zeitung
THE REALITY CLUB
Steven Pinker on Daniel L. Everett; Everett Responds
THIRD CULTURE NEWS
The New Republic: The Great Mutator
By Jerry Coyne
Nature: Evolution and the brain
The Atlantic Monthly: Think of England
By Christopher Hitchens
The Guardian: Tome Truths
By A.C. Grayling
The Gallup Poll: Majority of Republicans Doubt Theory of Evolution
By Frank Newport
National Center for Science Education: Behe's latest scrutinized
The Nation: The New Atheists
By Ronald Aronson
Newsweek: Belief Watch: Smackdown
By Lisa Miller
SEED: Don't Know Much Biology (re-posted)
PAGE 3.14 The Best of Science Blogs: Don't Know Much Biology
By Katherine Sharpe
The Chicago Tribune: Shaking Language to the Core
By Ron Grossman
The Washington Post: Baptists Warned About Islam, Atheism
By Eric Gorski, The Associated Press
The New York Times: The Three Atheists
By Stanley Fish
The New York Times: Israel Discovers Oil
By Tom Friedman
The New York Times: In Corporations They Don't Trust
By Paul Brown
The Times: Can we really learn to love people who aren't like us?
By Jonathan Sacks
Bloggingheads TV: John Horgan & George Johnson
The New Republic: Coyne vs. Brownback
By Jason Zengerle
WIRED Science: Breaking Down Brownback's Anti-Science Op-Ed
By Brandon Keim
Arts & Letters Daily: Essays and Opinion
Boing Boing: Coyne shreds Brownback's antiscience op-ed
By David Pescovitz
New Scientist: Perspectives: The secret power of things we hold dear
By Sherry Turkle
Prospect: Challenging Chomsky
By Philip Oltermann
Der Spiegel: Der Kreuzzeug Der Gottlosen (The Crusade of the New Atheists: God is to Blame for Everything)
(15, 100 words)

Edge 212—June 6, 2007

THE THIRD CULTURE
DON'T KNOW MUCH BIOLOGY
BY Jerry Coyne
FAUST IN COPENHAGEN
By Gino Segre
SCIENCE AND RELIGION
By Werner Heisenberg
THIRD CULTURE NEWS
THE NEW YORK TIMES: The Universe, Expanding Beyond All Understanding
By Dennis Overbye
Discover: Dangerous Minds
By Boonsri Dickinson
The New York Review of Books: The Other Einstein
By Lee Smolin
Entelechy: The Biology of the Imagination
by Simon Baron-Cohen
The New York Times: 6 Billion Bits of Data About Me, Me, Me!
By Amy Harmon
The Observer: Beggar's Belief
By Robin McKie
The Independent: Tim Lott's Week: Scientists need to use their imagination
The Guardian: Scientists divided over alliance with religion
By Alok Jha
The Washington Post :Honey, I'm Gone
By Joel Garreau
Natural History: Darwin In Court
By Richard Milner
Nature: Celebrity genomes alarm researchers
By Erika Check
BBC NEWS: Happiness Wins Science Book Prize
Colbert Report: Walter Isaacson
(10, 400 words)

Edge 211—May 29, 2007

THE THIRD CULTURE
WHY DO SOME PEOPLE RESIST SCIENCE?
By Paul Bloom and Deena Skolnick Weisberg
PEN/ROBERT BINGHAM FELLOWSHIP FOR WRITERS
Awarded to Janna Levin
THIRD CULTURE NEWS
Newsweek International [Cover Story]
• Life 2.0
By Lee Silver
• Making It Happen
By Barrett Sheridan
• Our Synthetic Futures
By Rudy Rucker
The Colbert Report: Jared Diamond
The New York Times: Sunday Book Review: 'The Canon: A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science' by Natalie Angier
By Steven Pinker
Texas Monthly: Human Mate Selection Is a Many-Splendored Thing
The Observer: My Week: Richard Dawkins
The Colbert Report: Jimmy Wales
Charlie Rose: David Rockwell
The Wall Street Journal: Science Journal: Biodiverse MySpace? Online Encyclopedia To Name All Species
By Robert Lee Hotz
Late Night With Conan O'Brian: Mark Moffett
Movie Web: PBS Greenlights Wired Science to Premiere in October
(5, 600 words)

Edge 210—May 17, 2007

THE THIRD CULTURE
THE CYCLIC UNIVERSE
A Talk with Neil Turok
THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF LIFE
E.O. Wilson
E.O. WILSON: TED PRIZE WISH: HELP BUILD THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF LIFE
BY Chris Anderson, TED Curator
SATURN BACKLIT BY THE SUN
BY Steven Pinker
THE TIME 100
J. Craig Venter, Lisa Randall, Richard Dawkins, Chris Anderson
THIRD CULTURE NEWS
The Guardian: Search for happiness scoops science prize
By Alok Jha
The Boston Globe: Unbelievable
By Daniel C. Dennett
The New Yorker: Morality 2012
The New Yorker: Atheists with Attitude
By Anthony Gottlieb
Prospect: Why Home Doesn't Matter
By Judith Rich Harris
Publishers Weekly: Authors Shine at LA Times Book Prizes
By Bridget Kinsella
The Nation: Among the Disbelievers
By Daniel Lazare
The Times: How dare you call me a fundamentalist
By Richard Dawkins
The Wall Street Journal: Scientists Draw Link Between Morality And Brain's Wiring
By Robert Lee Hotz
The Colbert Report: Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The Boston Globe: Cataloguing every species on earth
By Colin Nickerson
The Guardian: The New Atheists loathe religion far too much to plausibly challenge it
By Madeleine Bunting
The Press (Christchurch, New Zealand): "WHAT IS YOUR DANGEROUS IDEA?" Edited By John Brockman
By Howard Williams
De Groene Amsterdammer: Dawkins: God als misvatting (The God Delusion)
TIME: The TIME 100: Svante Pääbo
By J. Craig Venter
TIME: The TIME 100: Paul Allen
By Steven Pinker
The Chronicle Review: Toward a Unified Theory of Einstein's Life
John Horgan
Fresh Air: 'Lucifer Effect' Asks Why Good People Go Bad
Terry Gross
The Washington Post: When Seeing Is Disbelieving
By Shankar Vedantam
Aero-news.net: Dreamlike... Flying With Professor Stephen Hawking
By ANN Editor-In-Chief and Zero-G Photographer Jim Campbell
(9, 300 words)

Edge 209—May 1, 2007

THE THIRD CULTURE
THE GOSPEL OF JUDAS
A Talk with Elaine Pagels
WHY THE GODS ARE NOT WINNING
by Gregory Paul & Phil Zuckerman
THE REALITY CLUB
GLORIA ORIGGI, CHARLES LEADBEATER ON "Who Says We Know" By Larry Sanger
THIRD CULTURE NEWS
New York Magazine: Are You There, God? It's Me, Hitchens
By Boris Kachka
Slate: Brains!: A special issue on neuroscience and neuroculture
By Daniel Engber, Slate Science Editor
Alison Gopnik, George Johnson, John Horgan, Steven Pinker, Daniel Gilbert, Joshua Gilbert, Marc Hauser, Joseph LeDoux
The Chronicle Review: The DNA of Religious Faith
By David P. Barash
The Economist: In The beginning
Discover: The Discover Interview: Marc Hauser
You Tube:Bill O'Reilly Interviews Richard Dawkins
Pop Tech: Brian Eno
(9, 500 words)

Edge 208—April 25, 2007

THE THIRD CULTURE
WHO SAYS WE KNOW
ON THE NEW POLITICS OF KNOWLEDGE
By Larry Sanger
An Edge Original Essay
THE REALITY CLUB
JARON LANIER, GEORGE DYSON ON "Who Says We Know"
THIRD CULTURE NEWS
El Norte: La tercera cultura
By Alfonso Elizondo
ABC TV News : Weightless Thrill Ride
Los Angeles Times : Predicting random chaos from hindsight
By Niall Ferguson
The Times: The brutal truth is out at last
By Anjana Ahuja
The Wall Street Journal: How Safe Is the Race To Send Tourists into Space?
Forbes: SPECIAL REPORT: The Spreading Epidemic
By Larry Brilliant
Forbes: SPECIAL REPORT: Open-Door Policy
By Jimmy Wales
Forbes: SPECIAL REPORT: The Inside-Out Web
By David Gelernter
Atlanta Journal-Constitution. OPINION
NOTED: Strange looks and funny lines from the past week
Portfolio: Chaos Is Underrated
By Roger Lowenstein
Blogginheads.tv: Science Saturday: On Violence
John Horgan & George Johnson
Fresh Air with Terry Gross: Jimmy Wales on the User-Generated Generation
Bloomberg: Embrace Black Swans to Avoid Financial Disaster, Urges Taleb
By Mark Gilbert
Boing Boing: Larry Sanger on the "New Politics of Knowledge"
The New York Times
Op-Ed Columnist: The Morality Line
By David Brooks
The Colbert Report: Elaine Pagels
(11, 000 words)

Edge 207—April 13 , 2007
THE THIRD CULTURE
THE HEROIC IMAGINATION
A Talk with Philip Zimbardo
EVOLUTION CLOSES IN BERKELEY
By Nicholas Humphrey
THE REALITY CLUB
ZENON PYLYSHYN ON Stephen M. Kosslyn's "What Shape Are A German Shepard's Ears"
KOSSLYN REPLIES
THIRD CULTURE NEWS
The Wall Street Journal: The New Crusaders: As Religious Strife Grows, Europe's Atheists Seize Pulpit
By Andrew Higgins
The Wall Street Journal: Learn About Europe's Famous Skeptics
Scientific American: Pope says science too narrow to explain creation
By Tom Heneghan
The Times: Wikipedia a froce for good? Nonsense, says a co-founder
By Alexandra Frean
The New Yorker: The Interpreter
By John Colapinto
The New Yorker: A Tribe Apart
Slideshow
NPR: Tribe Helps Linguist Argue with Prevailing Theory
New York Times: On the Launching Pad: A $20 Million Childhood Dream
By John Schwartz
The Wall Street Journal: Nobel-winning scientist Eric Kandel chooses unforgettable works on memory
By Eric Kandel
Townsville Bulletin: Dangerous Ideas
By Malcom Tatterall
Charlie Rose: Reading Judas: Elaine Pagels & Karen King
Charlie Rose
The Independent: Ian McEwan: I hang on to hope in a tide of fear
By Boyd Tonkin
C/Net News.com: Simonyi's ride on a Russian rocket
(Photo Gallery)
TIME: Einstein & Faith
By Walter Isaacson
The New York Times: Finding Hope in Knowing the Universal Capacity for Evil
By Claudia Dreyfus
The Sunday Times: How We Make Monsters
By Michael Bywater
The New York Times: Seeking a Car That Gets 100 Miles a Gallon
By Nick Bunkley
Newsweek: The God Debate
Sam Harris & Rick Warren
British Book Awards: Richard Dawkins is Author of the Year!
Bloggingheads.tv: John Horgan & George Johnson
Chicago Sun Times: A new fundamentalism?
By Jay Lindsay
Science: String Theory, With No Holds Barred
By John Simpson
San Francisco Chronicle: A noble Nobel
Editorial
The Daily Show: Psychologist Philip Zimbardo compares the Stanford Prison Experiment to Abu Ghraib
John Stewart
The Chronicle Review: Revisiting the Stanford Prison Experiment: a Lesson in the Power of Situation
By Philip G. Zimbardo
Prospect: The Mystery of Consciousness
By Paul Broks
The Agenda: Jerry Coyne/Science and Religion
By Steve Palkin
Fresh Air: Richard Dawkins Explains 'The God Delusion'
Terry Gross
BoingBoing: Katinka Matson's latest flower scan art
David Pescovitz
(10, 905 words)

Edge 206—March 28, 2007
THE THIRD CULTURE
A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE
By Steven Pinker
SHOOT THE PIANO PLAYER
By Denis Dutton
UNIVERSE
REVEALING OUR MODERN MYTHOLOGY
By Jonathan Harris
RED ANEMONE
By Katinka Matson
THE REALITY CLUB
P.Z. MEYERS ON "Open Letter To H. Allen Orr"
THIRD CULTURE NEWS
Science: From Whole Earth to the Whole Web
By Henry Lieberman
Weekend Australian: What Is Your Dangerous Idea
By Tony Maniaty
MSNBC: Elegant physicist makes string theory sexy
By Alan Boyle
The New Republic: Histories of Violence
By Steven Pinker
The New York Times: Scientist Finds the Beginnings of Morality in Primate Behavior
By Nicholas Wade
Science: Metagenomics: Ocean Study Yields a Tidal Wave of Microbial DNA
By John Bohannon
TIME: 60-Second Synopsis Reading Judas
By Elaine Pagels and Karen L. King
The Irish Times: Reading room: a surfer's guide
Fresh Air: Interviews: The Gospel of Judas and the Shaping of Christianity
With Terry Gross
Skeptical Inquirer: Intellectual and creative magnificence
By Kenneth W. Krause
Physics World: Intellectual innovator
Newsweek: Baby boomers and their books-it's a love story where nobody ever said he was sorry. Except, perhaps, for 'Love Story' itself.
By Malcolm Jones
(10, 675 words)

Edge 205—March 6, 2007
THE THIRD CULTURE
EDITORIAL NOTE
ADDENDUM TO "ARISTOTLE: THE KNOWLEDGE WEB"
By W. Daniel Hillis
THIRD CULTURE NEWS
The New York Times: What's So Funny? Well, Maybe Nothing By John Tierney
The New York Times (Cover Story): The Brain on the Stand
By Jeffrey Rosen
The New York Times Magazine: Out There
By Richard Panek
Prospect: Left Versus Right Defined the 20th Century. What's Next?
Prospect: Why have we not encountered intelligent extraterrestrial life?
By Geoffrey Miller
The New York Times: Reflections on Life as a Shaker-Upper
By Erik Piepenburg
The New York Times: Tie Space Continuum
By Herbert Muschamp
TIME: Early Christianity's Martyrdom Debate
By David Van Biema
Huffington Post: Give Palestine's Unity Government a Chance
Scott Atran, Robert Axelrod and Richard Davis
SEED: Jonathan Lethem + Janna Levin: The novelist and the cosmologist meet up to talk about reality
(5,715 words)

Edge 204—March 6, 2007
THE THIRD CULTURE
A NEUROSCIENCE SAMPLING
By Eric R. Kandel
THIRD CULTURE NEWS
The New York Times Magazine (Cover Story): Darwin's God
By Robin Marantz Henig
The New York Times: Possessed: At Home Before and Behind the Curtain
By David Colman
New Scientist, Interview: Marc Hauser: How We Tell Right From Wrong
By Ivan Semeniuk
Skeptical Inquirer, Book Review : "What We Believe But Cannot Prove"
By Kenneth W. Krause
New Scientist, Interview: Marvin Minsky: Once More With Feeling
By Amanda Gefter
The New York Times: Books on Atheism Are Raising Hackles in Unlikely Places
By Peter Seinfels
The Colbert Report: J. Craig Venter: God Didn't Have Computers
The New York Times: Celebrating Those Who Leave Some of Themselves in Their Work
By Cynthia Magriel Wetzler
10 Zen Monkeys: SF Writer Rudy Rucker: Everything Is Computation
By R.U. Sirius
(5,370 words)

Edge 203—Feb 27, 2007
THE REALITY CLUB
H. ALLEN ORR RESPONDS TO DANIEL C. DENNETT
THE THIRD CULTURE
NASA GOES DEEP
By Carolyn Porco
FALLING IN LOVE
By Marvin Minsky
IN THE NEWS
The New York Times: An Early Environmentalist, Embracing New 'Heresies'
By John Tierney
The New York Times: Mosh Pit Meets Sandbox
By David Brooks
Süddeutsche Zeitung: Was läuft hier richtig? Der neue Optimism
By Ralf Bönt
Reforma: Optimismo...
By Juan Enríquez Cabot
The New York Times: Human Nature Redux
By David Brooks
The New York Times: A Familiar and Prescient Voice, Brought to Life
By Dennis Overbye
(13,850 words)

Edge 202—January 22, 2007
THE REALITY CLUB
OPEN LETTER TO H. ALLEN ORR
By Daniel C. Dennett
THE THIRD CULTURE
WAKE UP MR. SLEEPY! YOUR UNCONSCIOUS MIND IS DEAD
By Richard Foreman
YOUTUBE: The Dawkins Delusion
By Dr. Terry Tommyrot
CONSTELLATIONS
By Brian Eno
THE COLBERT REPORT: Steven Pinker Explains How the Brain Works in Five Words
DAVOS REPORT
By Peter Schwartz
IN THE NEWS
Canberra Times: Peering dangerously into a future of ageless codgers
SEED: See what Marc Hauser, Drew Endy, Joshua Greene, and others have to say about where their fields are going in 2007
By Edit Staff
The New York Times: How Do We See Red? Count the Ways By Natalie Angier
Boston Globe: Morality play: A Harvard researcher believes that humans have an innate sense of right and wrong, but others say morality is mostly learned
By Carey Goldberg, Globe Staff
The Toronto Star: Who Believes in God? Michael Shermer was once a fundamentalist Christian, but is now an agnostic and an advocate for humanist philosophy
Journal Les Affaires: L'optimisme boursier actuel est inquiétant
By Bernard Mooney
Tonight (South Africa): What Is Your Dangerous Idea? Question everything, ban nothing, think dangerously
By James Mitchell
Genome Technology Online: Keeping the Glass Half Full
Le Monde: "Dans quel domaine êtes-vous optimiste? Et pourquoi?"
(14,000 words)

Edge 200 — 10th Anniversary Edition —January 8, 2006
THE THIRD CULTURE
NINE FLOWERS: An Exhibition by Katinka Matson
THE WORLD QUESTION CENTER
The Edge Annual Question — 2007
"WHAT ARE YOU OPTIMISTIC ABOUT? WHY? SURPRISE US!"
IN THE NEWS
The Guardian, Podcast Blog: Science Weekly for January 8
By James Randerson/Science
Toronto Star: Call me a cockeyed optimist, God bless those upbeat scientists
Los Angles Times: Looking through rose-colored microscopes: Why some scientists are optimistic about the future
Centre.Daily.com: Postcards hint of a brighter tomorrow
By Walt Mills
New Scientist, Editorial: Reasons to be cheerful
San Francisco Chronicle: Seeing the future, now: A world without relgion or violence. (Really.)
By Edward M. Gomez
The Economic Times//India Times: Grandiose notions of great scientists
By Mukul Sharma
The Charlotte The Post and Couriers: The World Question Center at www.edge.org every year asks scientists, doctors, philosophers and educators a question
Seattlest: Out of Sight, But Not Forgotten
Wall Street Journal: The Glass Is Half Full for Some Scientists
Open Source...with Christopher Lydon: Edge.org: Optimism
Welt Am Sonntag: Energiekrise, Armut und Terror: Warum ich für die kommenden Jahre trotzdem optimistisch bin
Cordis News: Scientists optimistic about 2007
The Fort Wayne News Sentinel: Dreamers and thinkers
By Leo Morris
Canadian Technology News: Identity management for zombies
By Shane Schick
The Times (London): Scientists find reasons to be cheerful
By Mark Henderson, Science Editor
The Guardian: No religion and an end to war: how thinkers see the future
By Alok Jha, science correspondent
The Times (London): A World Without Disgust
By Anjana Ahuja
SEED: Five issues, insights, and observations shaping our perspective, from the editors of SEED — 1. The Edge Annual Question 2007
Slashdot: What Are You Optimistic About?
boingboing: EDGE Question 2007: What are you optimistic about?
Arts & Letters Daily: What are you optimistic about? Intellectual impresario John Brockman puts his annual Edge question to leading thinkers.
Huffington Post: Got Optimism? The EDGE Annual Question for 2007 By Romi Lassally
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Edge 198—December 6 , 2006
THE THIRD CULTURE
The New York Times— OP-ED COLUMNIST — A Modest Proposal for a Truce on Religion By Nicholas D. Kristof
— When Atheists Have Their Say — Letters to the Editor by Sam Harris, Richard Dawkins
— Science Times ‚ A Free-for-All on Science and Religion By George Johnson
Beyond Belief— 15 hours of QuickTime Streaming Video
THE REALITY CLUB
Daniel C. Dennett — Re "A Modest Proposal for a Truce on Religion," by Nicholas D. Kristof (The New York Times, column, Dec. 3)
An Edge Discussion of Beyond Belief
Scott Atran, Nicholas Humphrey, Sam Harris, Deniel C. Dennett, Carolyn Porco
IN THE NEWS
La Stampa: Intervista — Gabriele Becari — John Brockman— Costruiamo Il Futuro Con Idee Foll
Los Angeles Times — We're all racists, unconsciously By Michael Shermer
New York Press — Pattern Recognition By Adario Strange
Wired Magazine — Head Games — David Pescovitz
10ZenMonkeys.com — Counterculture and the Tech Revolution — By RU Sirius
Workers World — A Marxist critique of the La Jolla conference — By Deirdre Griswold
Boston Herald — Where science need not tread — By Boston Herald editorial staff
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Edge 197—November 20, 2006
THE THIRD CULTURE
BEYOND REDUCTIONISM: Reinventing The Sacred By Stuart A. Kauffman
MY GD PROBLEM By Natalie Angier
LESS FAITH, MORE REASON By Steven Pinker Harvard Crimson
I'M AN ATHEIST...BUT By Richard Dawkins
THE REALITY CLUB
Douglas Rushkoff, Yossi Vardi, Janron Lanier on Hubert Burda's "How We Se Ourselves"
Jaron Lanier on Stuart Kauffman's "Beyond Reductionism"
IN THE NEWS
The Sunday Times
The Galileo effect: dangerous ideas waiting to happen
The Sunday Herald
Perils of Wisdom
Salon The sexiest man living!
Philadelphia Inquirer: Things We Like
Scientific American: By Stuart A. Kauffman
Arts & Letters Daily: Essay & Opinion
Newsweek: Losing Our Religion By Jerry Adler
(14,650 words)

Edge 195—November 3 , 2006
THE THIRD CULTURE
THANK GOODNESS! by Daniel C. Dennett
IN THE NEWS
The Independent: John Walsh: Tales of the City 'The whiff of Sixties hippiedom and Nelson Mandela saintliness are, I'm sure, unconscious'
The New York Times: An Evolutionary Theory of Right and Wrong By Nicholas Wade
The Observer: Atheists top book charts by deconstructing God By Jamie Doward, religious affairs correspondent
(4,000 words)

Edge 194— October 26, 2006
THE THIRD CULTURE
FESTIVAL DELLA SCIENZA 2006
THE EXPLANDING THIRD CULTURE By John Brockman
WHY THERE ALMOST CERTAINLY IS NO GOD By Richard Dawkins
THE UNIVERSE ON A STRING By Brian Greene
IN THE NEWS
The Sun: War & Peace By Michael Shermer
Wall Street Journal: PAGE ONE — Entrepreneur Puts Himself Up for Study In Genetic 'Tell-All'... Dr. Venter Wants to Be First To Have His DNA Mapped; Risk of Blindness Revealed
The Colbert Report: Stephen Colbert Interviews Richard Dawkins
Bio-IT World: I’m a Celebrity, Get My Sequence! By Kevin Davies
Globe & Mail: Entangled in the Matrix Net By Dorothy Woodend
The Times: What I want for Christmas is...an anti-religion rant By Ruth Gledhill
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Edge 193— October 12, 2006
THE THIRD CULTURE
"Tuesday Night Is Sacred": THE ANNUAL THIRD CULTURE PUBLISHERS DINNER IN FRANKFURT
STEWART BRAND MEETS THE CYBERNETIC COUNTERCULTURE: By Fred Turner
DEVOTED ACTOR VERSUS RATIONAL ACTOR MODELS FOR UNDERSTANDING WORLD CONFLICT: Presented By Scott Atran To The National Security Council At The White House
IN THE NEWS
NPR: Richard Dakwins on "Science Friday"
(16,500 words)

Edge 192— September 18, 2006
THE THIRD CULTURE
THE PRINCIPLE OF MEDIOCRITY: Alexander Vilenkin
IN THE NEWS
The New York Times "Philanthropy Google’s Way: Not the Usual" By Katie Hafner
The Atlantic "Artificial Intelligentsia" By James Fallows
Chicago Tribune FALL ARTS PREVIEW "Culture shuffle play in a post-9/11 world" BY Julia Keller
(4,600 words)

Edge 190— August 16, 2006
THE THIRD CULTURE
• MY EINSTEIN: Essays by Twenty-Four of the World’s Leading Thinkers on the Man, His Work, and His Legacy
Edited by John Brockman
• BRAIDS: Lee Smolin
—New Scientist (Cover Story): "You Are Made Of Space-Time"
By Davide Castelvecchi
—Editorial: Loop quantum gravity increases its pull
IN THE NEWS
• Newsweek: "Poking a Stick Into The 'Hive Mind'" By Steven Levy
• Baltimore Sun: " In the combat over 'intelligent design,' science's defenders mount a counterattack" By Robert Lee Hotz
• Vail Daily: "Tackling evolution" By Alex Miller
• The Nipawin Journal: "Library Corner" By Nancy Budd
• Deseret Morning News (Salt Lake City) "Einstein, the man, dissected" By Dennis Lythgoe
• Santa Cruz Sentinel: "Essays on Einstein prove he's still a hot topic"
By Chris Watson
• Mining Gazette: "ID Discussed" By Kenneth Kraft
• Chicago Sun-Times: Paperback picks
(10,300 words)

Edge 189 — July 31, 2006
THE THIRD CULTURE
REASONABLE DOUBT By Rebecca Newberger Goldstein
IN THE NEWS
• Los Angeles Times Sunday Book Review: "Laws of Nature" By Robert Lee Hotz
• Nature: "Design Flaws" John Tyler Bonner reviews Intelligent Thought: science versus the Intelligent Design Movement edited by John Brockman
• The Guardian: "A Life in Science: The human factor" By Andrew Brown
• Nashville City Paper: New work evaluates, celebrates Albert Einstein By Ron Wynn
• Buffalo News: "Editor's Choice" By Jeff Simon
• The Daily Telegraph:"Pick of the Paperbacks" By Michael Bhasker
• Washington Post: "Relatively Fascinating: The Radicalism of Albert Einstein" By Dennis Drabelle
• Eurozine - L'Espill: Humanities and the third culture: By Francisco Fernández Buey
(3,450 words)

Edge 188— July 10, 2006
THE THIRD CULTURE
THE ENERGY OF EMPTY SPACE THAT ISN'T ZERO: Lawrence Krauss
IN THE NEWS
The Boston Globe: "Q&A With Jaron Lanier" By Harvey Blume
The Post & Courier Charleston — Good Morning Low Country: "Dangerous Ideas"
(5,060 words)

Edge 187 — June 29 2006
THE THIRD CULTURE
CONSTRUCTIVE BIOLOGY: George Church
THE REALITY CLUB
George Dyson on "Constructive Biology"
IN THE NEWS
Globe and Mail: "Science Fair " By Martin Levin
The Hindu - Business Line: "In Defence of Science" - D. Murali
Die Welt - "Jimmy Wales und der Planet Wikipedia" - Ulrike Langer
(7,175 words)

Edge 186 — June 22 2006
THE THIRD CULTURE
• LETTER TO MEMBERS OF CONGRESS BY CONTRIBUTORS TO INTELLIGENT THOUGHT
• Lawrence Krauss: HOW DO YOU FED-EX THE POPE?
THE REALITY CLUB
Stewart Kauffman and Scott Atran on Letter to Congress
IN THE NEWS
• Orlando Weekly: "Science vs. Stupid" By Jason Ferguson
• Arts & Letters Daily
• The Sun: "Scientists Take on Intelligent Design" By Paul R. Gross
• Slashdot: "A Look at the Editorial Changes on Wikipedia"
• Sueddeutsche Zeitung, FEUILLETON: "Digitaler Maoismus: Der Trugschluss des Kollektivismus im Internet"
Von Jaron Lanier
(6,700 words)

Edge 185— June 15, 2006
THE THIRD CULTURE
DARK MATTER By Martin Rees
THE REALITY CLUB
— Responses to "Digital Maoism: The Hazards of the New Online Collectivism" By Jaron Lanier from Joseph ("Yossi") Vardi, Peter Galison
— Response to "Quantim Monkeys" By Seth Lloyd from Rudy Rucker
IN THE NEWS
— Sueddeutche Zeitung: Lack of evidence (Aus Mangel an Beweisen):
Science debates faith and intelligent design By Andrian Kreye
— The New York Times: What's Online By Dan Mitchell
— Arts & Letters Dail: Articles of Note
— BoingBoing: Responses to Jaron Lanier's Crit of Online Collectivism By David Pescovitz
— Open Democracy: The real bias in Wikipedia
(5,100 words)

Edge 184 — June 8, 2006
THE THIRD CULTURE
QUANTUM MONKEYS : A Talk with Seth Lloyd
THE REALITY CLUB
—Steven Pinker, Martin Nowak, J. Craig Venter, Lee Smolin, Alan Guth respond to Seth Lloyd's "Quantum Monkeys"
— Responses to "Digital Maoism: The Hazards of the New Online Collectivism" By Jaron Lanier from Douglas Rushkoff, Quentin Hardy, Yochai Benkler, Clay Shirky, Cory Doctorow, Kevin Kelly, Esther Dyson, Larry Sanger, Fernanda Viegas & Martin Wattenberg, Jimmy Wales, George Dyson, Dan Gillmor, Howard Rheingold
—Stephen Budiansky on "Godel In A Nutshell" by Verena Huber-Dyson
IN THE NEWS
The Guardian: Jaron Lanier on the stupidity of the hive mind by Jack Schofield
Newsweek: Ideas: Intelligent Defense by Jerry Adler
(21,200 words)

Edge 183 — May 30, 2006
THE THIRD CULTURE
DIGITAL MAOISM: THE HAZARDS OF THE NEW ONLINE COLLECTIVISM
An Edge original essay by Jaron Lanier
(5,700 words)

Edge 182— May 22, 2006
THE THIRD CULTURE
THE SCIENCE OF HAPPINESS: A Talk with Daniel Gilbert
GÖDEL IN A NUTSHELL: Verena Huber-Dyson
THE NEW VIEW: The Opening Of The 24/7 New York City Apple Store Viewed From the Terrace at Edge Global Headquarters at Grand Army Plaza
THE REALITY CLUB
Nathan Myhrvold, Steve Wozniak, Steve Jurvetson, Linda Stone, Steve Lohr, John C. Dvorak, Jaron Lanier on "The New View"
IN THE NEWS
Newsweek: Ideas: Intelligent Defense By Jerry Adler
Boing Boing: Eyeballing the new 24/7 Apple store in NY By Xeni Jardin
Reader's Choice: The Genius's Genius
The Times: I'm so sorry, you fellows, but I always religiously avoid your sort By Anjana Ahuja
(4,500 words)

Edge 181— May 8, 2006
THE THIRD CULTURE
INTELLIGENT THOUGHT: SCIENCE VERSUS THE INTELLIGENT DESIGN MOVEMENT Edited by John Brockman
THE "GREAT" TRANSITION By Neil H. Shubin
THE REALITY CLUB
Dan Sperber, Daniel C. Dennett, Colin Tudge, Scott Atran, George Dyson on John Horgan's THE TEMPLETON FOUNDATION: A SKEPTIC'S TAKE
(7,400 words)

Edge 180— May 1, 2006
THE THIRD CULTURE
WHO'S AFRAID OF THE THIRD CULTURE?
by Gloria Origgi
THE REALITY CLUB
Daniel C. Dennett, George Johnson, Freeman Dyson, Richard Dawkins, Marc D. Hauser, Dan Sperber, Jerry Coyne, Leonard Susskind, Lee Smolin, Scott Atran on John Horgan's THE TEMPLETON FOUNDATION: A SKEPTIC'S TAKE
IN THE NEWS
London: The Times; Cambridge: Harvard Crimson; Santiago: Radar; Bangleadesh: The Financial Express; Stockholm: Attention; Amsterdam: De Groene Amsterdammer, NRC Handelsblad
(6,500 words)

Edge 179— April 7 , 2006
EDGE Webstats, First Three Months, 2006
THE THIRD CULTURE
THE TEMPLETON FOUNDATION: A SKEPTIC'S TAKE
by John Horgan
SPECULATIONS ON THE FUTURE OF SCIENCE
By Kevin Kelly
THE EDGE QUBIT DINNER 2006
(5,650 words)

Edge 178— March 23, 2006
THE THIRD CULTURE
"THE SELFISH GENE — THIRTY YEARS ON"
Daniel C Dennett (Tufts), Sir John Krebs, FRS (Zoology, Oxford), Matt Ridley, Ian McEwan, Richard Dawkins, FRS (Oxford); Chair: Melvyn Bragg; Organiser: Helena Cronin
HARVARD BOOKSTORE PRESENTS
A discussion about Science in the Age of Certainty
with John Brockman, Daniel C. Dennett, Daniel Gilbert, Marc D. Hauser, Elizabeth Spelke and Seth Lloyd
IN THE NEWS
Boston Globe — ON SCIENCE : "Deeply held (and unverifiable) beliefs
(14,400 words)

Edge 177—March 13, 2006
THE THIRD CULTURE
NPR: Talk of the Nation — What We Believe But Cannot Prove
TOTAL EARLY DETECTION; RAPID RESPONSE: Larry Brilliant's TED Prize Wish
WHO REALLY WON THE SUPER BOWL?: Marco Iacoboni
WHAT WE BELIEVE BUT CANNOT PROVE : U.S. Publication
ON THE ROAD
The Edge Annual Dinner, Monterey
eg | THE ENTERTAINMENT GATHERING, LOS ANGELES
The Edge London Science Dinner
Edge in Barcelon
IN THE NEWS
The New York Times, The Times, The Chronicle of Higher Education
(4,600 words)

Edge 175— January 6, 2006
THE WORLD QUESTION CENTER
The Edge Annual Question — 2006
"WHAT IS YOUR DANGEROUS IDEA?"
IN THE NEWS
Arts & Letters Daily; The Guardian, The Times, The Telegraph, New York Times, Boing Boing, Yahoo News, Huffington Post, The Times, Toronto Star, Rocky Mountain news, Boston Globe, Observer, El Pais, La Vanguardia, el Pais, El Mundo. La Vanguadia (Cover Story)
(75,000 words)

Edge 174— November
THE THIRD CULTURE
KOSMOPOLIS 05: THE THIRD CULTURE IN BARCELONA: Marc D. Hauser, Lee Smolin, Robert Trivers, Eduard Punset, John Brockman
THE UNIVERSAL LIBRARY By George Dyson
IN THE NEWS
AD Magazine: "Sprakaloos" (Speechless) - Katinka Matson's Flowers In Amsterdam
NEWSWEEK
Great reading in George Dyson's essay "Turing's Cathedral"
(2,800 words)

Edge 173— November 14, , 2005
THE THIRD CULTURE
David Deutsch recipient of The $100,000 Edge of Computation Science Prize
(2,800 words)

Edge 172— October 28, 2005
THE THIRD CULTURE
The $100 Edge of Computation Science Prize — The Nominees are...
IN THE NEWS
The Telegraph: "Is science driven by inspired guesswork?" by Ian McEwan
(1,890 words)

Edge 130— December 15, 2003
THE THIRD CULTURE
THE LANDSCAPE: A Talk with LEONARD SUSSKIND
IN THE NEWS
BOOK TV | C-SPAN2
The New Humanists: Science at the Edge
John Brockman, Daniel Dennett, Marvin Minsky
(7,250 words)

Edge 111— February 13, 2003
THE THIRD CULTURE
LISA RANDALL: THEORIES OF THE BRANE
NICHOLAS HUMPHREY: SEVEN SCIENTISTS: AN EDGE OBSEQUY FOR THE ASTRAUNAUTS OF THE SPACE SHUTTLE COLUMBIA — Contributors: Oliver Morton, Gregory Benford, George Dyson, Nicholas Humphey, Paul Davies, Martin Rees
THE WORLD QUESTION CENTER 2003 — NEW RESPONSES: Philip Brockman • George Smoot • John McWhorter • Sherry Turkle • Gregory Benford • Vera John-Steiner • Paul MacCready • Margaret Wertheim
IN THE NEWS
"The Engine of Prosperity: Academics Demand A New Science Policy from Bush"
SUDDEUTSCHE ZEITUNG
By Andrian Kreye
(16,000 words)

Edge 109— December 19, 2002
THE THIRD CULTURE
MARTIN REES: THE ULTRA EARLYUNIVERSE
IN THE NEWS
THE NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE
The Year In Ideas —2002
"Scanner Photography" (Katinka Matson)
By Paul Tough
December 15, 2002
(4,825 words)

Edge 80— January 9, 2001
THE THIRD CULTURE
THE WORLD QUESTION CENTER 2001
"What Questions Have Disappeared?"
NATURAL BORN CYBORGS
By Andy Clark
THE REALITY CLUB
Joseph Traub on Quantum Computation
(34,000 words)

Edge 79— November 23, 2000
THE THIRD CULTURE
GOLDSMITH VS. ZIMMERMAN
By Geroge Dyson; Introduction By Freeman Dyson
THE REALITY CLUB
Jaron Lanier , Bernardo Huberman on "How Democracy Works" by Danny Hillis
(2,507 words)

Edge 61— October 25, 1999
THE THIRD CULTURE
THE THING THAT I CALL DOUG"
A Talk with Douglas Rushkoff
(10,281 words)

Edge 47— November 24, 1998
THE THIRD CULTURE
"BIRTH ORDER AND THE NURTURE MISASSUMPTION: A REPLY TO JUDITH HARRIS"
by Frank Sulloway
THE REALITY CLUB
• Philip W. Anderson on John H. McWhorter's "The Demise of Affirmative Action at UC Berkeley"
• John H. McWhorter responds to David Bunnell and Daniel C. Dennett
• Catherine Bateson, George Dyson, Douglas Rushkoff, and Duncan Steel on Stewart Brand's "The Clock of the Long Now"
EDGE IN THE NEWS
En Route — AirCanada October 1998, Cyber Dandy, Super Web MEETING OF THE MINDS (www.Edge.org)
(11,159 words)