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 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 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)