http://edge.org/feeds en-us John Brockman John Brockman RSS Feed The self is something that is central to a lot of psychological questions and, in fact, a lot of psychologists have difficulty describing their work without positing the notion of a self. It's such a common daily, profound, indivisible experience for most of us. Some people do manage to achieve states of divided self or anatta, no self, they're really skilled Buddhists. But for the majority ... http://www.edge.org/conversation/essentialism- 2012-05-17 This is a hormone that has fascinated me. It's a small molecule that seems to be doing remarkable things. The variation we see in this hormone comes from a number of different sources. One of those sources is genes; many different genes can influence how much testosterone each of us produces, and I just wanted to share with you my fascination with this hormone, because it's helping us take t... http://www.edge.org/conversation/testosterone-on-my-mind 2012-04-30 INTRODUCTION by Freeman Dyson A Cultural History of Physics is a grand monument to the life of its author. Karoly Simonyi was teacher first, scholar second, and scientist third. His book likewise has three components. First a text, describing the history of science over the last four thousand years in a rich context of philosophy, art and literature. Second, a collection of illustratio... http://www.edge.org/conversation/a-cultural-history-of-physics 2012-04-09 What we're missing now, on another level, is not just biology, but cosmology. People treat the digital universe as some sort of metaphor, just a cute word for all these products. The universe of Apple, the universe of Google, the universe of Facebook, that these collectively constitute the digital universe, and we can only see it in human terms and what does this do for us? We're missing... http://www.edge.org/conversation/a-universe-of-self-replicating-code 2012-03-26 Introduction Here's a selection of conversations published on Edge that are currently resonating in the media and cybersphere as the ideas appear in books, articles, reviews, op-eds, blogs, NPR, television (Charlie Rose, The Colbert Report, Bill Moyers), YouTube and other online media, talks and panels at Davos, TED, DLD, Zurich.Minds. John Brockman 'For those seeking substa... http://www.edge.org/conversation/science-is-the-only-news 2012-03-14 'This Will Make You Smarter gives us better tools to think about the world and is eminently practical for life day to day. The people in this book lead some of the hottest fields.' David Brooks, from the Foreword 'The world's smartest website ... Edge is a salon for the world's finest minds' The Guardian 'Edge.org has become an epicenter of bleeding-edge insight across sc... http://www.edge.org/conversation/this-will-make-you-smarter 2012-02-17 Since the mid-1960s John Brockman has been at the cutting edge of ideas. He is a passionate advocate of both science and the arts, and his website Edge is a salon for the world's finest minds To say that John Brockman is a literary agent is like saying that David Hockney is a photographer. For while it's true that Hockney has indeed made astonishingly creative use of... http://www.edge.org/conversation/-quotthe-man-who-runs-the-world-39s-smartest-website-quot-in-the-observer 2012-01-08 So here is something staring you in the face, an extraordinary syndrome, utterly mysterious, where a person wants his normal limb removed. Why does this happen? There are all kinds of crazy theories about it including Freudian theories. One theory asserts, for example, that it's an attention seeking behavior. This chap wants attention so he asks you to remove his arm. It doesn't make any sen... http://www.edge.org/conversation/adventures_behavioral_neurology 2012-02-21 http://www.edge.org/conversation/-quotwhat-do-you-think-marshall-mcluhan-would-have-said-about-ebooks-how-do-they-change-the-message-of-books-quot 2012-02-21 Untitled, 2012 Katinka Matson [click to enlarge] http://www.edge.org/conversation/image-2012 2012-01-01 'The World's Smartest Website.' John Naughton, The Observer Scientists' greatest pleasure comes from theories that derive the solution to some deep puzzle from a small set of simple principles in a surprising way. These explanations are called 'beautiful' or 'elegant'. Historical examples are Kepler's explanation of complex planetary motions as simp... http://www.edge.org/annual-question/what-is-your-favorite-deep-elegant-or-beautiful-explanation 2012 James Flynn has defined 'shorthand abstractions' (or 'SHA's') as concepts drawn from science that have become part of the language and make people smarter by providing widely applicable templates ('market', 'placebo', 'random sample,' 'naturalistic fallacy,' are a few of his examples). His idea is that the abstraction is available as a single cognitive chunk which can be used as an element i... http://www.edge.org/annual-question/what-scientific-concept-would-improve-everybodys-cognitive-toolkit 2011 The Edge Annual Question 2010 HOW IS THE INTERNET CHANGING THE WAY YOU THINK? Read any newspaper or magazine and you will notice the many flavors of the one big question that everyone is asking today. Or you can just stay on the page and read recent editions of Edge ... Playwright Richard Foreman asks abou... http://www.edge.org/annual-question/how-is-the-internet-changing-the-way-you-think 2010 New tools equal new perceptions. Through science we create technology and in using our new tools we recreate ourselves. But until very recently in our history, no democratic populace, no legislative body, ever indicated by choice, by vote, how this process should play out. Nobody ever voted for printing. Nobody ever voted for electricity. Nobody ever voted for radio, the telephone, t... http://www.edge.org/annual-question/what-will-change-everything 2009 The Edge Annual Question 2008 When thinking changes your mind, that's philosophy. When God changes your mind, that's faith. When facts change your mind, that's science. WHAT HAVE YOU CHANGED YOUR MIND ABOUT? WHY? Science is based on evidence. What happens when the data change? How have scientific findings or argume... http://www.edge.org/annual-question/what-have-you-changed-your-mind-about-why 2008 10TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION EDITOR'S NOTE: Edge began the last week in December, 1996 as an email to about fifty people. In 2006, Edge, which celebrates 'the third culture', had more than five million individual user sessions. To celebrate our 10th anniversary we are pleased to present the 2007 Edge Annual Question, as well as 'Nine Flo... http://www.edge.org/annual-question/what-are-you-optimistic-about 2007 'I can answer the question, but am I bright enough to ask it?' James Lee Byars, founder, The World Question Center 'Fantastically stimulating...It's like the crack cocaine of the thinking world.... Once you start, you can't stop thinking about that question.' BBC Radio 4 The Edge Annual Question 2006 WHAT IS YOUR DANGEROUS IDEA?... http://www.edge.org/annual-question/what-is-your-dangerous-idea 2006 'I can answer the question, but am I bright enough to ask it?' James Lee Byars, founder, The World Question Center 'Fantastically stimulating...It's like the crack cocaine of the thinking world.... Once you start, you can't stop thinking about that question.' BBC Radio 4 'WHAT DO YOU BELIEVE IS TRUE EVEN THOUGH YOU CANNOT PROVE IT?' ... http://www.edge.org/annual-question/what-do-you-believe-is-true-even-though-you-cannot-prove-it 2005 'Big, deep and ambitious questions....breathtaking in scope. Keep watching The World Question Center.' New Scientist THE EDGE ANNUAL QUESTION 2004 'Say the words,' said the Ape Man, repeating, and the figures in the doorway echoed this, with a threat in the tone of their voices. I realized that I had t... http://www.edge.org/annual-question/whats-your-law 2004 'Big, deep and ambitious questions....breathtaking in scope. Keep watching The World Question Center.' New Scientist 2003 'What are the pressing scientific issues for the nation and the world, and what is your advice on how I can begin to deal with them?' GWB The following message is th... http://www.edge.org/annual-question/what-are-the-pressing-scientific-issues-for-the-nation-and-the-world-and-what-is-your-advice-on-how 2003 On Sunday, October 16th, Edge, at the invitation of London's leading curator, and long-time collaborator, Hans Ulrich Obrist (HUO), co-director of the Serpentine Gallery, participated in The Serpentine Gallery Garden Marathon, the sixth in the Gallery's acclaimed Marathon series. The Garden Marathon explored the concept of the garden. As Obrist noted, 'A product of the creative encounte... http://www.edge.org/event/special/serpentine-gallery-edge-2011 2011-10-16 Daniel Kahneman, Martin Nowak, Steven Pinker, Leda Cosmides, Michael Gazzaniga, Elaine Pagels 'We'd certainly be better off if everyone sampled the fabulous Edge symposium, which, like the best in science, is modest and daring all at once.' David Brooks, New York Times column In July, Edge held its annual Master Class in Napa, California on the theme: 'The Science of Human Nat... http://www.edge.org/event/master-classes/master-class-2011the-science-of-human-nature 2011-07-15 Introduction Three years ago, Edge collaborated with The Serpentine Gallery in London in a program of 'table-top experiments' as part of the Serpentine's Experiment Marathon . This live event was featured along with the Edge/Serpentine collaboration: 'What Is Your Formula? Your Equation? Your Algorithm? Formulae For the 21st Century.' Hans Ulrich Obrist, curator of the Ser... http://www.edge.org/event/special/edge-serpentine-gallery-maps-for-the-21st-century 2010-10-16 The Origins Initiative at ASU, under the leadership of its Director, physicist and Edge contributor Lawrence Krauss, is a University-wide initiative to focus on deep and foundational questions ranging across the entire spectrum of scholarship at ASU. The three-day Origins Symposium explored forefront questions at the edge of knowledge: from the origin of the universe and the laws o... http://www.edge.org/event/special/kraussfest-2009 2009-04-03 'For those seeking substance over sheen, the occasional videos released at Edge.org hit the mark. The Edge Foundation community is a circle, mainly scientists but also other academics, entrepreneurs, and cultural figures. Edge's long-form interview videos are a deep-dive into the daily lives and passions of its subjects, and their passions are presented without primers or apologies... http://www.edge.org/event/special/videos 2007-02-01 Last year Edge received an invitation from Juan Insua, Director of Kosmpolis, a traditional literary festival in Barcelona, to stage an event at Kosmopolis 05 as part of an overall program 'that ranges from the lasting light of Cervantes to the (ambiguous) crisis of the book format, from a literary mapping of Barcelona's Raval district to the dilemma raised by the influence of the Internet i... http://www.edge.org/event/on-the-road/-trivers-smolin-hauser-quotdarwin-y-la-tercera-cultura-quot-in-barcelona 2006-05-30 THE SELFISH GENE: THIRTY YEARS ON Thursday 16 March 2006 6.45pm to 8.15pm The Old Theatre (Old Building, LSE, Houghton Street, London WC2A 2AE) It is thirty years since The Selfish Gene revolutionised our understanding of living things. Since then, Richard Dawkins' pursuit of the implications of science has informed areas as diverse as biology, psychology, philosophy and relig... http://www.edge.org/event/on-the-road/darwin-lse 2006-03-16 ...on the research on mind, brain, and behavior that may be relevant to gender disparities in the sciences, including the studies of bias, discrimination and innate and acquired difference between the sexes. Harvard University • Mind/Brain/Behavior Initiative The Mind Brain and Behavior Inter-Faculty Initiative (M... http://www.edge.org/event/special/the-science-of-gender-and-sciencepinker-vs-spelkea-debate 2005-05-16 George Dyson, Stewart Brand, John Brockman, Kevin Kelly This year, Edge@DLD is presenting a session with three of the original members of Edge who year in and year out provide the core sounding board for the ideas and information we present to the public. I refer to them in private correspondance as 'The Council'). Every year, beginning late summer, I consult with Stewart Br... http://www.edge.org/event/special/edge-dld-2011 2011-01-23 We make a mistake when we think of cancer as a noun. It is not something youhave, it is something you do. Your body is probably cancering all the time. What keeps it under control is a conversation that is happening between your cells, and the language of that conversation is proteins. Proteomics will allow us to listen in on that conversation, and that will lead to much better way to treat ... http://www.edge.org/event/master-classes/the-edge-master-class-2010-cancering-listening-in-on-the-body-39s-proteomic-conversation 2010-12-27 Artist http://www.edge.org/memberbio/aalam_wassef Artist specializing in data visualization http://www.edge.org/memberbio/aaron_koblin Founding Editor, 3QuarksDaily.com http://www.edge.org/memberbio/abbas_s_raza Professor of Philosophy at Birkbeck College, University of London, and a Supernumerary Fellow of St Anne's College, Oxford; Author, Ideas That Matter http://www.edge.org/memberbio/ac_grayling Psychologist; Assistant Professor of Marketing, Stern School of Business, NYU http://www.edge.org/memberbio/adam_alter Founder, Seed Media Group http://www.edge.org/memberbio/adam_bly Founder, Rayz http://www.edge.org/memberbio/adrian_scott Artist; Curator; Architectural Designer (The Bird's Nest); Cultural And Social Commentator; Activist http://www.edge.org/memberbio/ai_weiwei Cultural psychologist, writer, and consultant http://www.edge.org/memberbio/alana_conner Actor, Writer, Director; Host of PBS program The Human Spark; Author, Things I Overheard While Talking to Myself http://www.edge.org/memberbio/alan_alda http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/may/06/twitter-top-feeds-celebrity-tweeters?INTCMP=SRCH 2012-05-06 http://www.internazionale.it/opinioni/giuliano-milani/2012/05/10/laboratori-aperti/ 2012-05-10 http://www.neontommy.com/news/2012/03/book-review-will-make-you-smarter-actually-does-makes-you-smarter 2012-04-21 http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/books/digitally-altered-20120329-1vz9r.html 2012-04-30 http://tucsoncitizen.com/shelflife/2012/03/22/nonfiction-getting-hired-and-staying-hired-becoming-smarter-attitudes-and-helping-the-poor/ 2012-04-22 http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/just-my-type/arts-and-labor 2012-03-29 http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/brainiac/ 2012-03-27 http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/03/04/mark-pagel-in-wired-for-culture-makes-a-strong-case-for-cultural-determinism.html 2012-03-04 http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fcultura.elpais.com%2Fcultura%2F2012%2F03%2F02%2Factualidad%2F1330718709_017265.html 2012-03-02 http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.svd.se%2Fkultur%2Funderstrecket%2Fverkligheten-en-blind-flack-i-skonlitteratur_6895895.svd 2012-03-05