2000 : WHAT IS TODAY'S MOST IMPORTANT UNREPORTED STORY?

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2000 : WHAT IS TODAY'S MOST IMPORTANT UNREPORTED STORY?

Abrupt Climate Change William H. Calvin Theoretical Neurobiologist; Affiliate Professor Emeritus,...	The Reasons For Right-Wing Extremism In Europe And The U.S. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Psychologist; Director, Quality of Life Research Center,...
What Scientific Research Is Really Like Pattie Maes Professor, MIT MediaLab; Program Head, MIT's Program...	The Size Of The Digital Universe George Dyson Science Historian; Author, Analogia
America's Descent Into Computer-Aided Unconsciousness And Consumer Fascism Douglas Rushkoff Media Analyst; Documentary Writer; Author, Throwing Rocks...	People are Morphing into Machines. Rodney A. Brooks Panasonic Professor of Robotics (emeritus); Former Director...
How Will The Internet Influence Democracy? Howard Rheingold Communications Expert; Author, Smart Mobs	(1) African Civil Wars; (2) Evolutionary Theory Is Not Intuitive; Creationism Is Howard Gardner Hobbs Professor of Cognition and Education, Harvard...
The Remaking Of Personality As Seen In Language. James J. O'Donnell Classics Scholar, University Librarian, ASU; Author, Pagans	The Potentially Glorious, or Dangerous, Massive Cultural Impact of Mitochondrial DNA Studies. Sally M. Gall librettist, poet, critic, and scholar
The Immortalization of Humanity Clifford Pickover Author, The Math Book, The Physics Book, and The Medical...	The Politicians Who Are Running On Education Platforms Don't Actually Care About Education Roger Schank CEO, Socratic Arts Inc.; John Evans Professor Emeritus of...
(1) The closing of the High Flux Beam Reactor at Brookhaven National Lab; (2) Eppawala Philip W. Anderson Nobel Laureate; Physicist	The World Isn't Going to Hell John Gilmore Activist
That There Are So Many Important Unreported Stories. Hans Weise filmmaker, writer, and Web developer	The Internationalization of the Third Culture Lee Smolin Physicist, Perimeter Institute; Author, Einstein's...
How does a brain give rise to a mind? Stephen Grossberg Principal founders of the fields of computational...	The World Is Losing Potable Water At A Rate That Is Unprecedented. Eric J. Hall CFO of rightscenter.com, Inc
The Quiet Resurgence of Psychedelic Compounds as Instruments of Both Spiritual and Scientific Exploration John Horgan Director, Center for Science Writings, Stevens Institute of...	Parenting Styles Have Changed But Children Have Not Judith Rich Harris Independent Investigator and Theoretician; Author, The...
Quality Pigs Brian Goodwin Professor of Biology at Schumacher College	The Concept Of Ecology Stephen R. Kellert Social Ecologist, Yale
Science and technology Editor Philip Elmer DeWitt Writer, Editor, Fortune	The Peace Dividend Stewart Brand Founder, the Whole Earth Catalog; Co-founder, The Well; Co-...
How The Human Brain Models The World Arnold Trehub Psychologist, University of Massachusetts, Amherst; Author...	The End Of Money Thomas Petzinger editor, reporter
The Transformation Of The American Musical Ear John McWhorter Professor of Linguistics and Western Civilization, Columbia...	The Planet Itself Is Becoming Self Aware Ivan Amato Freelance print and radio Writer; Editor of the Pathways of...
Women Are Still Considered Inferior To Men Sylvia Paull founder of Gracenet	Decoding the Human Genome is a Long Term Project Peter Cochrane Founding Partner, Formicio; Chairman & CEO, Cochrane...
The most important unreported story Bart Kosko Information Scientist and Professor of Electrical...	The Way Stories About Complex Scientific Controversies Are Often Unintentionally Mis-reported by the Mainstream Media. Stephen Schneider climatologist, is a professor in the Department of...
There Are No Things. Piet Hut professor of astrophysics at the Institute for Advanced...	The Roads Not Taken Hans Ulrich Obrist Curator, Serpentine Gallery, London; Editor: A Brief...
The Globalization of Illness Dean Ornish Founder and President of the non-profit Preventive Medicine...	The Disconnect Between Wealth and Well-Being: It's Not the Economy, Stupid David G. Myers Professor of Psychology, Hope College; Co-author,...
The Enduring Vitality of the More Moderate Kinds of Religions Freeman Dyson Physicist, Institute of Advanced Study; Author, Disturbing...	The Erosion of Traditional Ellis Rubinstein Chief Executive Officer of the New York Academy of Sciences.
The Death of the Paragraph Keith Devlin Mathematician; Executive Director, H-STAR Institute,...	Educational Inequities Joseph LeDoux Professor of Neural Science, Psychology, Psychiatry, and...
The Population Fizzle Kevin Kelly Senior Maverick, Wired; Author, What Technology Wants and...	The Imminent Paradigm Shift In Understanding The Conscious Mind Stuart Hameroff Professor, Anesthesiology and Psychology Associate Director...
That the Human Mind is Less and Less In the Head Andy Clark Professor of Cognitive Philosophy, Department of Philosophy...	The Classification Theorem for Finite Simple Groups Verena Huber-Dyson 1923-2016; Emeritus Professor, Formerly, Philosophy...
Hidden Consequences of Our Daily Choices as Consumers of Products and Services Daniel Goleman Psychologist; Author (with Richard Davidson), Altered Traits	The Reduction Since 1993 In American Crime Is An Illusion David Lykken Behavioral Geneticist and Emeritus Professor, University of...
The End of Gene Control Anne Fausto-Sterling Professor of Biology and Women's Studies at Brown...	a) The Extraordinary Proliferation of Jobs and Careers; b) James P. Carse's Jewel of a Book, Finite and Infinite Games Julian Barbour Theoretical physicist; Author, The Janus Point
How Great the Kids Are Today. Philip Brockman Physicist	The True Nature of Much of Human Illness Eludes Mankind. Mehmet C. Oz Irving Assistant Professor, Department of Surgery, Columbia...
Two Stories, One Encouraging, the Other Worrying Lance Knobel Independent Writer and Strategist	A Lost Civilization Eberhard Zangger Managing director of science communications
Exercise Can Make you Smarter Terrence J. Sejnowski Computational Neuroscientist; Francis Crick Professor, the...	The End of the Brain Eduardo Punset Scientist; Spanish Television Presenter; Author, The...
The Lack of Services to Heal Abused Children Jeff Jacobs Founder of Civitas Initiative	The Fact That There Are No Longer ANY Unreported Stories Raphael Kasper physicist, is Associate Vice Provost for Research at...
The Walkie-Talkie Theory: Bipedalism Was Necessary For Human Speech Evolution Robert Provine Professor Emeritus, University of Maryland, Baltimore...	The Peculiar Feedback Loops - Both Negative and Positive - That Drive Media Reporting of Technological and Science Issues Charles Arthur Freelance Technology Journalist
The Swiftness of the Societal Changes That Occurred Two-thirds of the Way Through the Century Kenneth W. Ford Retired Director of the American Institute of Physics	The Dramatic Fall in the Rate of Growth in Global Population Peter Schwartz Futurist; Senior Vice President for Global Government...
The Farce of the Slacker Generation (Or What the Hell Happened to Generation X)? Jason Calacanis Internet Entrepreneur; Angel Investor	The Coming Transformation in Human Life and Society in the Post-Genomic World Steven R. Quartz Neuroscientist; Professor of Philosophy, Caltech; Co-author...
Discrimination in the Mating Market David M. Buss Professor of Psychology, University of Texas, Austin;...	Survival Depends on the Race Between Education and Catastrophe Leon M. Lederman Director emeritus of Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
The Loss of our Species' Biography Steven Pinker Johnstone Family Professor, Department of Psychology;...	The End of Clausewitzian War Jaron Lanier Computer Scientist; Musician; Author, Who Owns The Future?
The Gradual The Growth of a Prosperous Middle Class in China and in India Denis Dutton Philosopher; Founder and Editor, Arts & Letters Daily;...	Appropriation of the Internet as an Effective and Powerful Tool of Large Scale Global Social Protest Phil Leggiere free-lance journalist
Chemistry for non-chemists; Entrepreneurism Philip Campbell Editor-in-Chief of Nature since 1995; Beginning summer 2018...	The Information Revolution Requires A Matching Education Revolution Robert Hormats Vice-Chairman of Goldman Sachs International.
Linda Tripp's Makeover Thomas de Zengotita Anthropologist	Maybe Media Is the Real Opiate of the People Denise Caruso Digital Commerce/Technology Columnist, the New York Times
The Non-US Uniform Mobile Standard David Braunschvig Adjunct Senior Fellow for Business and Foreign Policy,...	Maslow's America Daniel Pink Contributing Editor, Wired; Author, To Sell is Human
The Rise of Organic Farming in Europe Rupert Sheldrake biologist and author	A Dollar a Week Will End World Hunger Tor Nørretranders Writer; Speaker; Thinker, Copenhagen, Denmark
Social Policy Implications of the New Happiness Research Geoffrey Miller Evolutionary psychologist, NYU Stern Business School and...	The sexual abuse of children by women Timothy Taylor Jan Eisner Professor of Archaeology, Comenius University in...
The Consequences of Choices Made About The Internet Today Marney Morris Professor of Interaction Design, Engineering Department,...	Henry Warwick My friend, John Brockman, asked me, What is the most important unreported story of the year? Henry Warwick artist, composer, and scientist
Weird Ape Fouls Planet Delta Willis Paleontologist; Author, Hominid Gang	Good News Nancy Etcoff Psychologist and faculty member of the Harvard Medical...
The End of the Dream of a More Gentle World Carlo Rovelli Theoretical Physicist; Aix-Marseille University, in the...	Indigenous Science Margaret Wertheim science writer and commentator
How Kids Replaced the Generals Joseph "Yossi" Vardi chairman of International Technologies	Shifting Empires and Power Thomas A. Bass Professor of English and Journalism, State University of...
Emergence of an Integrated Human-Earth Organism Richard Potts Director of The Human Origins Program	The Death of Nations Rafael Núñez Professor, Department of Cognitive Science, University of...
The End of the Nation-State Robert Aunger Biological Anthropologist; Author, Gaining Control	Response to Margaret Wertheim Paul Davies Theoretical physicist; cosmologist; astro-biologist; co-...
Infection Is Much Bigger Than We Thought, Bigger Than We Think, And Perhaps Bigger Than We Can Think Paul W. Ewald Professor of Biology, Amherst College; Author, Plague Time	Response to Paul Davies Margaret Wertheim science writer and commentator
New York Times Sells Out! David Bunnell Founder, PC Magazine, PC World, Macworld, Macworld Expo,...	Is the Market on Prozac? Randolph Nesse Research Professor of Life Sciences, Director (2014-2019),...
The last word on Y2K: The Y1K Problem W. Brian Arthur External Professor, Santa Fe Institute; Visiting Researcher...	I. A new kind of object: From Rorschach to Relationship Sherry Turkle Abby Rockefeller Mauzé Professor of the Social Studies of...