Edge in the News

SCIENCE STRAIGHT FROM THE SOURCE
Graham Lawton, deputy editor, New Scientist [8.15.11]

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DOT EARTH: Steve Schneider’s Climate View
Andrew Revkin, The New York Times - Dot Earth [7.19.11]

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BOOK REVIEW: IS THE INTERNET CHANGING THE WAY YOU THINK? ... The book would be an ambitious undertaking for any individual. By breaking up the task into more than 100 essays, Brockman gets witty treatment from a diverse crowd.
Nathan Seppa, Science News [6.4.11]

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"LOOK AT THE WORLD THROUGH THE EYES OF A FOOL" ... Stewart Brand talks about his preference for nuclear power, Germany's cultural pessimism and the importance of ideology in politics.
Martin Eiermann, The European [5.30.11]

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WINNING ARGUMENT: AS A 'NEW' CRITIQUE OF REASON, ARGUMENTATIVE THEORY IS TRITE BUT USEFUL ... Some smart people are nonetheless impressed by argumentative theory. ... The journalists Chris Mooney, Sharon Begley and Jonah Lehrer have touted the work ...
John Horgan, Scientific American [5.30.11]

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HAKU MO'OLELO ... Psychologist David Pizarro discusses the phenomenon of "apophenia," a tendency of the brain to find relationships based on superstition - such as an athlete wearing the same socks while winning.
Edwin Tanji, The Maui News [5.27.11]

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ROAD TO THE UNIFICATION OF SCIENCE AND HUMANITIES ... However, teachers like Maria Burguete or Lui Lam in his book Science Matters: Humanities as a complex system , proposed a new scientific framework, focusing on a holistic approach that could justify th
El Correo Gallego [5.26.11]

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HOW TO THINK YOUR WAY OUT OF A BAD MARRIAGE ... In a particularly incisive column published earlier this year, New York Times columnist David Brooks surveyed some of the best ideas put forward in an Edge.org symposium that asked 164 contributors the quest
Daniel Honan, Big Think [5.24.11]

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DOT EARTH: EMBRACING THE ANTHROPOCENE ... (Read this Edge.org essay by Brand for his explanation of that change.) “Troposphere, whatever,” Justice Scalia replied.
Andrew Revkin, The New York Times - Dot Earth [5.20.11]

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"BENEDICTINE LAUNCHES CENTER FOR LIFELONG LEARNING" ... presented a list of five questions, four of which were from edge.org, an online philosophers’ site. ...
William J. Carroll, The Daily Herald [5.12.11]

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"BETTER LIVING THROUGH SCIENTIFIC CONCEPTS" ...The Edge magazine asked 159 thinkers a great question ... the first reply is from Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman ...
Ezra Klein, Washington Post [5.12.11]

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"3 WAYS THE BRAIN BETRAYS US" ... Over at Edge, they're asking a bunch of big thinkers a big question ... and it's fun and interesting to read ...
Jacob Goldstein, NPR [5.12.11]

 

 

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Better living through scientific concepts
Ezra Klein, http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/post/better-living-through-scient… [5.12.11]

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"THE TIME HORIZON" ... each reader can see these ideas would suggest a strong inspiration for his own. For example to me is the concept of "Deep Time" by Martin Rees. ...
Li Lan, Tia Sang (Vietnam) [5.11.11]

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" 'I BELIEVE ART CAN CHANGE THE WORLD' "... have always believed in a third culture idea, in developing a third space. A great model is John Brockman and his www.edge.org.
Nadine Kreisberger, Indian Express [5.8.11]

 

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"IS A HUMAN 'HERE AND NOW' BIAS CLOUDING CLIMATE REASONING? ... Tanenbaum’s commentary on climate risk and response, or lack thereof, leads back to the recent Edge.org question: Do we need to bolster our cognitive toolkit? ...
Andrew C. Revkin, The New York Times [5.8.11]

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"THE REASON WE REASON" ... In the most recent edition of Edge.org, there’s a great conversation with Mercier ...
by Jonah Lehrer, Wired [5.4.11]

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"CHANNELING THE MICROBIOME" ... Stewart Brand’s wonderfully articulate response begins by recalling Carl Woese’s estimate that bacteria make up 80 percent of Earth’s biomass: ...
By Sarah Greene, The Scientist [5.1.11]

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"THE SCIENTIST" ... Two responses to Edge.org’s The World Question Center 2011 ...
The Scientist [5.1.11]

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"A MOSES FOR THE 21st CENTURY"... Pick up the latest book by John Brockman ... scientists, philosophers and writers from their own fields all have a say about the rise of the Internet. It produces a cacophony of techno lovers and haters of ripe and green
Kristel Segeren & Arjan Terpstra, Dagblad De Pers [4.30.11]

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