MEET THE PROPRIETOR OF THE CLUB OF GENIUSES. John Brockman is that type of person who is able to gather around himself in one place the most creative and intelligent people. [1]

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[ Mon. Oct. 1. 2012 ]

In spite of his serious expression, his friends and acquaintances say that he is a man of enviable rhetoric, able to hold the attention of anyone. Brockman is the name behind the Edge (edge.org), the virtual forum that brings together big names of Global Science — such as Craig Venter, one of the greatest, who is responsible for sequencing the human genome, Steven Pinker, the Canadian psychologist named one of Time magazine's 100 most influential people in the world, and Richard Dawkins, the evolutionary biologist, famous for his defense of atheism. 

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