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SCIENCE IS NOT YOUR ENEMY: An Impassioned Plea To Neglected Novelists, Embattled Professors, And Tenure-Less Historians 7 Aug 2013 | 08:30 pm
By Steven Pinker [8.6.13] [ED.NOTE: In a brilliant and imporant essay "Science Is Not Your Enemy", published today in The New Republic, Steven Pinker, one our most important public intellectuals, p...
THREE ADDITIONAL POINTS 3 Aug 2013 | 03:49 am
George Dyson [8.2.13] I might add three points that were not included in the piece I wrote for FAZ in Germany and also published by Edge, roughly: 1) The Corona program was of such immense histo...
CARR RESPONDS TO DYSON 1 Aug 2013 | 01:31 am
Nicholas G. Carr [7.31.13] Dyson , in his essay "NSA: The Decision Problem", has done us a favor by connecting the dots, both backward to the origins of modern predictive algorithms and forward t...
NSA: THE DECISION PROBLEM 24 Jul 2013 | 01:01 am
George Dyson [7.27.13] The ultimate goal of signals intelligence and analysis is to learn not only what is being said, and what is being done, but what is being thought. With the proliferation of se...
TECHNOLOGY AND INNOVATION AS A NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY 12 Jul 2013 | 09:24 pm
A Conversation with David Moinina Sengeh [7.12.13] I think beyond me, beyond our individual silos, to achieve prosperity and development in a place like Sierra Leone does not involve giving free de...
FREE WILL, DETERMINISM, QUANTUM THEORY AND STATISTICAL FLUCTUATIONS: A PHYSICIST'S TAKE 8 Jul 2013 | 07:08 am
Carlo Rovelli [7.8.13] Any attempt to link this discussion to moral, ethical or legal issues, as is often been done, is pure nonsense. The fact that it is possible to say that a criminal has been dr...
ASK A SCIFOO QUESTION? 27 Jun 2013 | 08:03 pm
You can answer the question, but are you bright enough to ask it? — James Lee Byars INTRODUCTION by John Brockman The Edge motto, adopted from the artist James Lee Byars' "World Question Center" i...
NAPOLEON CHAGNON: BLOOD IS THEIR ARGUMENT 9 May 2013 | 11:34 pm
An Edge Special Event Napoleon Chagnon, Steven Pinker, Richard Wrangham, Daniel C. Dennett, David Haig [6.6.13] (L-R) Daniel C. Dennett, Napoleon Chagnon, David Haig, Steven Pinker, Richard Wrangha...
DAWKINS TOPS PROSPECT'S LIST OF "WORLD THINKERS OF 2013" 26 Apr 2013 | 12:47 am
Edge Editor [4.25.13] World Thinkers 2013 by Prospect / April 24, 2013 The results of Prospect's world thinkers poll After more than 10,000 votes from over 100 countries, the results of Prospect’s...
THINK ABOUT NATURE 26 Apr 2013 | 12:06 am
A Conversation with Lee Smolin [5.14.13] Feynman once told me, "Whatever you do—you're going to have to do crazy things to think about quantum gravity—but whatever you do, think about nature. If yo...
