Edge
198—December 6 , 2006
THE
THIRD CULTURE
The New York Times — OP-ED COLUMNIST — A Modest Proposal for a Truce on Religion By Nicholas D. Kristof
— When Atheists Have Their Say — Letters to the Editor by Sam Harris, Richard Dawkins
— Science Times ‚ A Free-for-All on Science and Religion By George Johnson
Beyond Belief— 15 hours of QuickTime Streaming Video
THE
REALITY CLUB
Daniel C. Dennett — Re "A Modest Proposal for a Truce on Religion," by Nicholas D. Kristof (The New York Times, column, Dec. 3)
An Edge Discussion of Beyond Belief
Scott Atran, Nicholas Humphrey, Sam Harris, Deniel C. Dennett, Carolyn Porco
IN THE NEWS
La Stampa: Intervista — Gabriele Becari — John Brockman— Costruiamo Il Futuro Con Idee Foll
Los Angeles Times — We're all racists, unconsciously By Michael Shermer
New York Press — Pattern Recognition
By Adario Strange
Wired Magazine — Head Games — David Pescovitz
10ZenMonkeys.com — Counterculture and the Tech Revolution — By RU Sirius
Workers World — A Marxist critique of the La Jolla conference — By Deirdre Griswold
Boston Herald — Where science need not tread — By Boston Herald editorial staff
(19,250 words)
Edge
197—November
20, 2006
THE
THIRD CULTURE
BEYOND REDUCTIONISM: Reinventing The Sacred By Stuart A. Kauffman
MY GD PROBLEM By Natalie Angier
LESS FAITH, MORE REASON By Steven Pinker Harvard Crimson
I'M AN ATHEIST...BUT By Richard Dawkins
THE
REALITY CLUB
Douglas Rushkoff, Yossi Vardi, Janron Lanier
on Hubert Burda's "How We Se Ourselves"
Jaron Lanier on Stuart Kauffman's "Beyond
Reductionism"
IN THE NEWS
The
Sunday Times
The Galileo effect: dangerous ideas waiting to happen
The Sunday Herald
Perils of Wisdom
Salon The sexiest man living!
Philadelphia Inquirer: Things We Like
Scientific American: By Stuart A. Kauffman
Arts
& Letters Daily: Essay & Opinion
Newsweek: Losing Our Religion By Jerry Adler
(14,650 words)
Edge
196 —November 10 , 2006
THE THIRD CULTURE
HOW PEOPLE SEE THEMSELVES By Hubert Burda
BEYOND BELIEF The Science Network, Salk Institute
MY EINSTEIN SUSPENDERS By George Smoot, Recipient, The 2006 Nobel Prize for Physics
THE FUTURE OF SCIENCE CONFERENCE, VENICE: Video Interviews with Daniel C. Dennett & Marc
D. Hauser
Now On Sale! WHAT IS YOUR DANGEROUS IDEA: TODAY'S LEADING THINKERS ON THE UNTHINKABLE
IN THE NEWS
Time | Cover God vs. Science By David Van Biema
Newsweek | Cover Why Religion and Politics Don't Mix By Sam
Harris
Spiegel Online: The New Atheists By Jörg Blech
(8800 words)
Edge
195 —November
3 , 2006
THE THIRD CULTURE
THANK GOODNESS! by Daniel C. Dennett
IN THE NEWS
The Independent: John Walsh: Tales of the City 'The whiff of Sixties
hippiedom and Nelson Mandela saintliness are, I'm sure, unconscious'
The New York Times: An Evolutionary Theory of Right and Wrong By Nicholas
Wade
The Observer: Atheists top book charts by deconstructing God By Jamie
Doward, religious affairs correspondent
(4,000 words)
Edge
194 — October
26, 2006
THE
THIRD CULTURE
FESTIVAL DELLA SCIENZA 2006
THE EXPLANDING THIRD CULTURE By John Brockman
WHY THERE ALMOST CERTAINLY IS NO GOD By Richard Dawkins
THE UNIVERSE ON A STRING By Brian Greene
IN THE NEWS
The Sun: War & Peace By Michael Shermer
Wall Street Journal: PAGE ONE — Entrepreneur Puts
Himself Up for Study In Genetic 'Tell-All'... Dr. Venter Wants
to Be First To Have His DNA Mapped; Risk of Blindness Revealed
The Colbert Report: Stephen Colbert Interviews Richard Dawkins
Bio-IT World: I’m a Celebrity, Get My Sequence! By
Kevin Davies
Globe & Mail: Entangled in the Matrix Net By Dorothy Woodend
The Times: What I want for Christmas is...an anti-religion rant By Ruth
Gledhill
(9,900 words)
Edge
193 — October
12, 2006
THE THIRD CULTURE
"Tuesday
Night Is Sacred": THE ANNUAL THIRD CULTURE
PUBLISHERS DINNER IN FRANKFURT
STEWART
BRAND MEETS THE CYBERNETIC COUNTERCULTURE: By
Fred Turner
DEVOTED
ACTOR VERSUS RATIONAL ACTOR MODELS FOR UNDERSTANDING WORLD
CONFLICT: Presented By Scott Atran To The National Security
Council At The White House
IN
THE NEWS
NPR:
Richard Dakwins on "Science Friday"
(16,500 words)
Edge
192 — September
18, 2006
THE THIRD CULTURE
THE PRINCIPLE OF MEDIOCRITY: Alexander
Vilenkin
IN THE NEWS
The New York Times "Philanthropy
Google’s Way: Not the Usual" By Katie Hafner
The Atlantic "Artificial Intelligentsia" By James Fallows
Chicago Tribune FALL ARTS PREVIEW "Culture shuffle play in a post-9/11
world"
BY Julia Keller
(4,600 words)
Edge
191 — September 6, 2006
THE THIRD CULTURE
HAUSER, SMOLIN, TRIVERS: "DARWIN Y
LA TERCERA CULTURA" IN BARCELONA
IN THE NEWS
Seed "Noam
Chomsky + Robert Trivers" A Video Event
Newsweek "The
New Naysayers " By Jerry Adler
BoingBoing "40 years of "intermedia kinetic environments" By
Xeni Jardin
New
Yorker "The Baby Lab: How Elizabeth Spelke peers into the infant mind"
Margaret Talbot
The
Guardian "Truth believers" By PD Smith
All
In The Mind "Breaking the Spell: Daniel Dennett on religion" Presented
By Natasha Mitchell
The
Irish Times "Paperbacks
(8,500 words)
Edge 190 — August 16, 2006
THE THIRD CULTURE
• MY EINSTEIN: Essays by Twenty-Four of the World’s Leading Thinkers on the Man, His Work, and His Legacy
Edited by John Brockman
• BRAIDS: Lee Smolin
—New Scientist (Cover Story): "You Are Made Of Space-Time"
By Davide Castelvecchi
—Editorial: Loop quantum gravity increases its pull
IN
THE NEWS
• Newsweek: "Poking a Stick Into The 'Hive Mind'" By Steven Levy
• Baltimore Sun: " In the combat over 'intelligent design,' science's defenders mount a counterattack" By Robert Lee Hotz
• Vail Daily: "Tackling evolution" By Alex Miller
• The Nipawin Journal: "Library Corner" By Nancy Budd
• Deseret Morning News (Salt Lake City) "Einstein, the man, dissected" By Dennis Lythgoe
• Santa Cruz Sentinel: "Essays on Einstein prove he's still a hot topic"
By Chris Watson
• Mining Gazette: "ID Discussed" By Kenneth Kraft
• Chicago Sun-Times: Paperback picks
(10,300 words)
Edge 189 — July
31, 2006
THE THIRD CULTURE
REASONABLE DOUBT By Rebecca Newberger Goldstein
IN THE NEWS
• Los Angeles Times Sunday Book Review: "Laws of Nature" By Robert Lee Hotz
• Nature: "Design Flaws" John Tyler Bonner reviews Intelligent Thought: science versus the Intelligent Design Movement edited by John Brockman
• The Guardian: "A Life in Science: The human factor" By Andrew Brown
• Nashville City Paper: New work evaluates, celebrates Albert Einstein By Ron Wynn
• Buffalo News: "Editor's Choice" By Jeff Simon
• The Daily Telegraph:"Pick of the Paperbacks" By Michael Bhasker
• Washington Post: "Relatively Fascinating: The Radicalism of Albert Einstein" By Dennis Drabelle
• Eurozine - L'Espill: Humanities and the third culture: By Francisco Fernández Buey
(3,450 words)
Edge 188 — July
10, 2006
THE THIRD CULTURE
THE ENERGY OF EMPTY SPACE THAT ISN'T ZERO: Lawrence
Krauss
IN
THE NEWS
The
Boston Globe: "Q&A With Jaron
Lanier" By Harvey Blume
The Post & Courier Charleston — Good Morning Low Country: "Dangerous
Ideas"
(5,060 words)
Edge 187 — June
29 2006
THE THIRD CULTURE
CONSTRUCTIVE BIOLOGY: George Church
THE REALITY CLUB
George Dyson on "Constructive Biology"
IN THE NEWS
Globe and Mail: "Science Fair " By Martin Levin
The Hindu - Business Line: "In Defence of Science" - D.
Murali
Die Welt - "Jimmy Wales und der Planet Wikipedia" - Ulrike Langer
(7,175 words)
Edge 186 — June
22 2006
THE THIRD CULTURE
• LETTER TO MEMBERS OF CONGRESS BY CONTRIBUTORS
TO INTELLIGENT THOUGHT
• Lawrence Krauss: HOW DO YOU FED-EX THE POPE?
THE REALITY CLUB
Stewart Kauffman and Scott Atran on Letter to Congress
IN THE NEWS
• Orlando Weekly: "Science vs. Stupid" By
Jason Ferguson
• Arts & Letters Daily
• The Sun: "Scientists Take on Intelligent Design" By
Paul R. Gross
• Slashdot: "A Look at the Editorial Changes on Wikipedia"
• Sueddeutsche Zeitung, FEUILLETON: "Digitaler Maoismus:
Der Trugschluss des Kollektivismus im Internet"
Von Jaron Lanier
(6,700 words)
Edge
185 — June 15, 2006
THE THIRD CULTURE
DARK MATTER By Martin Rees
THE REALITY CLUB
— Responses to "Digital Maoism: The Hazards of the New Online Collectivism" By
Jaron Lanier from Joseph ("Yossi") Vardi, Peter Galison
— Response to "Quantim Monkeys" By Seth Lloyd from Rudy Rucker
IN THE NEWS
— Sueddeutche Zeitung: Lack of
evidence (Aus Mangel an Beweisen):
Science debates faith and intelligent design By
Andrian Kreye
— The New York Times: What's
Online By Dan Mitchell
— Arts & Letters Dail: Articles of Note
— BoingBoing: Responses to Jaron Lanier's Crit of Online Collectivism By
David Pescovitz
— Open Democracy: The real bias in Wikipedia
(5,100 words)
Edge
184 — June
8,
2006
THE
THIRD CULTURE
QUANTUM
MONKEYS : A Talk with Seth Lloyd
THE
REALITY CLUB
—Steven Pinker, Martin Nowak, J. Craig Venter, Lee Smolin, Alan Guth respond
to Seth Lloyd's "Quantum Monkeys"
— Responses to "Digital Maoism: The Hazards of the
New Online Collectivism" By Jaron Lanier from Douglas Rushkoff, Quentin
Hardy, Yochai Benkler, Clay Shirky, Cory Doctorow, Kevin Kelly, Esther Dyson,
Larry Sanger, Fernanda Viegas & Martin Wattenberg, Jimmy Wales, George Dyson,
Dan Gillmor, Howard Rheingold
—Stephen Budiansky on "Godel In A Nutshell" by Verena
Huber-Dyson
IN THE NEWS
The Guardian: Jaron Lanier on the stupidity of the hive mind
by Jack Schofield
Newsweek: Ideas: Intelligent Defense by Jerry Adler
(21,200 words)
Edge
183 — May
30, 2006
THE
THIRD CULTURE
DIGITAL
MAOISM: THE HAZARDS OF THE NEW ONLINE COLLECTIVISM
An Edge original essay by Jaron
Lanier
(5,700 words)
Edge 182— May
22, 2006
THE THIRD CULTURE
THE SCIENCE OF HAPPINESS: A
Talk with Daniel Gilbert
GÖDEL IN A NUTSHELL: Verena
Huber-Dyson
THE NEW VIEW: The Opening Of The 24/7
New York City Apple Store Viewed From the Terrace at Edge Global Headquarters
at Grand Army Plaza
THE REALITY CLUB
Nathan Myhrvold, Steve Wozniak, Steve Jurvetson, Linda Stone, Steve
Lohr, John C. Dvorak, Jaron Lanier on "The New View"
IN THE NEWS
Newsweek: Ideas:
Intelligent Defense By Jerry Adler
Boing Boing: Eyeballing
the new 24/7 Apple store in NY By Xeni Jardin
Reader's Choice: The Genius's Genius
The Times: I'm so sorry, you fellows, but I always religiously
avoid your sort By Anjana Ahuja
(4,500 words)
Edge 181— May
8, 2006
THE
THIRD CULTURE
INTELLIGENT
THOUGHT: SCIENCE VERSUS THE INTELLIGENT DESIGN MOVEMENT Edited by John
Brockman
THE "GREAT" TRANSITION
By Neil H. Shubin
THE REALITY CLUB
Dan Sperber, Daniel C. Dennett, Colin Tudge,
Scott Atran, George Dyson on John
Horgan's THE TEMPLETON FOUNDATION: A SKEPTIC'S TAKE
(7,400 words)
Edge 180— May
1, 2006
THE
THIRD CULTURE
WHO'S AFRAID OF THE THIRD CULTURE?
by Gloria Origgi
THE REALITY CLUB
Daniel C. Dennett, George Johnson, Freeman Dyson, Richard
Dawkins, Marc D. Hauser, Dan Sperber, Jerry Coyne, Leonard Susskind, Lee Smolin,
Scott Atran on John
Horgan's THE TEMPLETON FOUNDATION: A SKEPTIC'S TAKE
IN THE NEWS
London: The Times; Cambridge: Harvard Crimson; Santiago: Radar; Bangleadesh: The
Financial Express; Stockholm: Attention; Amsterdam: De Groene
Amsterdammer, NRC Handelsblad
(6,500 words)
Edge 179— April
7 , 2006
EDGE Webstats, First Three Months, 2006
THE THIRD CULTURE
THE TEMPLETON FOUNDATION: A SKEPTIC'S TAKE
by John Horgan
SPECULATIONS ON THE FUTURE OF SCIENCE
By Kevin Kelly
THE EDGE QUBIT DINNER 2006
(5,650 words)
Edge 178— March
23, 2006
THE THIRD CULTURE
"THE
SELFISH GENE — THIRTY YEARS ON"
Daniel
C Dennett (Tufts), Sir John Krebs, FRS (Zoology,
Oxford), Matt Ridley, Ian McEwan, Richard Dawkins, FRS (Oxford); Chair: Melvyn
Bragg; Organiser: Helena Cronin
HARVARD
BOOKSTORE PRESENTS
A discussion about Science in the Age of Certainty
with John Brockman, Daniel C. Dennett, Daniel Gilbert, Marc D. Hauser, Elizabeth
Spelke and Seth Lloyd
IN THE NEWS
Boston
Globe — ON SCIENCE : "Deeply held (and unverifiable)
beliefs
(14,400 words)
Edge 177—March
13, 2006
THE THIRD CULTURE
NPR:
Talk of the Nation — What We Believe But Cannot Prove
TOTAL EARLY DETECTION; RAPID RESPONSE: Larry Brilliant's TED Prize
Wish
WHO REALLY WON THE SUPER BOWL?: Marco Iacoboni
WHAT WE BELIEVE BUT CANNOT PROVE : U.S. Publication
ON
THE ROAD
The Edge Annual Dinner, Monterey
eg | THE ENTERTAINMENT
GATHERING, LOS ANGELES
The Edge London Science Dinner
Edge in Barcelon
IN THE NEWS
The New York Times, The Times, The Chronicle of Higher Education
(4,600 words)
Edge
176— January
12, 2006
THE THIRD CULTURE
"Mirror Neurons and The Brain In A Vat" by
V.S. Ramachandran
THE WORLD QUESTION CENTER
The Edge Annual
Question — 2006
"WHAT IS YOUR DANGEROUS IDEA?"
IN THE NEWS
New
The Hindu, La Vanguardia, Financial Times, Radio3 Scienza, Washington Times,
Taipei Times, Berliner Morgenpost, The New York Times, The News & Observer,
The Sunday Express, New Scientist, Australian, La Stampa, Sueddeutsche Zeitung,
Vintrenta Auvi, The Hankyoreh, Slashdot
(6,500 words)
Edge 175— January
6, 2006
THE
WORLD QUESTION CENTER
The Edge Annual
Question — 2006
"WHAT IS YOUR DANGEROUS IDEA?"
IN THE NEWS
Arts & Letters
Daily; The Guardian, The Times, The Telegraph, New York
Times, Boing Boing, Yahoo News, Huffington Post, The
Times, Toronto Star, Rocky Mountain news, Boston Globe,
Observer, El Pais, La Vanguardia, el Pais, El Mundo.
La Vanguadia (Cover Story)
(75,000 words)
