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The Independent
"Commentary" (12/31/97)
By Oliver Morton

Home to often lively, sometimes obscure and almost always ambitious discussions about emerging insights into the sciences and the new digital world.

The New York Times
"In an On-Line Salon, Scientists Sit Back and Ponder" (12/30/97) (Registration Required)

To mark the first anniversary of [Edge], Brockman posed a question: "Simply reading the six million volumes in the Widener Library does not necessarily lead to a complex and subtle mind," he wrote, referring to the Harvard library. "How to avoid the anesthesiology of wisdom?" He answered the question with other questions by inviting participants to submit "the question you are asking yourself." They and others are now available at Edge.

The New York Times
"Nimble Deal-Maker For Stars Of Science" (10/14/97)
By James Gorman

A pastoral salon in which cosmologists, cognitive scientists, linguists and invertebrate paleontologists could discuss the evolution of the the universe and the problem of whether 1 plus 1 equals 2 is a tautology, a logical formula with relevance only to itself, or whether it has a necessary connection with the physical world.

Smithsonian
"Two Culture - Never the Twain Shall Meet - Scinetists wonder why today the word 'Intellectual" is used to describe only those in arts and letter" (10/97)
By John P. Wiley, Jr.

Brockman, a writer and literary agent himself, believes that the best scientific work ranks as high as any other endeavor in the great achievements of the human mind.

The Web Magazine
"Science: Log On with the Lab Coats: Real scientist talk shop after hours" (10/97)
By Phil Leggiere

At a site called Edge, something of the spirit of the Royal Society is being revived. There you can eavesdrop on a shifting cast of science luminaries, including evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins, MIT mathematician Marvin Minsky, Nobel-winning physicist Murray Gell-Mann, philosopher Daniel Dennett, and psychologist Steven Pinker. The style is decidedly "after hours," as these brainy folk improvise new ideas like jazz musicians testing their chops‹competing, collaborating, and sometimes pontificating within the site's freewheeling text-only forums.