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The Size Of The Digital Universe George Dyson Science Historian ; Author, Turing’s Cathedral; Darwin...	Science and technology Editor Philip Elmer DeWitt Writer, Editor, Fortune
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How The Human Brain Models The World Arnold Trehub Psychologist, University of Massachusetts, Amherst; Author...	The World Is Losing Potable Water At A Rate That Is Unprecedented. Eric J. Hall CFO of rightscenter.com, Inc
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The Concept Of Ecology Stephen R. Kellert Social Ecologist, Yale	How Will The Internet Influence Democracy? Howard Rheingold Communications Expert; Author, Smart Mobs
The End Of Money Thomas Petzinger editor, reporter	Parenting Styles Have Changed But Children Have Not Judith Rich Harris Independent Investigator and Theoretician; Author, The...
The Immortalization of Humanity Clifford Pickover Author, The Math Book, The Physics Book, and The Medical...	Women Are Still Considered Inferior To Men Sylvia Paull founder of Gracenet
The Peace Dividend Stewart Brand Founder, the Whole Earth Catalog; Co-founder, The Well; Co-...	That There Are So Many Important Unreported Stories. Hans Weise filmmaker, writer, and Web developer
The Remaking Of Personality As Seen In Language. James J. O'Donnell Classics Scholar, University Librarian, ASU; Author, Pagans	The Transformation Of The American Musical Ear John McWhorter Professor of Linguistics and Western Civilization, Columbia...
The Quiet Resurgence of Psychedelic Compounds as Instruments of Both Spiritual and Scientific Exploration John Horgan Director, Center for Science Writings, Stevens Institute of...	(1) The closing of the High Flux Beam Reactor at Brookhaven National Lab; (2) Eppawala Philip W. Anderson Nobel Laureate; Physicist
People are Morphing into Machines. Rodney A. Brooks Panasonic Professor of Robotics (emeritus); Former Director...	The Roads Not Taken Hans Ulrich Obrist Curator, Serpentine Gallery, London; Editor: A Brief...
Exercise Can Make you Smarter Terrence J. Sejnowski Computational Neuroscientist; Francis Crick Professor, the...	Educational Inequities Joseph LeDoux Professor of Neural Science, Psychology, Psychiatry, and...
The most important unreported story Bart Kosko Information Scientist and Professor of Electrical...	Two Stories, One Encouraging, the Other Worrying Lance Knobel Independent Writer and Strategist
The Classification Theorem for Finite Simple Groups Verena Huber-Dyson 1923-2016; Emeritus Professor, Formerly, Philosophy...	The Erosion of Traditional Ellis Rubinstein Chief Executive Officer of the New York Academy of Sciences.
The Globalization of Illness Dean Ornish Founder and President of the non-profit Preventive Medicine...	The Lack of Services to Heal Abused Children Jeff Jacobs Founder of Civitas Initiative
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The Death of the Paragraph Keith Devlin Mathematician; Executive Director, H-STAR Institute,...	There Are No Things. Piet Hut professor of astrophysics at the Institute for Advanced...
The Reduction Since 1993 In American Crime Is An Illusion David Lykken Behavioral Geneticist and Emeritus Professor, University of...	That the Human Mind is Less and Less In the Head Andy Clark Professor of Cognitive Philosophy, Department of Philosophy...
The Enduring Vitality of the More Moderate Kinds of Religions Freeman Dyson Physicist, Institute of Advanced Study; Author, Disturbing...	The True Nature of Much of Human Illness Eludes Mankind. Mehmet C. Oz Irving Assistant Professor, Department of Surgery, Columbia...
The End of Gene Control Anne Fausto-Sterling Professor of Biology and Women's Studies at Brown...	The Population Fizzle Kevin Kelly Senior Maverick, Wired; Author, What Technology Wants and...
The End of the Brain Eduardo Punset Scientist; Spanish Television Presenter; Author, The...	A Lost Civilization Eberhard Zangger Managing director of science communications
Hidden Consequences of Our Daily Choices as Consumers of Products and Services Daniel Goleman Psychologist; Author (with Richard Davidson), Altered Traits	The Way Stories About Complex Scientific Controversies Are Often Unintentionally Mis-reported by the Mainstream Media. Stephen Schneider climatologist, is a professor in the Department of...
Decoding the Human Genome is a Long Term Project Peter Cochrane Founding Partner, Formicio; Chairman & CEO, Cochrane...	How Great the Kids Are Today. Philip Brockman Physicist
The Disconnect Between Wealth and Well-Being: It's Not the Economy, Stupid David G. Myers Professor of Psychology, Hope College; Co-author,...	The Farce of the Slacker Generation (Or What the Hell Happened to Generation X)? Jason Calacanis Internet Entrepreneur; Angel Investor
Weird Ape Fouls Planet Delta Willis Paleontologist; Author, Hominid Gang	Maslow's America Daniel Pink Contributing Editor, Wired; Author, To Sell is Human
The Loss of our Species' Biography Steven Pinker Johnstone Family Professor, Department of Psychology;...	The Peculiar Feedback Loops - Both Negative and Positive - That Drive Media Reporting of Technological and Science Issues Charles Arthur Freelance Technology Journalist
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Discrimination in the Mating Market David M. Buss Professor of Psychology, University of Texas, Austin;...	The End of the Dream of a More Gentle World Carlo Rovelli Theoretical Physicist; Aix-Marseille University, in the...
The Non-US Uniform Mobile Standard David Braunschvig Adjunct Senior Fellow for Business and Foreign Policy,...	The Gradual The Growth of a Prosperous Middle Class in China and in India Denis Dutton Philosopher; Founder and Editor, Arts & Letters Daily;...
The Dramatic Fall in the Rate of Growth in Global Population Peter Schwartz Futurist; Senior Vice President for Global Government...	Henry Warwick My friend, John Brockman, asked me, What is the most important unreported story of the year? Henry Warwick artist, composer, and scientist
Social Policy Implications of the New Happiness Research Geoffrey Miller Evolutionary psychologist, NYU Stern Business School and...	Linda Tripp's Makeover Thomas de Zengotita Anthropologist
Survival Depends on the Race Between Education and Catastrophe Leon M. Lederman Director emeritus of Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory	The Walkie-Talkie Theory: Bipedalism Was Necessary For Human Speech Evolution Robert Provine Professor Emeritus, University of Maryland, Baltimore...
Good News Nancy Etcoff Psychologist and faculty member of the Harvard Medical...	The Rise of Organic Farming in Europe Rupert Sheldrake biologist and author
Appropriation of the Internet as an Effective and Powerful Tool of Large Scale Global Social Protest Phil Leggiere free-lance journalist	The Coming Transformation in Human Life and Society in the Post-Genomic World Steven R. Quartz Neuroscientist; Professor of Philosophy, Caltech; Co-author...
The Consequences of Choices Made About The Internet Today Marney Morris Professor of Interaction Design, Engineering Department,...	Maybe Media Is the Real Opiate of the People Denise Caruso Digital Commerce/Technology Columnist, the New York Times
The End of Clausewitzian War Jaron Lanier Computer Scientist; Musician; Author, Who Owns The Future?	The Swiftness of the Societal Changes That Occurred Two-thirds of the Way Through the Century Kenneth W. Ford Retired Director of the American Institute of Physics
The Fact That There Are No Longer ANY Unreported Stories Raphael Kasper physicist, is Associate Vice Provost for Research at...	A Dollar a Week Will End World Hunger Tor Nørretranders Writer; Speaker; Thinker, Copenhagen, Denmark
The Information Revolution Requires A Matching Education Revolution Robert Hormats Vice-Chairman of Goldman Sachs International.	Response to Paul Davies Margaret Wertheim science writer and commentator
The End of the Nation-State Robert Aunger Biological Anthropologist; Author, Gaining Control	Is the Market on Prozac? Randolph Nesse Professor of Life Sciences, Director, Center for Evolution...
Infection Is Much Bigger Than We Thought, Bigger Than We Think, And Perhaps Bigger Than We Can Think Paul W. Ewald Professor of Biology, Amherst College; Author, Plague Time	I. A new kind of object: From Rorschach to Relationship Sherry Turkle Abby Rockefeller Mauzé Professor of the Social Studies of...
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The last word on Y2K: The Y1K Problem W. Brian Arthur External Professor, Santa Fe Institute; Visiting Researcher...	Indigenous Science Margaret Wertheim science writer and commentator
Shifting Empires and Power Thomas A. Bass Professor of English and Journalism, State University of...	The Death of Nations Rafael Núñez Professor, Department of Cognitive Science, University of...
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