2000 : WHAT IS TODAY'S MOST IMPORTANT UNREPORTED STORY?

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2000 : WHAT IS TODAY'S MOST IMPORTANT UNREPORTED STORY?

Abrupt Climate Change William H. Calvin Theoretical Neurobiologist; Affiliate Professor Emeritus,...	The Reasons For Right-Wing Extremism In Europe And The U.S. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Psychologist; Director, Quality of Life Research Center,...
What Scientific Research Is Really Like Pattie Maes Professor, MIT MediaLab; Program Head, MIT's Program...	The Size Of The Digital Universe George Dyson Science Historian; Author, Turing's Cathedral; Project...
America's Descent Into Computer-Aided Unconsciousness And Consumer Fascism Douglas Rushkoff Media Analyst; Documentary Writer; Author, Throwing Rocks...	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 Trilogy: The Math Book, The Physics Book, The...
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 Transformation Of The American Musical Ear John McWhorter Professor of Linguistics and Western Civilization, Columbia...
The Remaking Of Personality As Seen In Language. James J. O'Donnell Classics Scholar, University Librarian, ASU; Author, The...	The Quiet Resurgence of Psychedelic Compounds as Instruments of Both Spiritual and Scientific Exploration John Horgan Journalist; Director, Stevens Institute of Technology
People are Morphing into Machines. Rodney A. Brooks Roboticist; Panasonic Professor of Robotics (emeritus) ,...	(1) The closing of the High Flux Beam Reactor at Brookhaven National Lab; (2) Eppawala Philip W. Anderson Nobel Laureate; Physicist
Science and technology Editor Philip Elmer DeWitt Writer, Editor, Fortune	The Potentially Glorious, or Dangerous, Massive Cultural Impact of Mitochondrial DNA Studies. Sally M. Gall librettist, poet, critic, and scholar
How does a brain give rise to a mind? Stephen Grossberg Principal founders of the fields of computational...	The World Isn't Going to Hell John Gilmore Activist
(1) African Civil Wars; (2) Evolutionary Theory Is Not Intuitive; Creationism Is Howard Gardner Hobbs Professor of Cognition and Education, Harvard...	Quality Pigs Brian Goodwin Professor of Biology at Schumacher College
The World Is Losing Potable Water At A Rate That Is Unprecedented. Eric J. Hall CFO of rightscenter.com, Inc	The Politicians Who Are Running On Education Platforms Don't Actually Care About Education Roger Schank John Evans Professor Emeritus of Computer Science,...
How The Human Brain Models The World Arnold Trehub Psychologist, University of Massachusetts, Amherst; Author...	The Concept Of Ecology Stephen R. Kellert Social Ecologist, Yale
The Internationalization of the Third Culture Lee Smolin Physicist, Perimeter Institute; Author, Time Reborn	The Planet Itself Is Becoming Self Aware Ivan Amato Freelance print and radio Writer; Editor of the Pathways of...
How Will The Internet Influence Democracy? Howard Rheingold Communications Expert; Author, Smart Mobs	The True Nature of Much of Human Illness Eludes Mankind. Mehmet C. Oz Irving Assistant Professor, Department of Surgery, Columbia...
That the Human Mind is Less and Less In the Head Andy Clark Philosopher and Cognitive Scientist, University of...	The Population Fizzle Kevin Kelly Senior Maverick, Wired; Author, The Inevitable
The End of the Brain Eduardo Punset Scientist; Spanish Television Presenter; Author, The...	The End of Gene Control Anne Fausto-Sterling Professor of Biology and Women's Studies at Brown...
(1) The Health Crisis in Africa and (2) The Poor Level of Educational Distribution. Marc D. Hauser Psychologist and Biologist, Harvard University: Author,...	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...
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, Ecological Intelligence, Focus: The...
The Disconnect Between Wealth and Well-Being: It's Not the Economy, Stupid David G. Myers Professor of Psychology, Hope College; Co-author,...	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	Educational Inequities Joseph LeDoux Neuroscientist, New York University; Author, Anxious
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...
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 most important unreported story Bart Kosko Information Scientist and Professor of Electrical...
The Lack of Services to Heal Abused Children Jeff Jacobs Founder of Civitas Initiative	The Imminent Paradigm Shift In Understanding The Conscious Mind Stuart Hameroff Professor, Anesthesiology and Psychology Associate Director...
The Globalization of Illness Dean Ornish Founder and President of the non-profit Preventive Medicine...	There Are No Things. Piet Hut professor of astrophysics at the Institute for Advanced...
a) The Extraordinary Proliferation of Jobs and Careers; b) James P. Carse's Jewel of a Book, Finite and Infinite Games Julian Barbour Theoretical physicist; Author, The End of Time	The Reduction Since 1993 In American Crime Is An Illusion David Lykken Behavioral Geneticist and Emeritus Professor, University of...
The Death of the Paragraph Keith Devlin Mathematician; Executive Director, H-STAR Institute,...	The Enduring Vitality of the More Moderate Kinds of Religions Freeman Dyson Physicist
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 Research Professor/Professor Emeritus, University of...
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 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 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 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.	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
The sexual abuse of children by women Timothy Taylor Professor of the Prehistory of Humanity, University of...	Chemistry for non-chemists; Entrepreneurism Philip Campbell Editor-in-Chief, Nature
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, Business Strategist; Senior Vice President for...	Henry Warwick My friend, John Brockman, asked me, What is the most important unreported story of the year? Henry Warwick artist, composer, and scientist
Indigenous Science Margaret Wertheim science writer and commentator	Shifting Empires and Power Thomas A. Bass English Professor, University at Albany; Author, The Spy...
The Death of Nations Rafael Núñez Professor, Department of Cognitive Science, University of...	Emergence of an Integrated Human-Earth Organism Richard Potts Director of The Human Origins Program
Response to Margaret Wertheim Paul Davies Theoretical physicist; cosmologist; astro-biologist; co-...	The End of the Nation-State Robert Aunger Biological Anthropologist; Author, Gaining Control
Response to Paul Davies Margaret Wertheim science writer and commentator	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
Is the Market on Prozac? Randolph Nesse Professor of Life Sciences, Director, Center for Evolution...	New York Times Sells Out! David Bunnell Founder, PC Magazine, PC World, Macworld, Macworld Expo,...
I. A new kind of object: From Rorschach to Relationship Sherry Turkle Abby Rockefeller Mauzé Professor of the Social Studies of...	The last word on Y2K: The Y1K Problem W. Brian Arthur External Professor, Santa Fe Institute; Visiting Researcher...
How Kids Replaced the Generals Joseph "Yossi" Vardi chairman of International Technologies