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THE THIRD CULTURE
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We met, he kissed me, and then it all fell apart. We just couldn't agree about Jerry Fodor and Bill Bryson. A poignant pic." -- Armand Marie Leroi
EDGE LONDON DINNER -- 2009 PHOTO ALBUM
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The central idea we were working on was this idea of de-localized information -- information for which I didn't care what computer it was stored on. It didn't depend on any particular computer. I didn't know the identities of other computers in the ensemble that I was working on. I just knew myself and the cybersphere, or sometimes we called it the tuplesphere, or just a bunch of information floating around. We used the analogy -- we talked about helium balloons. We used a million ways to try and explain this idea.
LORD OF THE CLOUD
John Markoff and Clay Shirky Talk to David Gelernter
An Edge Roundtable
.Bill Gates's name is synonymous with Microsoft Basic. A mention of Bill Joy in the press is usally accompanied by acknowledgement of his early development work on UNIX. Ted Nelson is always associated with hypertext. Jaron Lanier is often identified and credited with his pioneering work on virtual reality. But rarely are "cloud computing" and "lifestreams" (or "lifestreaming") presented in connection with, and with proper credit to, the visionary behind them.
EDGE asked John Markoff, who covers technology for The New York Times, and first brought Gelernter's ideas to a wide reading public with his 1991 New York Times profile, and social software seer Clay Shirky. a professor at NYU's graduate Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP), to talk to Gelernter about his ideas. The roundtable took place in New York City on March 25, 2009.
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SERPENTINE-EDGE EXPERIMENT MARATHON DO WOMEN HAVE BETTER EMPATHY THAN MEN?
Simon Baron-Cohen
In this Edge Video, psychologist Simon Baron-Cohen looks at one test he's developed to see if there are differences between males and females in the mind.
"It turns out that when you test newborn babies--this experiment was done at the age of 24 hours old, where we had 100 babies who were tested looking at two kinds of objects--a human face and a mechanical mobile. And they were filmed for how long they looked at each of these two objects. What you can see here is that on the first day of life, we had more boys than girls looking for longer at the mechanical mobile and more girls than boys looking at the face. So you can see that these differences when they emerge, first of all they seem to emerge very early--at birth--suggesting that there may be a biological component to a sex difference in, in this case, interest in faces; and secondly, they don't apply to all males or all females, these differences emerge as statistical trends when you compare groups."
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ARTICLES OF NOTE
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NEWSWEEK
Truth and Consequences
By Daniel Goleman
WHY EVOLUTION IS TRUE
Truckling to the Faithful: A Spoonful of Jesus Helps Darwin Go Down
By Jerry Coyne
NEW YORK TIMES
A Conversation With Richard Wrangham
By Claudia Dreifus
WALL STREET JOURNAL
How the E-Book Will Change the Way We Read and Write
By Steven Johnson
NEW REPUBLIC
Nudge-ocracy
by Franklin Foer and Noam Scheiber
THE NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE
The Green Mind
Why Isn't the Brain Green?
By JON GERTNER
THE NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE
Domains | Stewart Brand
On the Waterfront
By Edward Lewine
THE NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE
Natural Happiness
By Paul Bloom
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
The Original Joy of Cooking:
PW Talks with Author Richard Wrangham
by Will Boisvert
HUFFINGTON POST
The Moral Measure of a Civilization Is in Its Treatment of Enemies
By Scott Atran
THE AUSTRALIAN
No, we don't need five planets
By Bjorn Lomborg
THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
Deal Journal
Financial Meltdown: The Ultimate Human Error
THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
Firm Lets Others Choose Startups
By Jessica E. Vascellaro
NEWSWEEK
It Doesn't Have To Hurt
By Richard Thaler
PHYSICS WORLD
Cover Story
In search of the black swan
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