October 18, 2007
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THE WORLD QUESTION CENTER
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"WHAT IS YOUR FORMULA? YOUR EQUATION? YOUR ALGORITHM?"
FORMULAE FOR THE 21ST CENTURY
An EDGE Special Question
Alun Anderson, Scott Atran, Mahzarin R. Banaji, Simon Baron-Cohen, Samuel Barondes, Gregory Benford, Susan Blackmore, Paul Bloom, Stewart Brand, John Brockman, Rodney A. Brooks, Sean Carroll, George Church, M.Csikszentmihalyi, Leda Cosmides, Paul Davies, Richard Dawkins, David Deutsch, Keith Devlin, Chris DiBona, Freeman Dyson, George Dyson, Drew Endy, Brian Eno, Dan Everett, J. Doyne Farmer, Richard Foreman, Howard Gardner, David Gelernter, Neil Gershenfeld, Steve Giddings, Daniel Gilbert, Marcelo Gleiser, Alison Gopnik, Joshua Greene, John Gottman, Jonathan Haidt, Judith Rich Harris, Marc D. Hauser, Donald D. Hoffman, John Horgan, Nicholas Humphrey, Marcy Kahan, Danny Kahneman, Dean Kamen, Kevin Kelly, Rem Koolhaas, Bart Kosko, Kai Krause, Ray Kurzweil, Lawrence M. Krauss, Janna Levin, Seth Lloyd, Benoit Mandelbrot, Geoffrey Miller, Marvin Minsky, Oliver Morton, David Myers, PZ Myers, Tor Nørretranders, Mark Pagel, Irene Pepperberg, Steven Pinker, Jordan Pollack, Ernst Pöppel, William Poundstone, Eduardo Punset, Martin Rees, Lisa Randall, Matt Ridley, Carlo Rovelli, Rudy Rucker, Doug Rushkoff, Dimitar D. Sasselov, Gino Segre, Michael Shermer, Neil Shubin, George Smoot, Dan Sperber, Maria Spiropulu, Linda Stone, Leonard Susskind, Nassim Taleb, Timothy Taylor, John Tooby, Max Tegmark, Craig Venter, Alexander Vilenkin, Shing-Tung Yau, Anton Zeilinger
AN EDGE-SERPENTINE GALLERY COLLABORATION
Introduction
I recently paid a visit to the Serpentine Gallery in Kensington Gardens, London to see Swiss curator Hans Ulrich Obrist, a long-time friend with whom I have a mutual connection: we both worked closely with the late James Lee Byars, the conceptual artist who, in 1971, implemented "The World Question Center" as a work of conceptual art.
The walls of Obrist's office were covered with single pages of size A4 paper on which artists, writers, scientists had responded to his question: "What Is Your Formula?" Among the pieces were formulas by quantum physicist David Deutsch, artist and musician Brian Eno, architect Rem Koolhaas, and fractal mathematician Benoit Mandelbrot.
Within minutes we had hatched an Edge-Serpentine collaboration for a "World Question Center" project, to debut on Edge during the annual Serpentine Gallery Experiment Marathon, the weekend of October 13-14. The plan was to further the reach of Obrist's question by asking for responses from the science-minded Edge community, thus complementing the rich array of formulas already assembled by the Serpentine from distinguished artists such as Marina Abramovic, Matthew Barney, Louise Bourgeois, Gilbert & George, and Rosemarie Trockel.
-JB
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FORMULAE FOR THE 21ST CENTURY - NEWS
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THE TELEGRAPH
October 13, 2007
Science and art meet in 'Experiment Marathon'
By Roger Highfield, Science Editor
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SUEDDEUTSCHE ZEITUNG
September 3, 2007
FEUILLITON - Front Page
SHORT ANSWERS TO BIG QUESTIONS
Andrian Kreye, Editor, The Feuilleton
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E-FLUX
October 13, 2007
SERPENTINE GALLERY
Steven Pinker and other leading scientists join artists at the Serpentine Gallery for a 24-hour Experiment Marathon featuring robots, three-way kissing booths and out-of-body experiences
13 - 14 October 2007
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BOOKS FROM EDGE
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NOW AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER:
WHAT ARE YOU OPTIMISTIC ABOUT?: Today's Leading Thinkers on Why Things Are
Good and Getting Better With an Introduction by Daniel C. Dennett, Edited
By John Brockman
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THIRD CULTURE NEWS
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NATURE
October 18, 2007
A life worth writing about
Jan Witkowski
Craig Venter's autobiography recounts the conflict and controversy that have contributed to his celebrity.
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THE TIMES
October 17, 2007
Life on all fours
Five quadrupedal siblings in Turkey were thought to be unique. But now more adults who walk on all fours have been found in Iraq
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THE TIMES
October 17, 2007
We're all made with quadrupedal walking ability
By Anjana Ahuja
Professor Nicholas Humphrey, an evolutionary psychologist at the London School of Economics who has been studying hand-walking among humans, is aware of five families around the world with children who walk on all fours. The first to come to scientific attention was the Ulas family, from southern Turkey, who were the subject of a television documentary last year. Of 16 siblings, five were hand-walkers.
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THE NEW YORK TIMES
October 16, 2007
OBSERVATORY
Two, Deux, Dos: Heavily Used Words Evolve More Slowly
By Henry Fountain
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THE TELEGRAPH
October 16, 2007
Craig Venter: Creating life in a lab using DNA Geneticist Craig Venter explains how, by artificially producing DNA, his team could design 'green' microbes that digest toxic waste
By Craig Venter
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THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
October 16, 2007
COMMENTARY
Academic Inquisitors
By Christina Hoff Sommers
...Simon Baron-Cohen, a professor at Cambridge University and one of the world's leading experts on autism, had an intriguing hypothesis. Autism is far more common in males than females.
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THE BOSTON GLOBE
October 15, 2007
Mathematician-Biologist Martin Nowak | Meeting the Minds
Cooperation counts for math professor
By Heather Wax, Globe Correspondent
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SALON
October 15, 2007
Proud atheists
Steven Pinker and Rebecca Goldstein, America's brainiest couple, confess that belonging to one of America's most reviled subcultures doesn't mean they believe scientists can explain everything.
By Steve Paulson
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THE SUNDAY TIMES
October 14, 2007
Steven Pinker knows what's going on inside your head
Steven Pinker's jeans and wild hair have made him academia's rock star but it is his incendiary ideas that get the crowds going. The evolutionary psychologist believes everything from road rage to adultery may be explained by our genes
By Bryan Appleyard
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DISCOVER
October 15, 2007
JARON'S WORLD
Are We Trapped in God's Video Game?
Probably not. And no, he's not looking at your underwear.
By Jaron Lanier
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SCIENCE
October 12, 2007
ON CAMPUS
Among them is Harvard psychologist Howard Gardner, who says, "I don't know anyone at Harvard who favors what happened at UC Davis. "The regents and faculty who opposed [Summers's] appearance look like ignorant fools."
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NATURE
October 11, 2007
An incomparable life
Jared Diamond
Exceptional intellect and creativity made Ernst Mayr the last century's greatest evolutionary biologist.
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NATURE
October 11, 2007
An invisible hand
W. Tecumseh Fitch
Quantitative relationships between how frequently a word is used and how rapidly it changes over time raise intriguing questions about the way individual behaviours determine large-scale linguistic and cultural change.
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NATURE
October 11, 2007
Frequency of word-use predicts rates of lexical evolution throughout Indo-European history
Mark Pagel, Quentin D. Atkinson & Andrew Meade
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NATURE
October 11, 2007
Quantifying the evolutionary dynamics of language
Erez Lieberman, Jean-Baptiste Michel, Joe Jackson, Tina Tang & Martin A. Nowak
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NATURE
October 11, 2007
Making the paper: Carolyn Porco
Spacecraft's images suggest one of Saturn's moons may host water.
The Cassini spacecraft took seven years to reach Saturn. But for Carolyn Porco, who leads the Cassini imaging team at the Space Science Institute (SSI) in Boulder, Colorado, the images it sent back were well worth the wait. Most exciting of all was the revelation that one of the planet's moons may have the essential ingredients to support life.
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FORBES
October 11, 2007
Cool Ideas
Radical Ideas
By Bruce Upbin
...Gadgetoff was the brainchild of two brothers, Daniel and Michael Dubno, and friend Greg Harper.
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TIME
October 11, 2007
VERBATIM
'We are going from reading our genetic code to the ability to write it.'
CRAIG VENTER, U.S. genetic researcher, on news that his team was preparing to announce the creation of the world's first synthetic chromosome, a stepping stone to creating artificial life
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THE NEW REPUBLIC
October 9, 2007
WHY WE CURSE
What the F***?
by Steven Pinker
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INTERNATIONAL HERALD TRIBUNE
October 9, 2007
A refugee from Western Europe
By Sam Harris and Salman Rushdie
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THE NEW YORK TIMES
October 8, 2007
THE MEDIA EQUATION
Nerd Chic Arrives on TV
By David Carr
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THE GUARDIAN
October 8, 2007
Cracking the code to life
When Craig Venter announced that he was going to unravel the human genome, it sparked one of the most bitterly contested races in the history of science. Here, in an extract from his new memoir, he describes the acrimonious sprint to the finish
By Craig Venter
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THE GUARDIAN
Saturday, October 6, 2007
FRONT PAGE
I am creating artificial life, declares US gene pioneer
Scientist has made synthetic chromosome * Breakthrough could combat warming Ed Pilkington New York
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THE GUARDIAN
Saturday, October 6, 2007
Gene genie
Any day now Craig Venter - geneticist, yachtsman and Vietnam veteran - will announce that he has achieved one of the greatest feats in science: the creation of artificial life. He talks to Ed Pilkington
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