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April 13, 2007

EDGE 207
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THE THIRD CULTURE
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THE HEROIC IMAGINATION
A Talk with Philip Zimbardo

"...little is known about the psychology of heroism.  There's a scant body of empirical literature, and most of it consists of interviews with people weeks, months, or decades after they have done a heroic deed.  Much of the first work on heroism came from interviewing Christians and others who helped Jews during the Holocaust.  Nobody asked the question "did anybody help?" until 20 years later. People helped in every country,where the lives of Jews were on the Nazi stake. However, the main response that researchers got during interviews with these people was, "it wasn't special."  Regardless of what they did, or where they did it, or how they did it, these heroes typically said, "I am not a hero. I did what had to be done. I can't imagine how anybody in that situation who wouldn't do it."  Some of these heroes tended to be more religious than not, and tended to have parents who had been active in various kinds of causes. However, many more  religious people with socially-politically active parents did nothing to help."
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EVOLUTION CLOSES IN BERKELEY
Nicholas Humphrey

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THE REALITY CLUB
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Zenon Pylyshyn on Stephen M. Kosslyn's "What Shape Are A German Shepard's Ears"

[PYLYSHYN]...Apart from speculating that my views derive from the fact that I do not have mental images (I have vivid imagery and, being an academic who lives his life in his head, I use them all the time) and even that I fail to get the jokes in images (god knows where these irrelevant ideas come from but they deserve to be in gossip magazines rather than in scholarly talks)! Kosslyn repeats (again and again) the old saw that I think that images are epiphenomenal and play no role in thought. This gives away an assumption that Kosslyn shares with many people who argue for the picture-theory of mental imagery: the assumption that the subjective impression we have in mental imagery in itself constitutes a theory. ..

Stephen Kosslyn Replies

[KOSSLYN]...Suffice it to say that 35+ years of hard work, which have led to increasingly detailed computer simulation models and scores of papers reporting empirical results, do not rely on "the assumption that the subjective impression we have in mental imagery in itself constitutes a theory" nor hinge on a "vague allusion to a subjective experience".

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THIRD CULTURE NEWS
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THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
The New Crusaders
As Religious Strife Grows, Europe's Atheists Seize Pulpit
By Andrew Higgins
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THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
LEARN ABOUT EUROPE'S FAMOUS SKEPTICS
Socrates | Bruno | Hobbes | Voltaire | Nietzsche | Marx | Dawkins
Slide Show: Outside the Box

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SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN
Pope says science too narrow to explain creation
By Tom Heneghan

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http://www.edge.org/documents/archive/edge207.html#sciam

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SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN
Pope says science too narrow to explain creation
By Tom Heneghan

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THE TIMES
Wikipedia a force for good? Nonsense, says a co-founder
Alexandra Frean

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NEW YORKER
The Interpreter
John Colapinto

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NEW YORKER
A Tribe Apart
Slide Show

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NPR
Tribe Helps Linguist Argue with Prevailing Theory

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NEW YORK TIMES
On the Launching Pad: A $20 Million Childhood Dream
By John Schwartz

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WALL STREET JOURNAL
Nobel-winning scientist Eric Kandel chooses unforgettable works on memory
By Eric Kandel

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http://www.edge.org/documents/archive/edge207.html#kandel
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TOWNSVILLE BULLETIN
Dangerous ideas
Malcolm Tatterall

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CHARLIE ROSE
Reading Judas: Elaine Pagels & Karen King
Charlie Rose

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THE INDEPENDENT
Ian McEwan: I hang on to hope in a tide of fear
By Boyd Tonkin

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http://www.edge.org/documents/archive/edge207.html#independent
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C|NET NEWS.COM
Simonyi's ride on a Russian rocket
(Photo Gallery)

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TIME
Einstein & Faith
By Walter Isaacson

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THE NEW YORK TIMES
Finding Hope in Knowing the Universal Capacity for Evil
By Claudia Dreyfus

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http://www.edge.org/documents/archive/edge207.html#nyt2
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THE SUNDAY TIMES
How we make monsters
Michael Bywater

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http://www.edge.org/documents/archive/edge207.html#st1
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THE NEW YORK TIMES
Seeking a Car That Gets 100 Miles a Gallon
By Nick Bunkley

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http://www.edge.org/documents/archive/edge207.html#nyt100
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NEWSWEEK
The God Debate
Sam Harris & Rick Warren

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BRITISH BOOK AWARDS
Richard Dawkins is Author of the Year!
http://www.edge.org/documents/archive/edge207.html#bba
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BLOGGINGHEADS.TV
John Horgan & George Johnson

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CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
A new fundamentalism?
By Jay Lindsay

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http://www.edge.org/documents/archive/edge207.html#cst
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SCIENCE
String Theory, With No Holds Barred
By John Simpson

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http://www.edge.org/documents/archive/edge207.html#science
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SAN FRANCSCO CHRONICLE
A noble Nobel
Editorial

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http://www.edge.org/documents/archive/edge207.html#sfc
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THE DAILY SHOW
Psychologist Philip Zimbardo compares the Stanford Prison Experiment ro Abu Ghraib
John Stewart

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THE CHRONICLE REVIEW
Revisiting the Stanford Prison Experiment: a Lesson in the Power of Situation
By Philip G. Zimbardo

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http://www.edge.org/documents/archive/edge207.html#cr
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PROSPECT
The Mystery of Consciousness
Paul Broks

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THE AGENDA
Jerry Coyne | Science and Religion
Steve Palkin

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http://www.edge.org/documents/archive/edge207.html#agenda
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FRESH AIR
Richard Dawkins Explains 'The God Delusion'
Terry Gross

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http://www.edge.org/documents/archive/edge207.html#freshair
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BOINGBOING
Katinka Matson's latest flower scan art
David Pescovitz

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