[1,500 words]
This online EDGE edition is available at:
http://www.edge.org/documents/archive/edge227.html
----------------------------------------------------
THE THIRD CULTURE
----------------------------------------------------
EDGE/TED TALKS - Monterey, CA
Three Talks from TED 2007 presented in high quality video by the vibrant "TED Talks" website:
FLY ME TO THE MOONS OF SATURN
Carolyn Porco
Planetary scientist Carolyn Porco says, "I'm going to take you on a journey." And does she ever. Showing breathtaking images from the Cassini voyage to Saturn, she focuses on Saturn's intriguing largest moon, Titan,with deserts, mudflats and puzzling lakes, and on frozen Enceladus, which seems to shoot jets of ice.
A JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF YOUR MIND
Vilayanur Ramachandran
In a wide-ranging talk, Vilayanur Ramachandran explores how brain damage can reveal the connection between the internal structures of the brain and the corresponding functions of the mind. He talks about phantom limb pain, synesthesia (when people hear color or smell sounds), and the Capgras delusion, when brain-damaged people believe their closest friends and family have been replaced with imposters.
A BRIEF HISTORY OF VIOLENCE
Steven Pinker
In this TED Talk, Steven Pinker takes on violence. We live in violent times, an era of heightened warfare, genocide and senseless crime. Or so we've come to believe. Pinker charts a history of violence from Biblical times through the present, and says modern society has a little less to feel guilty about.
---------------------------------------------------
THE EDGE DINNER 2007
Monterey, California (during the TED Conference) - March 7, 2007
"The dinner party was a microcosm of a newly dominant sector of American business." - Wired
PHOTO ALBUM
"This goes beyond all known schmoozing. This is like some kind of virtual-intellectual conspiracy-in-restraint-of-trade." - Bruce Sterling
---------------------------------------------------
SERPENTINE GALLERY EXPERIMENT MARATHON
Saturday 13 October 12 noon - Sunday 14 October 3 pm, London
On Sunday morning, October 14, Edge participated in a morning of "table-top experiments" as part of the Serpentine Gallery Experiment Marathon in London. This live event was featured along with the Edge/Serpentine collaboration: "What Is Your Formula? Your Equation? Your Algorithm? Formulae For the 21st Century."
Photos and commentary from the Serpentine Gallery blog of the event.
Seirian Sumner: A cooperative foraging experiment - lessons from ants
Timothy Taylor: The Tradescant's Ark Experiment
Simon Baron-Cohen: Do women have better empathy than men?
Armand Leroi: The Song of Songs
Steve Jones: Some Like it Hot
Neil Turok: What Banged?
Lewis Wolpert: How Our Limbs are Patterned Like the French Flag
John Baldessari
Steven Pinker in conversation with Marcy Kahan
---------------------------------------------------
IN THE NEWS
---------------------------------------------------
DISSIDENT VOICE
October 24, 2007
Neuroscience and Moral Politics: Chomsky's Intellectual Progeny
Are humans "wired for empathy"? How does this affect what Chomsky calls the "manufacturing of consent"?
By Gary Olson
---------------------------------------------------
BOOKS FROM EDGE
---------------------------------------------------
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
---------------------------------------------------
This online EDGE edition is available at:
http://www.edge.org/documents/archive/edge227.html
----------------------------------------------------
----------------------------------------------------
EDGE
John Brockman, Editor and Publisher
Russell Weinberger, Associate Publisher
Karla Taylor, Editorial Assistant
Copyright (c) 2007 by EDGE Foundation, Inc.
All Rights Reserved.
Published by EDGE Foundation, Inc.,
5 East 59th Street, New York, NY 10022
EDGE Foundation, Inc. is a nonprofit private operating foundation under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code.
----------------------------------------------------
----------------------------------------------------
---
You are currently subscribed to edge_editions as: wheresrhys@gmail.com
To unsubscribe send a blank email to leave-2802532-13069806A@sand.lyris.net
Or, you can use the web form at the following URL:
No comments:
Post a Comment