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36 Arguments

vronsky — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 12:33:37 -0800

Faith has nothing on this guy.

Cool Papa Bell — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 12:02:18 -0800

Now have you found what you're looking for?

Joe Beese — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 11:04:34 -0800

Only 325 days until Broadway's Hilton Theater hosts the first preview of Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, a $40 million musical directed by Juliet Taymor with music and lyrics by Bono and The Edge of U2. Investors hope it will fare better than another big-budget pulp adaptation.

Not Obama ?!?!

Gyan — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 22:10:45 -0800

What Will Change Everything? - the 2009 Edge Annual Question [the editions of 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002]

Social networks are like the eye

sveskemus — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 15:43:45 -0800

Social networks are like the eye: A talk with Nicholas A. Christakis. Dr. Christakis' current work is principally concerned with health and social networks. This work takes seriously the contention that because people are inter-connected, their health is inter-connected. Christakis, like a group of other scholars researching social science questions, uses Facebook to gather data about how people form social relationships. From the Edge article:

We are thus at a moment where a leap forward in the methodology for the study of social networks has been made, firstly by building on past work. But secondly, we are at a moment where — because of modern telecommunications technologies and other innovations — people are leaving digital traces of where they are, who they are interacting with, and what they are saying or even thinking. All of these types of data can be captured by the deployment of what I call "massive passive" technologies and used to engage social science questions in a way that our predecessors could only dream of. We have vast amounts of data that can be reapplied to investigate fundamental questions about social organization and about morality and other concerns that have perplexed us forever.

"When the world's great scientific thinkers change their minds"

stbalbach — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 06:55:33 -0800

"When the world's great scientific thinkers change their minds". Some Big Name thinkers (Dyson, Pinker, Venter, ...) change their minds on some Big Ideas (race, evolution, global warming,..) and explain why in about a paragraph each. Via Edge.

Should I post this?

Gyan — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 23:56:18 -0800

What have you changed your mind about? Why? - the latest installment of The Edge Annual Question [FPPs for 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002]

A DNA-driven world

sushiwiththejury — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 16:53:45 -0800

Transcript and video of the 32nd Richard Dimbleby lecture by Craig Venter.

Reflection's Edge

Pants! — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 11:34:13 -0800

Reflection's Edge, a monthly fiction zine (back issues), has many resources for writers, including slang/dialect (don't miss the links to Texas Talk, the Internet Guide to Jazz Age Slang, or the 1736 Canting Dictionary), writing advice and interviews, and advice on how to sell your story.

Cheers, Big Ears!

chuckdarwin — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 04:25:15 -0800

The first known film of the long-eared jerboa, an endangered Mongolian rodent with legs like a kangaroo, was released today by the owners of London Zoo. Previously

The 3-1-3 is 1-2-3

fusinski — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 12:49:57 -0800

Latest news out of the auto industry: Buick ties Lexus as top auto brand in vehicle dependability. Cadillac is #2. Mercury is #3. If you haven't seen the new Buicks, you should take a look at what they've been doing lately (see: Enclave, Lucerne). Also, the new (sort of) Taurus gets rave reviews. The Ford Edge, also new for 2007, has captured 16% of the crossover market, and owners seem to love it. Finally, for the greenies, GM is ready to test the electric Chevy Volt--says it is on schedule for production in 2010. Is it time to consider buying American again? And not just for the sake of it?

a natural edge

nickyskye — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 07:30:12 -0800

..."imagine a painter who could, like Vermeer, capture the quality of light that a camera can, but with the color of paints...scanned with an ordinary office scanner"....Katinka Matson is cofounder of the brilliant and very readable ezine, Edge. Her digital art is featured there. Thumbnails of her 40 flowers. 12 flowers. Five flowers. Red anemone.

In Defense of Uncommon Sense

homunculus — Sun, 28 Aug 2005 09:59:24 -0800

In Defense of Uncommon Sense. The Edge Reality Club responds to an op-ed by John Horgan (previously discussed here.) (Via)

A Dog for All Seasons

nthdegx — Sat, 20 Aug 2005 03:45:52 -0800

A Dog for All Seasons. A wonderful Flash game. From Orisinal. Via Edge.

Gimme the cyber razor cut

nthdegx — Thu, 09 Jun 2005 15:14:03 -0800

An archive of 2412 TV adverts for videogames from around the world. Via Edge magazine.

Edge.org Annual Questionathon

Fupped Duck — Mon, 06 Jan 2003 07:17:36 -0800

edge.org publishes its annual question posed to its members. edge.org is an online sort of a digital roundtable for really smart & famous types; a flameless metafilter for the intellectually arrived.
Once each year, a global question is posed to its noteworthy members. This year's ?? is: Suppose GWB has appointed you National Science Advisor and then asks you "What are the pressing scientific issues for the nation and the world, and what is your advice on how I can begin to deal with them?" Their's a boatload of interesting, insightful, sometimes humorous pieces written by a bunch of people. F'rinstance: Kurzweil on cloned tissue spare parts, Clifford Pickover on quantum dots, but among the most insightful is Alan Alda (who knew?!)

theplayethic — Sat, 02 Mar 2002 05:58:35 -0800

Are these what the real rulers of the information age look like? Mindblowing guest list for Edge.org's recent Annual "Billionaires' Digerati Dinner". Rupert Murdoch and Naomi Judd, Jeffrey Katzenberg and Richard Dawkins, Jeff Bezos and Steven Pinker, and god knows how many journalistic hangers on from Wired, the Atlantic, Time Out, NYT/WSJ. All invited by tentacular pop-science book agent John Brockman. What deals must have ensued? What plans discussed? It makes Davos seem like a backyard clam-bake. (And here's another brainiac elite bash). Do you wish you had been invited?

theplayethic — Thu, 17 Jan 2002 05:19:32 -0800

Happiness has zip to do with money. Anyone heard of Geoffrey Miller? He has v. interesting things to say about the relationship between human nature, money and power. Here, he has another take on global anti-Americanism.

bragadocchio — Sun, 14 Oct 2001 17:32:18 -0800

What Now? is a question answered by a number of a number of scientists and science writers at Edge.org, which asked them to point their vision towards the world to come. Bruce Sterling assesses the probability of certain outcomes of strife between America and the Middle East. Richard Dawkins writes about what we stand to lose if we are faced with a new Dark age. Freeman Dyson offers chilling thoughts regarding his memories of joy while listening to the bombing of London as a teenager in London in 1940. Amongst those, and many other answers are statements focusing on education, decentralization of resources, the power of consumerism, and a number of technological and social solutions. While it is important to look backwards for reasons, it's just as important to look forward. What will the future bring, and how can we act to shape that future?