By Sara Lippincott SARA LIPPINCOTT (1938-2023) was an editor specializing in nonfiction who edited some eighty books about science for the general public including bestsellers such as B...
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Frank Wilczek It came to me, viscerally, that the intricate calculations I’d done using pen and paper (and wastebasket) might somehow describe this entirely different realm of existence—...
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Patricia S. Churchland During my first neuroanatomy lecture, the patient presented to us was a former dean of the medical school who had suffered a small brainstem stroke. As he started to i...
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Mary Catherine Bateson Mary Catherine Bateson 1939–2021 INTRODUCTION BY JOHN BROCKMAN From the early days of Edge, Catherine Bateson was the gift that kept giving. Beginning in 1998...
Interview with Jennifer Jacquet © Hannah McKay / Reuters Jennifer Jacquet: "SHAME CAN LEAD TO REAL CHANGE RIGHT NOW" Many Americans publicly express their shame about the event...
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Life in the Time of COVID A Conversation with Larry Brilliant, MD We need to have a strong WHO, a strong United Nations, a strong global alliance for vaccines and immunizations (G...
A Conversation with David Kaiser Most historians of science, certainly these days, consider themselves historians. That means we use historical methods of research. We comb through the...
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A Conversation with Ainissa Ramirez What I noticed over the years is that people were starting to see science as entertainment and not as a tool or a lens to understand the world. The ...
A Conversation with Stephen Wolfram We're now in this situation where people just assume that science can compute everything, that if we have all the right input data and we have the r...
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by Daniel Kahneman It seems like yesterday, but Edge has been up and running for twenty-two years. Twenty-two years in which it has channeled a fast-flowing river of ideas from the...