The work that I'm best known for is flow theory and the studies of flow experience. People have applied the studies all over the world, and it has influenced many schools, factories, offices, and...
The first of those is ineffability: “it defies expression.” Since I’m aiming to tell you a story, ineffability is an inconvenient feature. Nevertheless, I’ll give it a try. It happened ...
https://www.edge.org/conversation/frank_wilczek-my-mystical-moment
Heaven had opened its gates to me. Hyde, as it turned out, had studied some philosophy. It emerged that we shared a deep-seated conviction: so-called Conceptual Analysis (aka haggling about meani...
https://www.edge.org/conversation/patricia_s_churchland-hands-on
EDGE CONVERSATIONS HOW TO BE A SYSTEMS THINKER A CONVERSATION WITH MARY CATHERINE BATESON > At the moment, I’m asking myself how people think about complex wholes like the ecology ...
We need to have a strong WHO, a strong United Nations, a strong global alliance for vaccines and immunizations (GAVI), a strong Global Fund, and all these different organelles that make it pos...
https://www.edge.org/video/a-very-bumpy-ride-life-in-the-time-of-covid-part-2
A VERY BUMPY RIDE, PART 1: LIFE IN THE TIME OF COVID LARRY BRILLIANT: I'm going to talk about the pandemic and where we are at this moment in time, but it is Thanksgiving, and I'm reminded tha...
BEST-CASE AND WORST-CASE SCENARIOS Naturally, the thing that comes up every day, and that people are constantly asking me, is the relation of the world crisis going on now to the personal cris...
https://www.edge.org/conversation/jared_diamond-best-case-and-worst-case-scenarios
From: Richard Dawkins > "By Darwinian evolution he means evolution as Darwin > understood it, based on the competition for survival of > noninterbreeding species." > >�...
https://www.edge.org/conversation/freeman_dyson-remembering-freeman-dyson
1. CHARLES DARWIN (1809-1882). THE DIVERSITY PARADOX. In the Pirandello play, "Six Characters in Search of an Author", the six characters are actors who arrive at a theater to begin rehearsing...
https://www.edge.org/conversation/freeman_dyson-freeman-dyson-1923-2020
It's good enough for most purposes, actually. But if you get way beyond kindergarten, far enough to risk asking really deep questions, it becomes: what kind of a thing is a number? Now, when yo...
https://www.edge.org/conversation/reuben_hersh-reuben-hersh-1927-2020