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This article is about the U.S.-based science and technology think tank and website. For the UK organisation, seeEdge (educational foundation). For the educational support organization for women, seeEDGE Foundation.
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edge.org
Type of site
Group blog
Created byJohn Brockman
URLedge.org

Edge.org is anonline magazine exploringscientific andintellectual ideas.[1][2][3] Its chief editor is the publisherJohn Brockman.

The website is produced byEdge Foundation, Inc., which was created in 1988 as an outgrowth ofThe Reality Club.

In 2019, BuzzFeed News reviewed Edge's IRS filings and reported thatJeffrey Epstein was "by far its largest financial donor", and that "his association with Edge gave him access to leading scientists and figures in the tech industry."[4]

The Third Culture

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Echo marketsThe Third Culture as a movement towards reintegration of literary and scientific thinking. The name is a nod toward scientistC. P. Snow's concept ofthe two cultures of science and the humanities.John Brockman published a book of the same name whose themes are continued at the Edge website. Scientists and others are invited to contribute their thoughts in a manner accessible to non-specialist readers.[5]

Edge Question

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Edge poses its members an annual question:[6]

  • 1998: "What questions are you asking yourself?"[7]
  • 1999: "What is the most important invention in the past two thousand years?"
  • 2000: "What is today's most important unreported story?"
  • 2001: "What questions have disappeared?" and "What now?" This was the only year with two separate questions.
  • 2002: "What is your question? ... Why?"
  • 2003: "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?"
  • 2004: "What's your law?"
  • 2005: "What do you believe is true even though you cannot prove it?"[8] The responses generated were published as a book under the titleWhat We Believe But Cannot Prove: Today's Leading Thinkers on Science in the Age of Certainty with an introduction by the novelistIan McEwan.[9]
  • 2006: "What is your dangerous idea"?[10] The responses formed the bookWhat Is Your Dangerous Idea?, which was published with an introduction bySteven Pinker and an afterword byRichard Dawkins.[11]
  • 2007: "What are you optimistic about? Why?",[12] which resulted in a companion publication.[13]
  • 2008: "What have you changed your mind about?"[14] and the corresponding book published shortly thereafter.[15]
  • 2009: "What Will Change Everything? What game-changing scientific ideas and developments do you expect to live to see?"[16] and a book version.[17]
  • 2010: "How has the Internet changed the way you think?"[18] and associated book.[19]
  • 2011: "What Scientific Concept Would Improve Everybody's Cognitive Toolkit?"[20] and associated book.[19]
  • 2012: "What is your favorite deep, elegant, or beautiful explanation?"[21] and associated book.[22]
  • 2013: "What should we be worried about?"[23] and associated book.[24]
  • 2014: "What scientific idea is ready for retirement?"[25] and associated book.[26]
  • 2015: "What Do You Think About Machines that Think"[27] and associated book.[28]
  • 2016: "What Do You Think the Most Interesting Recent [Scientific] News? What makes it Important?"[29] and associated book.[30]
  • 2017: "What scientific term or concept ought to be more widely known?"[31] and associated book.[32]
  • 2018: "What is the last-question?"[33]

Contributing authors

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Carl Zimmer was also a former contributor but asked for his content to be removed after learning of the role ofJeffrey Epstein as asupporter of the foundation.[34]

References

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  1. ^Naughton, John (8 January 2012)."John Brockman: the man who runs the world's smartest website".The Guardian. Retrieved23 October 2017.
  2. ^Schappell, Elissa Schappell."A Mental Spring Cleaning".Vanity Fair. Retrieved23 October 2017.
  3. ^Upbin, Brian (5 October 2011)."Forbes Is Seeking Edge Thinkers".Forbes. Retrieved23 October 2017.
  4. ^"How Jeffrey Epstein Bankrolled An Exclusive Intellectual Boys Club And Reaped The Benefits".BuzzFeed News. 26 September 2019. Retrieved2021-10-03.
  5. ^John Brockman (1995).The Third Culture: Beyond the Scientific Revolution. Simon & Schuster.ISBN 0-684-82344-6.
  6. ^"Annual Question".www.edge.org. Retrieved2018-08-18.
  7. ^Brockman, John (1998)."1998: WHAT QUESTIONS ARE YOU ASKING YOURSELF?".www.edge.org. Retrieved2018-08-18.
  8. ^"What do you believe is true even though you cannot prove it?". edge.org. 2005. Archived fromthe original on 2012-09-30. Retrieved2008-11-24.
  9. ^What We Believe But Cannot Prove: Today's Leading Thinkers on Science in the Age of Certainty.Free Press, UK. 2005.ISBN 9781416522614.
  10. ^"What is your dangerous idea?". edge.org. 2006. Archived fromthe original on 2007-10-12. Retrieved2008-11-24.
  11. ^What Is Your Dangerous Idea?: Today's Leading Thinkers on the Unthinkable. Harper Perennial. 2007.ISBN 978-0-06-121495-0.
  12. ^"What are you optimistic about? Why?". edge.org. 2007. Archived fromthe original on 2008-12-12. Retrieved2008-11-24.
  13. ^John Brockman, ed. (2007).What Are You Optimistic About?: Today's Leading Thinkers on Why Things Are Good and Getting Better. HarperCollins.ISBN 978-0-06-143693-2.
  14. ^"What have you changed your mind about?". edge.org. 2008.[permanent dead link]
  15. ^John Brockman, ed. (13 January 2009).What Have You Changed Your Mind About?: Today's Leading Minds Rethink Everything. Harper Perennial.ISBN 978-0-06-168654-2.
  16. ^"What Will Change Everything? What game-changing scientific ideas and developments do you expect to live to see?". edge.org. 2009.[permanent dead link]
  17. ^John Brockman, ed. (2010).This Will Change Everything: Ideas That Will Shape The Future. HarperCollins.ISBN 978-0-06-189967-6.
  18. ^"How has the Internet changed the way you think?". edge.org. 2010. Archived fromthe original on 2010-02-09. Retrieved2010-01-09.
  19. ^abIs the Internet changing the way you think? : the net's impact on our minds and future. Brockman, John, 1941-, Edge.org. (1st ed.). New York: Harper Perennial. 2011.ISBN 9780062020444.OCLC 641534355.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
  20. ^"What Scientific Concept Would Improve Everybody's Cognitive Toolkit?". edge.org. 2011. Archived fromthe original on 2011-01-27. Retrieved2011-01-27.
  21. ^"What is your favorite deep, elegant, or beautiful explanation?". edge.org. 2012.
  22. ^This explains everything : deep, beautiful, and elegant theories of how the world works. Brockman, John, 1941- (1st ed.). New York: Harper Perennial. 2013.ISBN 9780062230171.OCLC 795758008.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
  23. ^"What should we be worried about?". edge.org. 2013. Retrieved2013-02-18.
  24. ^What should we be worried about? : real scenarios that keep scientists up at night. Brockman, John, 1941-, Edge.org. (First ed.). New York, NY. 2014.ISBN 9780062296238.OCLC 849787401.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) CS1 maint: others (link)
  25. ^"What scientific idea is ready for retirement?". edge.org. 2014. Retrieved2015-12-21.
  26. ^This idea must die : scientific ideas that are blocking progress. Brockman, John, 1941- (First ed.). New York. 17 February 2015.ISBN 9780062374349.OCLC 881042113.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) CS1 maint: others (link)
  27. ^"What Do You Think About Machines that Think?". edge.org. 2014. Retrieved2015-01-19.
  28. ^What to think about machines that think : today's leading thinkers on the age of machine intelligence. Brockman, John, 1941- (First ed.). New York. 6 October 2015.ISBN 9780062425652.OCLC 922877862.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) CS1 maint: others (link)
  29. ^"WHAT DO YOU CONSIDER THE MOST INTERESTING RECENT [SCIENTIFIC] NEWS? WHAT MAKES IT IMPORTANT? | Edge.org".www.edge.org. Retrieved2017-01-01.
  30. ^Know this : today's most interesting and important scientific ideas, discoveries, and developments. Brockman, John, 1941- (First ed.). New York, NY. 7 February 2017.ISBN 9780062562067.OCLC 964787935.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) CS1 maint: others (link)
  31. ^"2017: What scientific term or concept ought to be more widely known?". edge.org. 2017. Retrieved2017-04-02.
  32. ^This idea is brilliant : lost, overlooked, and underappreciated scientific concepts everyone should know. Brockman, John, 1941- (First ed.). New York. 16 January 2018.ISBN 9780062698216.OCLC 1019711625.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) CS1 maint: others (link)
  33. ^"2018: What is the last question?". edge.org. 2018. Retrieved2018-08-07.
  34. ^"How Jeffrey Epstein Bankrolled An Exclusive Intellectual Boys Club And Reaped The Benefits".BuzzFeed News. 26 September 2019. Retrieved2021-10-03.

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