The Third Culture: Beyond the Scientific Revolution

Curious Minds: How a Child Becomes a Scientist

What makes a child decide to become a scientist?•For Robert Sapolsky–Stanford professor of biology–it was an argument with a rabbi over a passage in the Bible.•Physicist Lee Smolin traces his inspiration to a volume of Einstein’s work, picked up

Intelligent Thought: Science Versus the Intelligent Design Movement

Evolutionary science lies at the heart of a modern understanding of the natural world. Darwin’s theory has withstood 150 years of scientific scrutiny, and today it not only explains the origin and design of living things, but highlights the importance o

What We Believe But Cannot Prove: Today's Leading Thinkers on Science in the Age of Certainty

More than one hundred of the world's leading thinkers write about things they believe in, despite the absence of concrete proof.Scientific theory, more often than not, is born of bold assumption, disparate bits of unconnected evidence, and educated leaps

What Is Your Dangerous Idea? : Today's Leading Thinkers on the Unthinkable

Düşünülmeyeni Düşünen Günümüzün Önde Gelen DüşünürleriKopernik'ten darwin'e, rıchard dawkıns'den jared dıamond, danıel c. Dennett, Brıan greene, matt rıdley ve howard gardner'a tehlikeli fikirlerDünyanın önde gelen bilim adamı ve

The Next Fifty Years: Science in the First Half of the Twenty-First Century

The New Humanists: Science at the Edge

When John Brockman’s essay, “The New Humanists” appeared on his popular cutting-edge science website, EDGE (www.edge.org), he received a record number of responses from the intellectuals of the EDGE community. In his essay, Brockman noted that the A

Thinking: The New Science of Decision-Making, Problem-Solving, and Prediction

Unlock your mindFrom the bestselling authors of Thinking, Fast and Slow; The Black Swan; and Stumbling on Happiness comes a cutting-edge exploration of the mysteries of rational thought, decision-making, intuition, morality, willpower, problem-solving, pr

What Should We Be Worried About? Real Scenarios That Keep Scientists Up at Night

Drawing from the horizons of science, today's leading thinkers reveal the hidden threats nobody is talking about—and expose the false fears everyone else is distracted by.What should we be worried about? That is the question John Brockman, publisher of

Life: The Leading Edge of Evolutionary Biology, Genetics, Anthropology, and Environmental Science

The newest addition to John Brockman's Edge.org series explores life itself, bringing together the world's leading biologists, geneticists, and evolutionary theorists--including Richard Dawkins, Edward O. Wilson, J. Craig Venter, and Freeman Dyson.Scienti