The Internet And Politics
The dreams of network utopians vs. the realists. Is the Internet is a medium of emancipation and of revolution — or a tool of control and repression? Did Twitter and Facebook help stoke the flames of...
View ArticleTED: Esther Duflo – Social experiments to fight poverty
via TED: Alleviating poverty is more guesswork than science, and lack of data on aid’s impact raises questions about how to provide it. But Clark Medal-winner Esther Duflo says it’s possible to know...
View ArticleEdge: The New Science of Morality
An Edge Conference featuring Roy Baumeister, Paul Bloom, Joshua D. Greene, Jonathan Haidt, Sam Harris, Marc D. Hauser, Josua Knobe, Elizabeth Phelps and David Pizarro was held July 20-22, 2010. Edge...
View ArticleEDGE: Richard Thaler’s Question on overturned beliefs/science
Richard H. Thaler, Director of the Center for Decision Research at the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business, is the father of Behavioral Economics. In preparation for a new book he asked...
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Edge: Jaron Lanier – The Local-Global Flip
In a freewheeling hour-long conversation, Lanier touches on, and goes beyond the themes he launched in his influential 2006 Edge essay "Digital Maoism: The Hazards of the New Online Collectivism." What...
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The Edge Annual Question 2012
Edge's question for 2012: What Is Your Favourite Deep, Elegant, Or Beautiful Explanation?
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