Link: sevenload.com Edge 235, Life a Gene-Centric View. Craig Venter & Richard Dawkins: A Conversation in Munich: “It’s not everyday you have Richard Dawkins and Craig Venter on a stage talking for an hour about “Life: A Gene-Centric View”. That it occured in Germany, where the culture has been resistant to open discussion of genetics, [...]
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Edge @ DLD: Life: A gene-centric View
February 6th, 2008
Tags: biology · craig venter · dna · edge · evolution · richard dawkins
The Edge Annual Question — 2008
January 2nd, 2008
Edge, The Edge Annual Question — 2008: “When thinking changes your mind, that’s philosophy. When God changes your mind, that’s faith. When facts change your mind, that’s science. WHAT HAVE YOU CHANGED YOUR MIND ABOUT? WHY? Science is based on evidence. What happens when the data change? How have scientific findings or arguments changed your [...]
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Formulae for the 21st century
October 19th, 2007
John Brockman: “I recently paid a visit to the Serpentine Gallery in Kensington Gardens, London to see Swiss curator Hans Ulrich Obrist, a long-time friend with whom I have a mutual connection: we both worked closely with the late James Lee Byars, the conceptual artist who, in 1971, implemented “The World Question Center” as a [...]
Tags: art · edge · forumula · science · serpentine gallery
Anyone feeling nostalgic for the “wisdom” of the Aztecs?
September 14th, 2007
Sam Harris: “Haidt concludes his essay with this happy blandishment: “every longstanding ideology and way of life contains some wisdom, some insights into ways of suppressing selfishness, enhancing cooperation, and ultimately enhancing human flourishing.” Surely we can all agree about this. Our bets have been properly hedged (the ideology must be “longstanding” and need only [...]
Tags: atheism · edge · jonathan haidt · religion · sam harris