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Edge.org
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Edge.org is an online magazine exploring scientific and intellectual ideas.[1][2][3] Its chief editor is the publisher John Brockman.
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The website is produced by Edge Foundation, Inc., which was created in 1988 as an outgrowth of The Reality Club.
In 2019, BuzzFeed News reviewed Edge's IRS filings and reported that Jeffrey 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]
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The Third Culture
Echo markets The Third Culture as a movement towards reintegration of literary and scientific thinking. The name is a nod toward scientist C. P. Snow's concept of the 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]
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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 title What We Believe But Cannot Prove: Today's Leading Thinkers on Science in the Age of Certainty with an introduction by the novelist Ian McEwan.[9]
- 2006: "What is your dangerous idea"?[10] The responses formed the book What Is Your Dangerous Idea?, which was published with an introduction by Steven Pinker and an afterword by Richard 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]
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Contributing authors
Carl Zimmer was also a former contributor but asked for his content to be removed after learning of the role of Jeffrey Epstein as a supporter of the foundation.[34]
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