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Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1998 12:20:45 -0400 (EDT)

Edge

http://www.edge.org/

Edge is:

To arrive at the edge of the world's knowledge, seek out the most complex
and sophisticated minds, put them in a room together and have them ask
each other the questions they are asking themselves.

Edge Foundation, Inc., was established in 1988 as an outgrowth of a group
known as The Reality Club. Its informal membership includes of some of the
most interesting minds in the world. 

Recent Contents:

     The Demise of Affirmative Action at
   UC Berkeley
   Howard Gardner, David Bunnell, Richard
   Dawkins, Daniel C. Dennett, and Philip W.
   Anderson on John McWhorter's "The
   Demise of Affirmative Action at UC
   Berkeley" 

     CODE
   George Dyson & John Brockman: A
   Dialogue 

     How is Personality Formed?
   Judith Rich Harris on Frank J. Sulloway 

     Sexual Selection and the Mind
   Jaron Lanier and Marc Hauser on Geoffrey
   Miller 

     The 2 Steves
   Patrick Bateson on the debate between
   Steven Pinker and Steven Rose 

     Reflections on Jared Diamond's Talk
   Bill Gates on Pulitzer Prize winner Jared
   Diamond's "Why Did Human History Unfold
   Differently On Different Continents For The
   Last 13,000 Years?" 

     The World Question Center
   More questions leading thinkers are asking
   themselves. Questions and discourse from
   Pattie Maes, Anne Fausto-Sterling, Stephen
   H. Schneider, Stewart Brand, Paolo
   Pignatelli, and Duncan Steel. 

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