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Joined June 2008
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Tim O'Reilly
@timoreilly24 Jul 2019
People send me so many books that they hope I'll review that they pile up on top of the books that I'm actually working with. But sometimes just taking a quick look gives me new ideas. And fortunately, I have time to read some of them! Which ones should I dive into first? – at Oakland, CA
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Steven Pinker
@sapinker29 Jun 2019
My new PNAS paper w Julian De Freitas, Kyle Thomas & Peter DeScioli (Common knowledge, coordination, and strategic mentalizing in human social life) is open-access (we paid through the nose for this, so please take advantage; a PDF can be downloaded here). pnas.org/content/pnas/early/…
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Some cracking questions in here. I've got my copy - have you?
John Brockman@edge2 Jun 2019
George Church asks his Final Question in "The Last Unknowns." Pre-order now: tinyw.in/NsH8
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My step-daughter Anna has a new science show, starting today, at the WaPo. Here's today's new episode, about butts. Anna has never been afraid of getting a little gross. youtube.com/watch?v=B-SQvmMh…

Why do we have butts? ft. John Cena

In which John Cena asked the age-old question, “Why do we have butt...

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Gary Marcus
@GaryMarcus18 May 2018
remember how DeepMind bragged about how AlphaZero only required four hours of training? maybe so, but check out the insane amount of compute they managed to burn in those four hours. illuminating graph @OpenAI blog.openai.com/ai-and-compu…
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Steven Pinker
@sapinker12 Dec 2017
First review pf Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress by Steven Pinker. Viking, publishersweekly.com/978-0-5… via @publisherswkly

Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress by Steven Pinker

Harvard psychology professor Pinker (The Sense of Style) defends progressive ideals against contemporary critics, pundits, canta...

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Kevin Kelly is the world’s leading intrepid traveler AND acute futurist. xitter.cf/kevin2kelly/status/921…
Kevin Kelly
@kevin2kelly21 Oct 2017
My piece in @WIRED on what I learned from Mongolia: wired.com/story/what-mongoli…

What Mongolian Nomads Teach Us About the Digital Future

I trekked with nomads. Their attitude about possessions presages a new age of traveling light.

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Joi Ito
@Joi22 Aug 2017
Thanks for the great @whiplashfuture book review! - Booting Up @bostonherald bostonherald.com/business/te…
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gone@gone1004324 Jul 2017
Today is the 25th anniversary of the J. Craig Venter institute starting as TIGR in 1992. Congratulations to many scientists that made us #1
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Steven Pinker
@sapinker25 Jul 2017
KPFA explains Dawkins's de-platforming whyevolutionistrue.wordpress… via @Evolutionistrue

KPFA explains Dawkins’s de-platforming

Several readers in this morning’s “Jeff Tayler/Godless Spellchecker” piece called to our attention the posting of an “explanation” by radio station KPFA in Berkeley ab…

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VS Ramachandran the great neurologist joins Daniel Dennett & Steven Pinker in denouncing @KPFA’s cowardly hypocrisy bit.ly/2txzYMo
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"Rank and response: A field experiment on peer information and water use behavior" by @spbhanot sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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Data's role in digital capitalism: accelerate the shift of wealth to the rich while giving the poor an illusion of "freedom via the market"
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Damian Fogarty
@DamianFog16 Jul 2017
Replying to @shanemuk @markataylor16 @obrien_dr @CHCNorth @ccio_ni
I'm rethinking everything with my summer reading! No more stats or data from me (for a while😎)! #AnecdotesRule via @roughtype via @edge
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"The Smart-Medicine Solution to the Health-Care Crisis" @EricTopol front page piece in WSJ "The Review" on.wsj.com/2uKk7qu
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Steven Pinker
@sapinker6 Jul 2017
Nice retrospective on Edge, including the Annual Edge Question. xitter.cf/edge/status/8826725396…
John Brockman@edge5 Jul 2017
Interesting piece in NZZ (Zurich): "20 years online platform: Edge. Where Avant-Garde Thinking Reflects The Present" bit.ly/2sk5HvB
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Katherine Dettwyler ideas are cruel & racist. But online mobs & firing profs for expressing views is also dangerous washingtonpost.com/news/morn…

Professor who said ‘clueless white male’ Otto Warmbier got ‘what he deserved’ won’t be rehired

The student who died after 17 months in a North Korean prison was in the same league as “clueless white males” who “routinely get away with raping women,” Kathrine Dettwyler wrote.

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Sean Carroll
@seanmcarroll26 Jun 2017
Taking away health insurance from 22 million people, so that rich people can get a tax cut. vox.com/health-care/2017/6/2…

Read: CBO score projects 22 million to lose coverage under Senate Republicans’ health care bill

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Richard H Thaler
@R_Thaler26 Jun 2017
This is really it in a nutshell. There are lots of ways to improve the ACA. This bill is not one of them. xitter.cf/ObsoleteDogma/status/8…
Matt O'Brien@ObsoleteDogma26 Jun 2017
Republicans are trying to take health care from the poor to pay for a tax cut for the rich at a time of already historic inequality.
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Jess Tracy@ProfJessTracy26 Jun 2017
#Testosterone makes us think we know more, but actually know less. Hubris hormone? Great article by @ThereseHuston nyti.ms/2u11hu9
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