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‘obs SR eee aSe tee PAI RIC RR EC >> >> EDITORIAL MARCHING ORDERS >> >> Of course, your own explanations are deep, elegant, and beautiful. But give it a rest for this exercise and please avoid citing your own theory, idea, explanation. Also, think of examples that are not completely obvious—we don't want a hundred people nominating natural selection, or relativity, or Turing machines. >> >> Say something new, true, and interesting based on your own experience, in 1,000 words or less. = >> Go deeper than the news. Tell us something we don't know. This is not a purely scientific question: this is question about our culture and ourselves. The ideas we present on EDGE can offer a new set of metaphors to describe ourselves, our minds, the way we think, the world, and all of the things we know in it. >> >> As usual, no politics ("Democrat" "Republican") or politicians ("Obama" "Romney" "Clinton" "Gingrich", etc.). No editorials, Op-eds, opinion pieces, flippancy. No ad hominem comments. No self-promotion: no referencing your books, papers, courses. No "selling from the stage", pushing your well-known agenda. No footnotes, credits, or hyperlinks in the text: stay on the page. No anecdotes about spouses, significant others, kids, family pets. Write a stand-alone piece: don't respond to the pieces of other contributors already posted. >> >> This is the annual opportunity for the EDGE community to give something back, to provide an important public service, to make a statement by presenting uncompromisingly sophisticated science-minded thinking to a wide global audience. Be imaginative, exciting, compelling, inspiring. Tell a great story. Make an argument that makes a difference. Amaze and delight. Surprise us! bis SO ere cescenneeeie esr ne nacre RRS EET ESTES IR RO bh >> TO THE EDGE PRESS LIST bh >> Last year's EDGE Question ("What Scientific Concept Would Improve Everybody's Cognitive Toolkit?" - http://goo.gl/bEzNP - generated 165 essays (115,000 words) and received global press attention - http://goo.gl/Y gxs7 ‘obs >> For some background on how the EDGE Annual Questions comes together, check out "A Big Question", an article I wrote for the Nieman Foundation in 2010 - http://goo.gl/udnZg >> We expect at least as many contributions this year. Please feel free use up to 1,500 words of text (gratis) without further permission, provided that: >> >> (a) EDGE and its URL (www.edge.org) are mentioned in the first paragraph of your print and online piece; and >> >> (b) a hyperlink to the EDGE home page (http://www.edge.org) is provided in the first paragraph of your online edition. = >> Edge Foundation, Inc. is a nonprofit private operating foundation under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. >> >> >> Happy New Year! >> >> John Brockman >> Editor & Publisher HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_023456