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Two responses to Edge.org’s The World Question Center 2011: “What scientific concept would improve everybody’s cognitive toolkit?”
—Cognitive scientist Gary Marcus, New York University
—Stewart Brand, founder of the Whole Earth Catalog; cofounder and cochairman of The Long Now Foundation
—Jan Zalasiewicz et al., in a special issue of Phil Trans Royal Soc A devoted to atmospheric chemist Paul Crutzen’s call for naming a new geologic epoch defined by the actions of humans (Mar. 13, 2011)
—New York Times journalist Dennis Overbye, in an interview on the blog Marketing for Scientists (Mar. 25, 2011)
—Freeman Dyson, reviewing James Gleick’s The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood(The New York Review of Books, Mar. 10, 2011)
—University of Leeds molecular epidemiologist C.P. Wild, in Cancer Epidemiol ...
