THIS IDEA MUST DIE

Each year, John Brockman, publisher of Edge.orgThe worlds smartest website (The Guardian)challenges some of the worlds greates t scientists, artists, and philosophers to answer a provocative question crucial to our time. In 2014 he asked 175 brilliant minds t o ponder: What scientific idea needs to be put aside in order to make room for new ideas to advance? The answers are as surprising a s they are illuminating. In :Steven Pinker dismantles the working theory of human behaviorRichard Dawkins renounces essentialismSher ry Turkle reev...[Read more]