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Announcements, new editions, travel, diving, cooking and the working life of a novelist — 230 entries, all of them here in full.
January 5, 2008 · 89 words
This Year’s Edge Question
This year, the Edge Institute’s question is, “What have you changed your mind about?”They asked this question of 164 people, from Alan Alda to Anton Zeilinger. A few science fiction writers are also in the mix.Here are the results. The essays cover physics, psychology, social sciences, linguistics, art, even science fi
Read entry →January 3, 2008 · 302 words
Philosophers’ Dinner
It’s back-to-work time here at the Williams ranchero, the difference being that I never actually left work during the holidays, except for Christmas dinner at the Denning/Rogers manse, and for a party we threw on the 30th. The rest of the time I was concentrating on my deadlines, which abound. The party last Sunday was
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