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The Edge http://www.edge.org/documents/whatnow.html

This feature from the nonprofit Edge Foundation, Inc. is an impressive collection of thoughtful words in response to the recent terrorist attacks and ensuing war. The Edge postulated the question, "What now?" to its members with the idea that, as editor John Brockman explains, "within the community is invaluable expertise in many pertinent areas, not to mention the intelligence that the 'Edgies' can bring to the subjects." What separates this forum from many others dealing with recent issues of terrorism is that Brockman asks for "'hardedge' comments, derived from empirical results or experience specific to the expertise of the contributors," rather than emotional or purely rhetorical responses.

Here are a few of the pieces some essay length, others only a few sentences found here: psychiatrist Richard Rabkin takes a "strategic psychotherapy" approach to dealing with terrorism, science writer and television commentator Margaret Wertheim and archaeologist Timothy Taylor both touch on the corruption of science by weapons development as well as the intermingling of science and religion, and evolutionary scholar Richard Dawkins brings up the tendency to "bend over backwards to see the other point of view and blame ourselves for everything."

Take time to peruse this collection of 44,000 words from 55 contributors and you'll be glad you did. [HCS]

From The Scout Report, Copyright Internet Scout Project 19942001.
http://scout.cs.wisc.edu/

Rita R. Handrich, PhD

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