15 Years of Cutting-Edge Thinking on Understanding the Mind
What do mirror neurons have to do with Abu Ghraib, the science of religion, and how happiness flourishes? For the past 15 years, literary-agent-turned-crusader-of-human-progress John Brockman has been a remarkable curator of curiosity, long before either “curator” or “curiosity” was a frivolously tossed around buzzword. His Edge.org has become an epicenter of bleeding-edge insight across…
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Maria Popova - Brain Pickings
The First Shared Universes
The “shared universe” is one of the mainstays of science fiction. It’s what happens when a number of characters from a wide range of texts — whether books, comic books, or movies — co-exist under the umbrella of one company, and wind up sharing a fictional world too. Many of us grew up with the…
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Jess Nevins