Where leading scientific thinkers and popular culture meet

Know This: Today’s Most Interesting and Important Scientific Ideas, Discoveries, and Developments Editor: John Brockman Publisher: Harper Perennial Writing about new frontiers of discovery and strategies to solve the world’s problems, Pope Francis cuts through the complexity: "No branch of the sciences and no form of wisdom can be left out, and that includes religion and the language particular to it." Edge.org is a website established in the same spirit. Its founder, polymath John Brockman, describes himself as an impresario of science and an enzyme to bridge science and the humanities into a "third culture" of imagination. As an online discussion forum for elite, shape-shifting thinkers, Edge.org aims to spur leaps of creativity and foster interdisciplinary ideas that cut to the heart of the world’s challenges. Brockman poses an annual question to Edge members. The 2015 question was, "What do you consider the most interesting recent scientific news and what makes it important?" Kn...