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From: John Brockman <~lEIMI> To: Richard Dawkins < 1~>, "Daniel C. Dennett" <Daniel.Dennett ufts.edu>, Jared Diamond <diamond eo .ucla.edu> Steven Pinker , Daniel Kahneman Anne Treisman Eric Kandel Sam Harris Jerry Coyne Martin Rees , Brian Greene Frank Wilczek , Janna Levin , Nicholas Humphrey Simon Baron-Cohen Trac Day , David Deutsch , Jeffrey Epstein <[email protected]>, "W. Daniel Hillis" Richard Thaler <Richard.Thale chicagobooth.edu>, Clay Shirk Nicholas Carr , Nassim Nicholas Taleb , George Church ,John Tooby "Michael S. Gazzaniga" Vilayanur Ramac hand r all Lewis Wol ert , Eva Wisten Jennifer Jacquet Andrian Kreyc "J.E. Safra/Doumanian" Elaine Pagel, Czerny Steffi David Gelernter Jean Doumanian , Tim O'Reill Rodney Brooks Jaron Lanier Leda Cosmides <cosmides e s ch.ucsb.edu>, Martin Nowak William McEwan , David Brooks ,Jonathan Haidt Rosie Williams , Mark Patel PZ M ers , "Lawrence M. Krauss" Brian Eno Sendhil Mullainathan Mary Evers , Helen Fisher , Xeni Jardin Craig Venter June Cohen Christo her Anderson , "Heather E. Kowalski" Jason Wishnow , Freeman Dyson Subject: Observer: The Man Who Runs The World's Smartest Website (Sunday, January 8th) Date: Sun, 08 Jan 2012 03:16:24 +0000 Attachments: The_New_Review.page1.pdf; The_New_Review.page12.pdf; The_New_Review.page13.pdf; The_New_Review.page14.pdf; The_New_Review.page15.pdf The Guardian/Observer THE NEW REVIEW Sunday, January 8, 2012 THE MAN WHO RUNS THE WORLD'S SMARTEST WEBSITE Since the mid-1960s John Brockman has been at the cutting edge of ideas. He is a passionate advocate of both science and the arts, and his website Edge is a salon for the world's finest minds John Naughton To say that John Brockman is a literary agent is like saying that David Hockney is a photographer. For while it's true that Hockney has indeed made astonishingly creative use of photography, and Brockman is indeed a successful literary agent who represents an enviable stable of high-profile scientists and communicators, in both cases the description rather understates the reality. More accurate ways of describing Brockman would be to say EFTA00877601 that he is a "cultural impresario" or, as his friend Stewart Brand puts it, an "intellectual enzyme". (Brand goes on helpfully to explain that an enzyme is "a biological catalyst — an adroit enabler of otherwise impossible things".) PDFs (with photographs) below - click on images to read Guardian Online: http://www.guardian.co.ulthechnology/2012/jan/08/john-brocicman-edge-interview-john- naughton?newsfeed=true EFTA00877602