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This document is a communication from John Brockman, Editor & Publisher of the Edge Foundation, Inc., containing 'Editorial Marching Orders' for the annual EDGE Question. It provides strict guidelines for contributors (avoiding politics, self-promotion, and common scientific tropes) and instructions for the press regarding the use of the content. The document bears a House Oversight Committee Bates stamp, indicating it was part of the investigation into Jeffrey Epstein (who was a known donor/associate of Brockman and Edge), though Epstein is not explicitly named in this specific text.
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| John Brockman | Editor & Publisher |
Author of the document/email, sending instructions to the EDGE community and press list.
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Mentioned as a topic to avoid.
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| Romney | Politician |
Mentioned as a topic to avoid.
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| Clinton | Politician |
Mentioned as a topic to avoid.
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| Gingrich | Politician |
Mentioned as a topic to avoid.
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| Edge Foundation, Inc. |
Nonprofit private operating foundation; the organization issuing the communication.
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| Nieman Foundation |
Mentioned as the publisher of an article written by Brockman in 2010.
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| House Oversight Committee |
Implied by the Bates stamp 'HOUSE_OVERSIGHT'.
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Brockman is giving 'marching orders' to the community.
Key Quotes (5)
"Say something new, true, and interesting based on your own experience, in 1,000 words or less."Source
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"As usual, no politics ("Democrat" "Republican") or politicians ("Obama" "Romney" "Clinton" "Gingrich", etc.)."Source
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"No self-promotion: no referencing your books, papers, courses."Source
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"This is the annual opportunity for the EDGE community to give something back, to provide an important public service..."Source
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"Edge Foundation, Inc. is a nonprofit private operating foundation under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code."Source
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>> EDITORIAL MARCHING ORDERS
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>> Of course, your own explanations are deep, elegant, and beautiful. But give it a rest for this exercise and please avoid citing your own theory, idea, explanation. Also, think of examples that are not completely obvious—we don't want a hundred people nominating natural selection, or relativity, or Turing machines.
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>> Say something new, true, and interesting based on your own experience, in 1,000 words or less.
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>> Go deeper than the news. Tell us something we don't know. This is not a purely scientific question: this is question about our culture and ourselves. The ideas we present on EDGE can offer a new set of metaphors to describe ourselves, our minds, the way we think, the world, and all of the things we know in it.
>>
>> As usual, no politics ("Democrat" "Republican") or politicians ("Obama" "Romney" "Clinton" "Gingrich", etc.). No editorials, Op-eds, opinion pieces, flippancy. No ad hominem comments. No self-promotion: no referencing your books, papers, courses. No "selling from the stage", pushing your well-known agenda. No footnotes, credits, or hyperlinks in the text: stay on the page. No anecdotes about spouses, significant others, kids, family pets. Write a stand-alone piece: don't respond to the pieces of other contributors already posted.
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>> This is the annual opportunity for the EDGE community to give something back, to provide an important public service, to make a statement by presenting uncompromisingly sophisticated science-minded thinking to a wide global audience. Be imaginative, exciting, compelling, inspiring. Tell a great story. Make an argument that makes a difference. Amaze and delight. Surprise us!
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>> TO THE EDGE PRESS LIST
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>> Last year's EDGE Question ("What Scientific Concept Would Improve Everybody's Cognitive Toolkit?" - http://goo.gl/bEzNP - generated 165 essays (115,000 words) and received global press attention - http://goo.gl/Ygxs7
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>> For some background on how the EDGE Annual Questions comes together, check out "A Big Question", an article I wrote for the Nieman Foundation in 2010 - http://goo.gl/udnZg
>> We expect at least as many contributions this year. Please feel free use up to 1,500 words of text (gratis) without further permission, provided that:
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>> (a) EDGE and its URL (www.edge.org) are mentioned in the first paragraph of your print and online piece; and
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>> (b) a hyperlink to the EDGE home page (http://www.edge.org) is provided in the first paragraph of your online edition.
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>> Edge Foundation, Inc. is a nonprofit private operating foundation under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code.
>>
>>
>> Happy New Year!
>>
>> John Brockman
>> Editor & Publisher
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>> EDITORIAL MARCHING ORDERS
>>
>> Of course, your own explanations are deep, elegant, and beautiful. But give it a rest for this exercise and please avoid citing your own theory, idea, explanation. Also, think of examples that are not completely obvious—we don't want a hundred people nominating natural selection, or relativity, or Turing machines.
>>
>> Say something new, true, and interesting based on your own experience, in 1,000 words or less.
>>
>> Go deeper than the news. Tell us something we don't know. This is not a purely scientific question: this is question about our culture and ourselves. The ideas we present on EDGE can offer a new set of metaphors to describe ourselves, our minds, the way we think, the world, and all of the things we know in it.
>>
>> As usual, no politics ("Democrat" "Republican") or politicians ("Obama" "Romney" "Clinton" "Gingrich", etc.). No editorials, Op-eds, opinion pieces, flippancy. No ad hominem comments. No self-promotion: no referencing your books, papers, courses. No "selling from the stage", pushing your well-known agenda. No footnotes, credits, or hyperlinks in the text: stay on the page. No anecdotes about spouses, significant others, kids, family pets. Write a stand-alone piece: don't respond to the pieces of other contributors already posted.
>>
>> This is the annual opportunity for the EDGE community to give something back, to provide an important public service, to make a statement by presenting uncompromisingly sophisticated science-minded thinking to a wide global audience. Be imaginative, exciting, compelling, inspiring. Tell a great story. Make an argument that makes a difference. Amaze and delight. Surprise us!
>>
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>> TO THE EDGE PRESS LIST
>>
>> Last year's EDGE Question ("What Scientific Concept Would Improve Everybody's Cognitive Toolkit?" - http://goo.gl/bEzNP - generated 165 essays (115,000 words) and received global press attention - http://goo.gl/Ygxs7
>>
>> For some background on how the EDGE Annual Questions comes together, check out "A Big Question", an article I wrote for the Nieman Foundation in 2010 - http://goo.gl/udnZg
>> We expect at least as many contributions this year. Please feel free use up to 1,500 words of text (gratis) without further permission, provided that:
>>
>> (a) EDGE and its URL (www.edge.org) are mentioned in the first paragraph of your print and online piece; and
>>
>> (b) a hyperlink to the EDGE home page (http://www.edge.org) is provided in the first paragraph of your online edition.
>>
>> Edge Foundation, Inc. is a nonprofit private operating foundation under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code.
>>
>>
>> Happy New Year!
>>
>> John Brockman
>> Editor & Publisher
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