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Send .t Become a member Member sign in Search Advanced Search For journalists For bloggers PR Newswire Global sites Q Pmeuctsa Servers Q New Release: Weed &n*tµ Wait 3 Products 8 Services Knowledge Center Browse News Releases Contact PR Newswire See more news re:eases .n. ircernei Technology. Comp.,:ei Eiez tonics. Web Site. Education. New Products& Services. Not For Featured Video Profil World's Smartest Think Tank Gets Substantial Backing from The Jeffrey Epstein VI Foundation f *Tweet ea Share Haels.coma Takes New VOA City on a 'Bed✓eotuit The Edge Foundation Inc. receives significant financial support from science investor, Jeffrey Epstein. Print Email RSS Snare it NEW YORK. July 3.2012 PRNevrEnvire/— What has been dubbed 'the world's smartest website' and think tank from the UK's Guardian and Observer, The Edge Foundation, has just received substantial backing from science philanthropist and Edge Blog 4•••• member. Jeffrey Epstein. and his foundation The Jeffrey Epstein VI Foundaton. Founded in t996 byJohn Brockman. a cultural author, agent and expeditor of everything thought-provoking and avant-garde. Slog Search •••• the Edge Foundation. Inc.. known as 'Edge", is an online venue for the greatest minds in the sciences. social sciences and literature to share their ideas—but not just random ideas: cutting-edge ideas beyond the frontier of common knowledge. Ideas More in these Categories that challenge the constancy of the speed of light the existence of a gravitron and things like that We live in a mass-produced culture where ...people...1ml themselves to secondhand ideas.' Brockman asserts. 'Show me Internet Technology people who create their own reality, who don't accept an ersatz appropriated reality. Show me the empiricists ...who are out there doing it rather than talking about and analyzing the people who are doing it? Brockman asserts. OCCbee LaunChet New VIN-Fl Enabled SMall 'Mannedlad fa The roster at Edge is a treasure trove of over 660 virtuosi, geniuses and masterminds including countless university department Commercial orreplceccre The heads, authors. PhD's and a host of Nobel Laureates including: physicist Frank Wilczek. chemist Kary Mullis, economist. Daniel ecobee El Si Kahneman. theoretical Physicist Gerard r Hooft. theoretical physicist Waren Heisenberg. biochemist. Eric Kandel. chemist and physicist. Leon Lederman. neurologist and biochemist Stanley Prusiner. Well-known writers include: Brian Greene. Richard Nellbc to MONACO SeCend.OuSitei Dawkins. Leonard Susskind, Freeman Dyson and tan McEwan. 2012 FilaneiNIReeutS Unlike the exclusive salons of the 18th Century. or present day Mensa-type institutes. The Edge is proudly open to the public. Nally Named a Leader in Anyone can go to its website nwtiedge org and read the daily conversations and essays by Edge members and their independent Anatyal RIM% Fret responses to Brockman' annual question, which this year is: 'What is your favorite. deep. elegant or favorite explanation?' ALM btaq C 04.achant This open approach stems perhaps from its humble roots: a roving gathering of intellectuals in New York City. called The Realty Club. which regularly met from 1981 to 1996 in restaurants, lofts. at Rockefeller University. the New York Academy of Sciences. New Products & Services ballrooms and elsewhere. But its openness also comes from Brocicman's philosophy of challenging the public with mind- breaking ideas. Most Read 'Great ideas are meaningless. if they are not shared? Jeffrey Epstein remarked, whose own foundation supports science education and research around the world. They challenge. teach and inspire a new generabon of maverick thinkers. 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