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Recently we have published a number of Conversations on related subjects such as "Big Data", "Linked Data", "Data Science", "Web Science", "Semantic Web", "Network Science". Clearly, a new realm is rapidly coming into public consciousness.
In this regard, we have set up this "Special Event" page on "Computational Social Science" to organize and present this material to our readers and to provide access to the ongoing Edge Conversations and related discussions.
Published to date are eight Conversations with: Dirk Helbing, Nicholas A. Christakis, J. Craig Venter, J. Craig Venter, Cesar Hidalgo, Sandy Pentland, Albert-László Barabási and Tim O'Reilly. The presentations include more than five hours of video as well as the texts.
—John Brockman
A Conversation with Tim O'Reilly [10.4.12]
If we're going to get science policy right, it's really important for us to study the economic benefit of open access and not accept the arguments of incumbents. Existing media companies claim that they need ever stronger and longer copyright protection and new, draconian laws to protect them, and meanwhile, new free ecosystems, like the Web, have actually led to enormous wealth creation and enormous new opportunities for social value. And yes, they did in fact lead in some cases to the destruction of incumbents, but that's the kind of creative destruction that we should celebrate in the economy. We have to accept that, particularly in the area of science, there's an incredible opportunity for open access to enable new business models.
TIM O'REILLY is the founder and CEO of O'Reilly Media, Inc., a leading computer book publisher. O'Reilly Media also hosts conferences on technology topics, including the O'Reilly Open Source Convention, the Strata series of conferences on big data, and Tools of Change for Publishing. O'Reilly Media's Maker Media unit publishes Make Magazine and operates Maker Faire, the world's largest gathering of DIY hardware enthusiasts and entrepreneurs. O'Reilly AlphaTech Ventures is a leading early stage venture capital firm.
A Conversation with Albert-lászló Barabási [9.24.12]
One question that fascinated me in the last two years is, can we ever use data to control systems? Could we go as far as, not only describe and quantify and mathematically formulate and perhaps predict the behavior of a system, but could you use this knowledge to be able to control a complex system, to control a social system, to control an economic system?
ALBERT-LÁSZLÓ BARABÁSI is a Distinguished University Professor at Northeastern University, where he directs the Center for Complex Network Research, and holds appointments in the Departments of Physics, Computer Science and Biology, as well as in the Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women Hospital, and is a member of the Center for Cancer Systems Biology at Dana Farber Cancer Institute.
Albert-László Barabási Edge Bio Page
A Conversation with Alex (Sandy) Pentland [8.30.12]
With Big Data we can now begin to actually look at the details of social interaction and how those play out, and are no longer limited to averages like market indices or election results. This is an astounding change. The ability to see the details of the market, of political revolutions, and to be able to predict and control them is definitely a case of Promethean fire --- it could be used for good or for ill, and so Big data brings us to interesting times. We're going to end up reinventing what it means to have a human socie
ALEX 'SANDY' PENTLAND is a pioneer in big data, computational social science, mobile and health systems, and technology for developing countries. He is one of the most-cited computer scientists in the world and was named by Forbes as one of the world's seven most powerful data scientists. He currently directs the
Sandy Pentland's Edge Bio Page
A Conversation with Cesar Hidalgo [8.28.12]
We have always had this tension of understanding the world, at small spatial scales or individual scales, and large macro scales. In the past when we looked at macro scales, at least when it comes to many social phenomena, we aggregated everything. Our idea of macro is, by an accident of history, a synonym of aggregate, a mass in which everything is added up and in which individuality is lost. What data at high spatial resolution, temporal resolution and typological resolution is allowing us to do, is to see the big picture without losing the individuality inside it.
CESAR HIDALGO is an assistant professor at the MIT Media Lab, and faculty associate at Harvard University's Center for International Development. His work focuses on improving the understanding of systems by using and developing concepts of complexity, evolution, and network science. He is also the founder and driving force behind Cambridge Nights, a series of online video interviews with academics who discuss the way in which they view the world.
A NEW KIND OF SOCIAL SCIENCE FOR THE 21st CENTURY
A Conversation with Nicholas A. Christakis [8.21.12]
These three things—a biological hurricane, computational social science, and the rediscovery of experimentation—are going to change the social sciences in the 21st century. With that change will come, in my judgment, a variety of discoveries and opportunities that offer tremendous prospect for improving the human condition.
It's one thing to say that the way in which we study our object of inquiry, namely humans, is undergoing profound change, as I think it is. The social sciences are indeed changing. But the next question is: is the object of inquiry also undergoing profound change? It's not just how we study it that's changing, which it is. The question is: is the thing itself, our humanity, also changing?
NICHOLAS A. CHRISTAKIS is a Physician and Social Scientist, Harvard University; Coauthor (with James Fowler) of Connected: The Surprising Power of Our Social Networks and How They Shape Our Lives.
Nicholas A. Chrsitakis's Edge Bio Page
[40:59 minutes]
After Dinner Talk by J. Craig Venter [7.10.12]
We can now send biology at the speed of light, and this is one of the implications of our work, which we recorded two years ago making the first synthetic life form. We completely synthesized the genetic code of a cell starting with a digital code in the computer—it's the ultimate interface between computers and biology. The digital code and the genetic code have a lot in common; something Schrodinger pointed out in 1943, saying it could be something as simple as the Morse code. ... Digital code, as you know, is a binary code, and ones and zeroes, and your genetic code is literally four-base code with ACGs and Ts. We can now readily convert in between the two, and we can define life at its most basic level. Things that were a mystery fifty, sixty, seventy years ago, we now understand completely.
Genomics researcher J. CRAIG VENTER is regarded as one of the leading scientists of the 21st century, most notably for the first sequencing and analysis of the human genome published in 2001 and the most recent and most complete sequencing of his diploid human genome in 2007. He is Co-Founder, Chairman, Synthetic Genomics, Inc.; Founder, J. Craig Venter Institute; Author, A Life Decoded.
J. Craig Venter's Edge Bio Page
[34:16 minutes]
WHAT IS LIFE? A 21st CENTURY PERSPECTIVE
On the 70th Anniversary of Schroedinger's Lecture at Trinity College by J. Craig Venter [7.12.12]
I view DNA as an analogue coding molecule, and when we sequence the DNA, we are converting that analogue code into digital code; the 1s and 0s in the computer are very similar to the dots and dashes of Schrodinger's metaphor. I call this process "digitizing biology".
Genomics researcher J. CRAIG VENTER is regarded as one of the leading scientists of the 21st century, most notably for the first sequencing and analysis of the human genome published in 2001 and the most recent and most complete sequencing of his diploid human genome in 2007. He is Co-Founder, Chairman, Synthetic Genomics, Inc.; Founder, J. Craig Venter Institute; Author, A Life Decoded.
J. Craig Venter's Edge Bio Page
Dirk Helbing [6.19.12]
There's a new kind of socio-inspired technology coming up, now. Society has many wonderful self-organization mechanisms that we can learn from, such as trust, reputation, culture. If we can learn how to implement that in our technological system, that is worth a lot of money; billions of dollars, actually. We think this is the next step after bio-inspired technology.
PROFESSOR DIRK HELBING is Chair of Sociology, in particular of Modeling and Simulation, at ETH Zurich – Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, and the Scientific Coordinator of the FuturICT Flagship Proposal.
Villa Miravalle at Spring Mountain
Daniel Kahneman & Richard Thaler at Edge Retreat, Spring Mountain Vineyard, August 2013
Jennifer Jacquet & Ginevra Elkann, President, Pinacoteca Giovanni e Marella Agnelli
Ginevra Elkann e Carlo Antonelli
hanno il piacere di invitarla all'
Edge dinner
in onore di John Brockman, Craig Venter e Brian Eno
martedì 10 luglio
ore 19.30 aperitivo
ore 20.30 cena
Ristorante Del Cambio – Piazza Carignano, 2 – Torino
After Dinner Talk:
Ginevra Elkann, Film Producer, Asmara Films; President, Pinacoteca Giovanni e Marella Agnelli
Massimo Banzi, Co-founder, Arduino Project
Gabriele Beccaria, Editor, Tutto Scienza, science supplement of La Stampa
Tommaso Bertani, DJ
Vittorio Bo, Director, Genoa Science Festival; Codice Publishing
John Brockman, Publisher & Editor, Edge.org; CEO, Brockman, Inc.; Author.
Mario Calabresi, Italian Journalist and Author; Director, La Stampa
Andrea Cane, Publishing Director, Trade Division, De Agostini Editore
Max Casacci, Guitarist, Producer
Franca De D'Agostini, Philosopher, University of Turin & University of Milan
Alain Elkann, Novelist, Journalist; President, Egyptian Museum of Turin; Director of Cultural Programs, Italian Television
Brian Eno, Artist; Composer; Recording Producer: U2, Coldplay, Talking Heads, Paul Simon; Recording Artist
Lara Favaretto, Artist
Marco Gilli, Director Politecnico di Torino; Professor, Department of Electronics and Telecommunication
Jennifer Jacquet, Researcher, NYU, studying the effect of honor and shame on cooperation
Heather Kowalski, Communications Consultant, J. Craig Venter Institute
Arto Lindsay, Pop Musician, Audio Provocateur, Producer
Katinka Matson, Artist; Literary Agent; President, Brockman, Inc.; Co-Founder, Edge.org
Marzia Migliora, Artist
Martina Mondadori, Publisher, Tar magazine; Non-Executive Member, Board of Directors, Momdadori
Franco Noero, Galleria Franco Noero
Marcella Pralormo, Director, Pinacoteca Agnelli
Gaetano Prisciantelli, Journalist, Il Venredi, La Rebbublica
Patrizia Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Director, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo
Tadjbakhsh Shahriar, COO, EXOR; Former Director, Goldman Sachs, Paris
Gianluigi Ricuperati, Writer and Essayist, La Repubblica
Scarlett Rouge, Artist
J Craig Venter, Genomics Researcher; Synthetic Genomics, Inc.; J. Craig Venter Institute; Author, A Life Decoded
J. Craig Venter & Ginevra Elkann
To celebrate the 70th anniversary of Schroedinger's famous lecture, J. Craig Venter speaks at Examination Hall, Trinity College, Dublin on
Ginevra Elkann e Carlo Antonelli
hanno il piacere di invitarla all'
Edge Dinner
in onore di John Brockman, J. Craig Venter e Brian Eno
martedi 10 Luglio
ore 19.30 aperitivo
ore 20.30 cena
Ristorante Del Cambio – Piazza Carignano, 2 – Torino
After Dinner Talk:
J. Craig Venter: "Biology At The Speed Of Light"
Ginevra Elkann, Film Producer, Asmara Films; President, Pinacoteca Giovanni e Marella Agnelli
Carlo Antonelli, Editor in Chief, Wired Magazine, Italy
Massimo Banzi, Co-founder, Arduino Project
Gabriele Beccaria, Editor, Tutto Scienza, science supplement of La Stampa
Tommaso Bertani, DJ
Vittorio Bo, Director, Genoa Science Festival; Codice Publishing
John Brockman, Publisher & Editor, Edge.org; CEO, Brockman, Inc.; Author.
Mario Calabresi, Italian Journalist and Author; Director, La Stampa
Andrea Cane, Publishing Director, Trade Division, De Agostini Editore
Max Casacci, Guitarist, Producer
Franca De D'Agostini, Philosopher, University of Turin & University of Milan
Alain Elkann, Novelist, Journalist; President, Egyptian Museum of Turin; Director of Cultural Programs, Italian Television
Brian Eno, Artist; Composer; Recording Producer: U2, Coldplay, Talking Heads, Paul Simon; Recording Artist
Lara Favaretto, Artist
Marco Gilli, Director Politecnico di Torino; Professor, Department of Electronics and Telecommunication
Jennifer Jacquet, Researcher, NYU, studying the effect of honor and shame on cooperation
Heather Kowalski, Communications Consultant, J. Craig Venter Institute
Arto Lindsay, Pop Musician, Audio Provocateur, Producer
Katinka Matson, Artist; Literary Agent; President, Brockman, Inc.; Co-Founder, Edge.org
Marzia Migliora, Artist
Martina Mondadori, Publisher, Tar magazine; Non-Executive Member, Board of Directors, Momdadori
Franco Noero, Galleria Franco Noero
Marcella Pralormo, Director, Pinacoteca Agnelli
Gaetano Prisciantelli, Journalist, Il Venredi, La Rebbublica
Patrizia Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Director, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo
Tadjbakhsh Shahriar, COO, EXOR; Former Director, Goldman Sachs, Paris
Gianluigi Ricuperati, Writer and Essayist, La Repubblica
Scarlett Rouge, Artist
J Craig Venter, Genomics Researcher; Synthetic Genomics, Inc.; J. Craig Venter Institute; Author, A Life Decoded
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EDGE CONVERSATION THE ADOLESCENT BRAIN Royal Society University Research Fellow and Full Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London The idea that the brain is somehow fixed in early childhood, which was an idea that was very strongly believed up until fairly recently, is completely wrong. There's no evidence that the brain is somehow set and can't change after early childhood. In fact, it goes through this very large development throughout adolescence and right into the 20s and 30s, and even after that it's plastic forever, the plasticity is a baseline state, no matter how old you are. That has implications for things like intervention programs and educational programs for teenagers. |
EDGE CONVERSATION SCIENCE IS NOT ABOUT CERTAINTY: A PHILOSOPHY OF PHYSICS Theoretical Physicist; University of the Mediterraneum, Marseille; Author, Quantum Gravity I seem to be saying two things that contradict each other. On the one hand, we trust scientific knowledge, on the other hand, we are always ready to modify in-depth part of our conceptual structure about the world. But there is no contradiction, because the idea of a contradiction comes from what I see as the deepest misunderstanding about science: the idea that science is about certainty. |
EDGE CONVERSATION ESSENTIALISM Director of the Bristol Cognitive Development Centre in the Experimental Psychology Department at the University of Bristol; Author, The Self-Illusion The self is something that is central to a lot of psychological questions and, in fact, a lot of psychologists have difficulty describing their work without positing the notion of a self. It's such a common daily, profound, indivisible experience for most of us. Some people do manage to achieve states of divided self or anatta, no self, they're really skilled Buddhists. But for the majority of us the self is a very compulsive experience. I happen to think it's an illusion and certainly the neuroscience seems to support that contention. Simply from the logical positions that it's very difficult to, without avoiding some degree of infinite regress, to say a starting point, the trail of thought, just the fractionation of the mind, when we see this happening in neurological conditions. The famous split-brain studies showing that actually we're not integrated entities inside our head, rather we're the output of a multitude of unconscious processes. |
EDGE CONVERSATION TESTOSTERONE ON MY MIND AND IN MY BRAIN Psychologist, Autism Research Centre, Cambridge University; Author, The Science of Evil This is a hormone that has fascinated me. It's a small molecule that seems to be doing remarkable things. The variation we see in this hormone comes from a number of different sources. One of those sources is genes; many different genes can influence how much testosterone each of us produces, and I just wanted to share with you my fascination with this hormone, because it's helping us take the science of sex differences one step further, to try to understand not whether there are sex differences, but what are the roots of those sex differences? Where are they springing from? And along the way we're also hoping that this is going to teach us something about those neuro-developmental conditions like autism, like delayed language development, which seem to disproportionately affect boys more than girls, and potentially help us understand the causes of those conditions. Q & A |
EDGE CONVERSATION A UNIVERSE OF SELF-REPLICATING CODE Science Historian; Author, Turing's Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe; Darwin Among the Machines What we're missing now, on another level, is not just biology, but cosmology. People treat the digital universe as some sort of metaphor, just a cute word for all these products. The universe of Apple, the universe of Google, the universe of Facebook, that these collectively constitute the digital universe, and we can only see it in human terms and what does this do for us? We're missing a tremendous opportunity. We're asleep at the switch because it's not a metaphor. In 1945 we actually did create a new universe. This is a universe of numbers with a life of their own, that we only see in terms of what those numbers can do for us. Can they record this interview? Can they play our music? Can they order our books on Amazon? If you cross the mirror in the other direction, there really is a universe of self-reproducing digital code. When I last checked, it was growing by five trillion bits per second. And that's not just a metaphor for something else. It actually is. It's a physical reality. |
EDGE CONVERSATION ADVENTURES IN BEHAVIORAL NEUROLOGY—OR—WHAT NEUROLOGY CAN TELL US ABOUT HUMAN NATURE Neuroscientist; Professor & Director, Center for Brain and Cognition, UC, San Diego; Author, The Tell-Tale Brain So here is something staring you in the face, anextraordinary syndrome, utterly mysterious, where a person wants his normal limb removed. Why does this happen? There are all kinds of crazy theories about it including Freudian theories. One theory asserts, for example, that it's an attention seeking behavior. This chap wants attention so he asks you to remove his arm. It doesn't make any sense.Why does he not want his nose removed or ear removed or something less drastic? Why an arm. |
EDGE CONVERSATION INFINITE STUPIDITY Professor of Evolutionary Biology, Reading University, England and The Santa Fe Institute; Author, Wired for Culture A tiny number of ideas can go a long way, as we've seen. And the Internet makes that more and more likely. What's happening is that we might, in fact, be at a time in our history where we're being domesticated by these great big societal things, such as Facebook and the Internet. We're being domesticated by them, because fewer and fewer and fewer of us have to be innovators to get by. And so, in the cold calculus of evolution by natural selection, at no greater time in history than ever before, copiers are probably doing better than innovators. |
EDGE CONVERSATION THINKING ABOUT THE UNIVERSE ON THE LARGER SCALES Professor of Theoretical Physics, Berkeley Andrei Linde had some ideas, Alan Guth had some ideas, Alex Vilenkin had some ideas. I thought I was coming in with this radically new idea that we shouldn't think of the universe as existing on this global scale that no one observer can actually see, that it's actually important to think about what can happen in the causally connected region to one observer, what can you do in any experiment that doesn't actually conflict with the laws of physics, and require superluminal propagation, that we have to ask questions in a way that conform to the laws of physics if we want to get sensible answers. |
ENO: Artist; Composer; Recording Producer: U2, Coldplay, Talking Heads, Paul Simon; Recording Artist, Small Craft on a Milk Sea
JACQUET: Postdoctoral Researcher, Fisheries Centre/Department of Mathematics, University of British Columbia, researching cooperation and the tragedy of the commons
ENO: Usually one is asked to do music for films but this is for a totem pole. JACQUET: Throughout the 19th century, native tribes that spanned the north coast of North America erected shame totem poles to signal to the community that certain individuals or groups had transgressed. |
EDGE ON THE ROAD EDGE @ SCIFOO WILCZEK Physicist, MIT; Recipient, 2004 Nobel Prize in Physics; Author, The Lightness of Being HANNAY Managing Director, Digital Science, Macmillan Publishers Ltd.;Former Publisher, Nature.com; Co-Organizer, Sci Foo Ask the question you are asking yourself. You have one minute.—JB |
EDGE CONVERSATION THE LOCAL-GLOBAL FLIP, OR, "THE LANIER EFFECT" Computer scientist; musician; author, You Are Not A Gadget If you aspire to use computer network power to become a global force through shaping the world instead of acting as a local player in an unfathomably large environment, when you make that global flip, you can no longer play the game of advantaging the design of the world to yourself and expect it to be sustainable. The great difficulty of becoming powerful and getting close to a computer network is: Can people learn to forego the temptations, the heroin-like rewards of being able to reform the world to your own advantage in order to instead make something sustainable? |
EDGE CONVERSATION ON THE SCIENCE OF COOKING CEO and Managing Director, Intellectual Ventures; Co-Author (with Bill Gates), The Road Ahead; Author, Modernist Cuisine Cooking also obeys the laws of physics, in particular chemistry. Yet it is quite possible to cook without understanding it. You can cook better if you do understand what is going on, particularly if you want to deviate from the ways that people have cooked before. If you want to follow a recipe exactly, slavishly, what the hell, you can do it without understanding it. As a rote automaton, you can say, "yes, I mixed this, I cook at this temperature" and so forth. But if you want to do something really different, if you want to go color outside the lines, if you want to go outside of the recipe, it helps if you have some intuition as to how things work. |
EDGE MASTER CLASS THE MARVELS AND THE FLOWS OF INTUITIVE THINKING Eugene Higgins Emeritus Professor of Psychology; Nobel Laureate; Author, Thinking Fast and Slow The power of settings, the power of priming, and the power of unconscious thinking, all of those are a major change in psychology. I can't think of a bigger change in my lifetime. You were asking what's exciting? That's exciting, to me. |
EDGE MASTER CLASS THE EVOLUTION OF COOPERATION Professor of Biology and Mathematics, Harvard University; coathor, SuperCooperators Why has cooperation, not competition, always been the key to the evolution of complexity? |
EDGE MASTER CLASS A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE Johnstone Family Professor, Department of Psychology; Harvard University; Author, The Better Angles of Our Nature What may be the most important thing that has ever happened in human history is that violence has gone down, by dramatic degrees, and in many dimensions all over the world and in many spheres of behavior: genocide, war, human sacrifice, torture, slavery, and the treatment of racial minorities, women, children, and animals. |
EDGE MATSER CLASS THE ARCHITECTURE OF MOTIVATION Professor of Psychology at UCSB Recent research concerning the welfare of others, etc. affects not only how to think about certain emotions, but also overturns how most models of reciprocity and exchange, with implications about how people think about modern markets, political systems, and societies. What are these new approaches to human motivation? |
EDGE MASTER CLASS NEUROSCIENCE AND JUSTICE Neuroscientist, UC Santa Barbara; Author, Who's In Charge Asking the fundamental question of modern life. In an enlightened world of scientific understandings of first causes, we must ask: are we free, morally responsible agents or are we just along for the ride? |
EDGE CONVERSATION INSIGHT Cognitive Psychologist; Author, Sources of Power; Streetlights and Shadows: Searching for Keys to Adaptive Decision Making Judgments based on intuition seem mysterious because intuition doesn't involve explicit knowledge. It doesn't involve declarative knowledge about facts. Therefore, we can't explicitly trace the origins of our intuitive judgments. They come from other parts of our knowing. They come from our tacit knowledge and so they feel magical. Intuitions sometimes feel like we have ESP, but it isn't magical, it's really a consequence of the experience we've built up. |
EDGE CONVERSATION WHY CITIES KEEP GROWING, CORPORATIONS AND PEOPLE ALWAYS DIE, AND LIFE GETS FASTER Distinguished Professor and Past President, Santa Fe Institute The question is, as a scientist, can we take these ideas and do what we did in biology, at least based on networks and other ideas, and put this into a quantitative, mathematizable, predictive theory, so that we can understand the birth and death of companies, how that stimulates the economy? |
EDGE CONVERSATION THE SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGICAL NARRATIVE—OR—WHAT IS SOCIAL OSYCHOLOGY, ANYWAY? Sherrell J. Aston Professor of Psychology at the University of Virginia; Co-author, Social Psychology; Author, Strangers to Ourselves; Redirect One of the basic assumptions of the field is that it's not the objective environment that influences people, but their constructs of the world. You have to get inside people's heads and see the world the way they do. You have to look at the kinds of narratives and stories people tell themselves as to why they're doing what they're doing. What can get people into trouble sometimes in their personal lives, or for more societal problems, is that these stories go wrong. People end up with narratives that are dysfunctional in some way. |
EDGE CONVERSATION THE ARGUMENTATIVE THEORY Postdoc in Philosophy, Politics and Economics program at the University of Pennsylvania |
EDGE CONVERSATION WHO IS THE GREATEST BIOLOGIST OF ALL TIME? Professor of Evolutionary Developmental Biology, Imperial College; Author, Mutants "Okay, but who is the real top dog? For me, the answer is absolutely clear. It's Aristotle. And it's a surprising answer because even though I suppose some biologists might know, should they happen to remember their first year textbooks, that Aristotle was the Father of Biology, they would still say, "well, yes, but he got everything wrong." And that, I think, is a canard. The thing about Aristotle - and this is why I love him - is that his thought was is so systematic, so penetrating, so vast, so strange—and yet he's undeniably a scientist." |
EDGE CONVERSATION A SENSE OF CLEANLINESS Director, Cambridge Embodied Cognition and Emotion Laboratory; University Lecturer, Department of Social and Developmental Psychology Cambridge As far as morality goes, disgust has received a lot of attention, and there has been a lot of work on it. The flip side of it is cleanliness, or being tidy, proper, clean, pure, which has been considered the absence of disgust, or contamination. But there is actually more to being clean, and having things in order. On some level even cleanliness, or the desire to feel clean and pure has a social origin in the sens that primates show social grooming: Monkeys tend to get really close to each other, they pick insects off each other's fur, and it's not just useful in terms of keeping themselves clean, but it has an important social function in terms of bonding them together |
EDGE@DLD: AN EDGE CONVERSATION IN MUNICH BACK TO ANALOG Science Historian; Author, Turing's Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe; Darwin Among the Machines Where is this whole digital world going? And I'm going to risk being thrown out of here by saying... not that digital is over, but that we've already moved into a new phase, that people just are not recognizing yet: back to analog. We're taking that cathode ray tube back the other way. |
EDGE SEMINAR THE NEW SCIENCE OF MORALITY Professor of Social Psychology, University of Virginia; Author, The Righteous Mind I'm all in favor of reductionism, as long as it's paired with emergentism. You've got to be able to go down to the low level, but then also up to the level of institutions and cultural traditions and, all kinds of local factors. A dictum of cultural psychology is that "culture and psyche make each other up." We psychologists are specialists in the psyche. What are the gears turning in the mind? But those gears turn, and they evolved to turn, in various ecological and economic contexts. |
EDGE SEMINAR THE NEW SCENCE OF MORALITY, PART 5 Brooks and Suzanne Ragen Professor of Psychology, Yale University; Author, How Pleasure Works What I want to do today is talk about some ideas I've been exploring concerning the origin of human kindness. And I'll begin with a story that Sarah Hrdy tells at the beginning of her excellent new book, "Mothers And Others." She describes herself flying on an airplane. It's a crowded airplane, and she's flying coach. She's waits in line to get to her seat; later in the flight, food is going around, but she's not the first person to be served; other people are getting their meals ahead of her. And there's a crying baby. The mother's soothing the baby, the person next to them is trying to hide his annoyance, other people are coo-cooing the baby, and so on. As Hrdy points out, this is entirely unexceptional. Billions of people fly each year, and this is how most flights are. But she then imagines what would happen if every individual on the plane was transformed into a chimp. Chaos would reign. By the time the plane landed, there'd be body parts all over the aisles, and the baby would be lucky to make it out alive. The point here is that people are nicer than chimps. |
EDGE SEMINAR THE NEW SCIENCE OF MORALITY, PART 6 Psychologist, Cornell University What I want to talk about is piggybacking off of the end of Paul's talk, where he started to speak a little bit about the debate that we've had in moral psychology and in philosophy, on the role of reason and emotion in moral judgment. I'm going to keep my claim simple, but I want to argue against a view that probably nobody here has, (because we're all very sophisticated), but it's often spoken of emotion and reason as being at odds with each other — in a sense that to the extent that emotion is active, reason is not active, and to the extent that reason is active, emotion is not active. (By emotion here, I mean, broadly speaking, affective influences). I think that this view is mistaken (although it is certainly the case sometimes). The interaction between these two is much more interesting. So I'm going to talk a bit about some studies that we've done. Some of them have been published, and a couple of them haven't (because they're probably too inappropriate to publish anywhere, but not too inappropriate to speak to this audience). They are on the role of emotive forces in shaping our moral judgment. I use the term "emotive," because they are about motivation and how motivation affects the reasoning process when it comes to moral judgment. |
EDGE SEMINAR THE SCIENCE OF MORALITY, PART 7 Neuroscientist; Silver Professor of Psychology and Neural Science at New York University In spite of these beliefs I do think about decisions as reasoned or instinctual when I'm thinking about them for myself. And this has obviously been a very powerful way of thinking about how we do things because it goes back to earliest written thoughts. We have reason, we have emotion, and these two things can compete. And some are unique to humans and others are shared with other species. And economists, when thinking about decisions, have also adopted what we call a dual system approach. This is obviously a different dual system approach and here I'm focusing mostly on Kahneman's System 1 and System 2. As probably everybody in this room knows Kahneman and Tversky showed that there were a number of ways in which we make decisions that didn't seem to be completely consistent with classical economic theory and easy to explain. And they proposed Prospect Theory and suggested that we actually have two systems we use when making decisions, one of which we call reason, one of which we call intuition. Kahneman didn't say emotion. He didn't equate emotion with intuition. |
EDGE MASTER CLASS CLASS 1: LISTENING IN ON THE BODY'S PROTEOMIC CONVERSATION (PART I) Physicist, Computer Scientist, Chairman of Applied Minds, Inc.; author, The Pattern on the Stone Right now, I am asking a lot of questions about cancer, but I probably should explain how I got to that point, why somebody who's mostly interested in complexity, and computers, and designing machines, and engineering, should be interested in cancer. I'll tell you a little bit about cancer, but before I tell you about that, I'm going to tell you about proteomics, and before I tell you about proteomics, I want to get you to think about genomics differently because people have heard a lot about genes, and genomics in the last few years, and it's probably given them a misleading idea about what's important, how diseases work, and so on. |
EDGE MASTER CLASS CLASS 2: LISTENING IN ON THE BODY'S PROTEOMIC CONVERSATION (PART II) Physicist, Computer Scientist, Chairman of Applied Minds, Inc.; author, The Pattern on the Stone What I've been talking about here is more analysis than construction. The genome is used to construct things, and I'm claiming it's not the best place for analysis of what's going on. Certainly there are times it is useful, but I don't think that's where most of the information is. In fact, in some sense, it is literally true that the information that's in proteomics tells you everything that was in the genome, everything useful that was in the genome. In a sense, the genome is redundant if you have the proteomics, that's theoretical though, because the genome is digital, and we actually have it. In many ways it's enabled proteomics. |
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On Sunday, October 16th, Edge, at the invitation of London's leading curator, and long-time collaborator, Hans Ulrich Obrist (HUO), co-director of the Serpentine Gallery, participated in The Serpentine Gallery Garden Marathon, the sixth in the Gallery's acclaimed Marathon series. The Garden Marathon explored the concept of the garden.
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"The event is directly inspired by the Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2011, designed by Peter Zumthor. The encounter of architecture and garden creates a contemplative space that is both set within – and meditatively separated from – the wider surroundings of Kensington Gardens.
"Participations will range from the fields of horticulture, design and architecture to explore the creation of gardens and their spatial, urban and scientific importance, through to works by artists and readings by poets and writers exploring the significance of the garden in our experience of the world."
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Other recent collaborations between Edge and HUO have included "What is your Formula, Your Equation, Your Algorithm: Formulae for the 21st Century" in 2007. "Maps for the 21st Century" in 2010. HUO and I have also had the pleasure of writing about each other. See "Brockman's Taste for Science, or how to entertain the smartest people" by Hans Ulrich Obrist, and "A Rule of the Game: A Talk with Hans Ulrich Obrist on Edge.
INFORMATION GARDENS consisted of talks by Mark Pagel, Jennifer Jacquet, and Brian Eno.
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Mark Pagel, Cities as Gardens
"Up until 10,000 years ago there were no permanent settlements and all human groups lived by hunting and gathering. Then agriculture was discovered and everything changed. Now a small number of people could supply food for the rest and the first cities arose. Every since that time there has been a steady movement of people out of our original arcadia and into cities, such that now over half the world lives in them. But why given that cities have historically been targets of attack and places of crime and where diseases fester and spread? The answer is that cities have acted as gardens of our prosperity, creativity and innovations and their continued existence is vital to fitting the projected 9 billion people onto this planet. Surprisingly, they are the new 'green centres' of the world."
MARK PAGEL is a Fellow of the Royal Society and Professor of Evolutionary Biology; Head of the Evolution Laboratory at the University of Reading; Author Oxford Encyclopaedia of Evolution; co-author of The Comparative Method in Evolutionary Biology. Forthcoming book Wired for Culture: Origins of the Human Social Mind.
Jennifer Jacquet, Shame Totem v.2.0
"Throughout the 19th century, native tribes that spanned the north coast of North America erected shame totem poles to signal to the community that certain individuals or groups had transgressed. This art is resurrected with a modernized, garish, digitally rendered 3-D shame pole to represent the most shameful corporations – chosen with the assistance of 500 people based in the U.S. who surveyed about the corporations that have most negatively affected society. The talk will describe the relationship between gardens and shame, a historical view on shame totems, the specific concept for this work, and details of its creation."
JENNIFER JACQUET is a Postdoctoral Researcher, Fisheries Centre/Department of Mathematics, University of British Columbia; Research interests incude environmental sustainability (particularly fish), the evolution and function of guilt, honor, and shame, and the role of information technology in shaping environmental action.
Brian Eno, Composers as Gardeners
"My topic is the shift from 'architect' to 'gardener', where 'architect' stands for 'someone who carries a full picture of the work before it is made', to 'gardener' standing for 'someone who plants seeds and waits to see exactly what will come up'. I will argue that today's composer are more frequently 'gardeners' than 'architects' and, further, that the 'composer as architect' metaphor was a transitory historical blip."
BRIAN ENO is an Artist; Composer; Recording Producer: U2, Cold Play, Talking Heads, Paul Simon; Recording Artist ( Drums Between the Bells, Small Craft on a Milk Sea, Everything That Happens Will Happen Today, Another Green World).
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In July, Edge held its annual Master Class in Napa, California on the theme: "The Science of Human Nature": Princeton psychologist Daniel Kahneman on the marvels and the flaws of intuitive thinking; Harvard mathematical biologist Martin Nowak on the evolution of cooperation; Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker on the history of violence; UC-Santa Barbara evolutionary psychologist Leda Cosmides on the architecture of motivation; UC-Santa Barbara neuroscientist Michael Gazzaniga on neuroscience and the law; and Princeton religious historian Elaine Pagels on The Book of Revelation. In the coming weeks we will publish the complete video, audio, and texts. For publication schedule and details, see below.
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The power of settings, priming, and unconscious thinking, all are a major change in psychology. I can't think of a bigger change in my lifetime. You were asking what's exciting? That's exciting, to me.
Eugene Higgins Professor of Psychology, Princeton University; Recipient, the 2002 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences; Author, Thinking Fast and Slow (forthcoming, October 25th).
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Why has cooperation, not competition, always been the key to the evolution of complexity?
Mathematical Biologist, Game Theorist; Professor of Biology and Mathematics, Director, Center for Evolutionary Dynamics, Harvard University; Author, SuperCooperators: Altruism, Evolution, and Why We Need Each Other to Succeed
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What may be the most important thing that has ever happened in human history is that violence has gone down, by dramatic degrees, and in many dimensions all over the world and in many spheres of behavior: genocide, war, human sacrifice, torture, slavery, and the treatment of racial minorities, women, children, and animals.
Harvard College Professor and Johnstone Family Professor of Psychology; Harvard University. Author, The Language Instinct, How the Mind Works, and The Better Angels Of Our Nature: How Violence Has Declined (forthcoming, October 4th)
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Recent research concerning the welfare of others, etc. affects not only how to think about certain emotions, but also overturns how most models of reciprocity and exchange, with implications about how people think about modern markets, political systems, and societies. What are these new approaches to human motivation?
Professor of Psychology and Co-director (with John Tooby) of Center for Evolutionary Psychology at the University of California, Santa Barbara
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Asking the fundamental question of modern life. In an enlightened world of scientific understandings of first causes, we must ask: are we free, morally responsible agents or are we just along for the ride?
Neuroscientist; Professor of Psychology & Director, SAGE Center for the Study of Mind, University of California, Santa Barbara; Human: Who's In Charge? (forthcoming, November 15th)
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Why is religion still alive? Why are people still engaged in old folk takes and mythological stories — even those without rational and ethical foundations.
Harrington Spear Paine Professor of Religion, Princeton University; Author The Gnostic Gospels; Beyond Belief; and Revelations: Visions, Prophecy, and Politics in the Book of Revelation (forthcoming, March 6, 2012)
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"Open-minded, free ranging, intellectually playful ... an unadorned pleasure in curiosity, a collective expression of wonder at the living and inanimate world ... an ongoing and thrilling colloquium."— Ian McEwan in The Telegraph
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The Edge Master Class 2011 was held at Villa Miravelle at Spring Mountain Vineyard in St. Helena, California.
"Built 1884 in Saint Helena, CA, by Mexican-American Tiburcio Parrott, the majestic residence dominates the surrounding vineyards and includes spires, wraparound verandas, a conservatory, a grand stone tower, massive front double doors with exquisite stained glass, and a six-story high cupola. Miravalle was designed by architect Albert Schroepfer, who had designed acclaimed structures at Inglenook and Beringer Wineries, and San Fransisco's Orpheum Theatre. ... Tiburcio died within ten years, and Miravalle remained empty for the next seventy. In 1974 Spring Mountain Vineyard and winery were established on the surrounding property."
The Vineyard was bought by Edge member Jacqui (Jacob) Eli Safra in 1992, after which he consolidated several properties into the current 900-acre property, the largest contiguous vineyard in Napa. Safra, a Swiss investor, is a descendant of the Lebanon-Swiss Jewish Safra banking family. In addition to Spring Mountain Vineyards, his other investments include Encyclopædia Britannica and Merriam-Webster. The entire Edge community wishes to thank him for his thoughtfuness and generosity. And we wish to express our appreciation to General Manager George Peterson, and Customer Relationship Director Leah Smith for their help in organizing a memorable weekend.


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TAHOE CITY, Calif. - Recap: The Gatekeeper's Museum's current Ursus Among Us: The American Black Bear in the Tahoe Basin exhibit, presents information about basin black bears around two historical themes: bears as wild animals, and people living with bears, from ancient Washoe times through today.
Exhibit advisors include both authorities and volunteers, all involved with the basin's human-bear scene. CA Department of Fish and Game (DFG), CA State Parks, the Washoe Tribe and the BEAR League came together-despite their occasional differences -to help contribute to this exhibit. All are pleased with the result.
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The Euro-American settlers arriving in the 1800s and later brought new tools, including bear traps and guns, and a different approach to bears. For better or worse, their approach, which favored control over co-existence, changed the basin.
Nowadays the situation has become complicated. The black bear population has increased (more on that next week) and all of them are hungry. Human development in the basin has mushroomed, and is multi-faceted. There are year-round residents, summertime residents, and visitors, and all are having bear encounters. Their expectations and reactions can differ significantly. This has led to strong disagreements and, at times, rancor.
CA DFG, CA State Parks and the BEAR League all have a presence in the exhibit's present-day section. Budget cuts delayed some DFG elements, but we anticipate their addition in coming weeks. Recently we heard from homeowners, primarily summer residents, who are concerned that property damage wrought by bears is not sufficiently covered in the exhibit. We will add this perspective as well. Without it, visitors might not appreciate the severity of what is at stake for both bears and people.
The final element in the Ursus exhibit is, "You Are a Bear Trainer." A collaboration among the museum, DFG, the BEAR League and CA State Parks, this piece was approved by all and offers tips for how to behave in the Tahoe Basin.
The exhibit is an information point, providing natural and cultural historical information as well as touching on present-day activities. Although we don't hesitate to note the presence of black bears is, as DFG says, an indication of a healthy functioning ecosystem and, as ancient residents, their presence here deserves respect, we do not have a position in the debate about black bears. We offer different points of view that are expressed publicly in this debate: each visitor ultimately must make up their own mind.
The Gatekeeper's Museum is located 130 West Lake Blvd. by the "Y" in Tahoe City. Visit www.northtahoemuseums.org or call 530-583-1762 for information.
Final installment next week: What we've gleaned from visitor input
- Marguerite Sprague is the executive director of the North Lake Tahoe Historical Society and has a bachelor's degree in biology with an animal behavior emphasis.


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Tax guy. In house for a company in the oil and gas industry.
Strangely enough, when asked about my job I (almost) never get follow-up questions.
Tax guy. In house for a company in the oil and gas industry.
Strangely enough, when asked about my job I (almost) never get follow-up questions.
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Someone has to foster the stereotype, so I'll confess to being a lawyer. I'm a retired Prosecutor who spent the bulk of my career handling murder and death penalty cases. Spent the last 5 years of the career handling sophisticated white collar crime, political corruption and the Office's sensitive matters. Now I and my partner do consulting and training for lawyers, law enforcement and mental health professionals. But mostly I just ride my bike and try to play these damn fine PRS guitars.
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Favorite part of my job: being in a code editor improving something that sucked before. I wish I could do this all the time.
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Too many pedals, mounted on an Ikea shelf.
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i make lots and lots of websites and web apps
Network Infrastructure until I started my own business in May of 2011. Left my day job January of 2012 to go at it full time. Our focus is putting other businesses in the mobile space but we also make apps and are currently working on a game. It has been good fun. Has afforded me a few PRS to boot.
Sorry about that. I just tried it on Firefox, Chrome, and Safari and it worked fine. Took a second to load on Firefox. Also probably wont work on an iPad or iPhone, it's a flash site.
Try again? (btw the reel needs to be updated with work from this last year, should be added soon)
Doc...Was glad to read this about you..In 1986 I was in the US Army as an NBC NCO... There was a supply closet that one had to have a secret clearance to enter.. No big deal ,no FBI checks.. But I did have to take the MMPI and a battery of other tests.. Well I decided in my warped mind to have some fun. One test was to draw "Stick Figures" of my family, with me included. So I drew my Dad, Mom, and Sister all with happy faces, birds in the air, etc..But when I drew myself next to them, I drew a stick body but for the head, I used the triangle off the dollar bill with the "All Seeing Eye"... I was summarily denied the clearance.. the report said I appeared to be psychotic.. The First Sergeant called me on the carpet, castigated me and told me to go and draw the stick figures right.. I did and passed.......... well at least I could go in the closet and clean gas masks. HA!
Wow, if employment is any indicator, I think it's safe to say that the average IQ of the PRS forum members is well above the norm! I exclude myself from this, I highly doubt I could do several of the jobs listed.
I'm doing a 4 year study on the correlation between massive student debt and why dental care is so expensive. But most people just call it dental school.
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Francis Asbury Tarkenton (The Scrambler)
Position: QB
Height: 6-0 Weight: 190 lbs.
Throws: Right
Born: February 3, 1940 in Richmond, VA
High School: Athens
College: Georgia (school history) (Tarkenton college stats)
Drafted by the Minnesota Vikings in the 3rd round (29th overall) of the 1961 NFL Draft.
Drafted by the Boston Patriots in the 5th round (34th overall) of the 1961 AFL Draft.
Weighted Career AV (100-95-...): 149 (7th overall since 1950)
9-time Pro Bowler & 1-time First-Team All-Pro (fine print)
Inducted into Hall of Fame in 1986, finalist in 1984, 1985
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Matt Vensel is in his first year at the Star Tribune after covering the Ravens for the Baltimore Sun for six years. He is a Pittsburgh native and a Penn State grad. Follow him at @mattvensel.
Mark Craig has covered the NFL for 23 years, and the Vikings since 2003 for the Star Tribune. He is one of 44 Pro Football Hall of Fame selectors. Follow him at @markcraignfl.
Master Tesfatsion is the Star Tribune's digital Vikings writer. He is a 2013 graduate of Arizona State and worked for mlb.com before arriving in Minneapolis. Follow him at @masterstrib.
The Vikings have released their first "unofficial" depth chart, and there are no major changes from the one that we projected yesterday afternoon.
As expected, Matt Cassel is the first-string quarterback, the five-man offensive line from 2012 and 2013 remains intact, top pick Anthony Barr is the starter at strong-side linebacker and Robert Blanton is listed as the starter next to Harrison Smith despite being out with a hamstring injury.
The only thing that qualifies as a major surprise is that Greg Jennings has apparently been cloned.
But there are a few things worth noting on this "unofficial" depth chart. Rookie Jabari Price is listed ahead of veteran cornerbacks Derek Cox and Marcus Sherels. Audie Cole is the second-string middle linebacker and Michael Mauti is listed as a third-stringer at the weak-side linebacker spot. And Matt Asiata is the primary backup to Adrian Peterson for now, not rookie Jerick McKinnon.
These "unofficial" depth charts are on the Vikings' website, but to make it easier for you to find, I tweeted out the offensive depth chart here and the defensive depth chart is right here.
Vikings quarterback Teddy Bridgewater threw his third interception in training camp during Saturday night's practice in a red zone situation. All three turnovers occurred within the last week, while he went through OTAs, minicamp and the start of training camp without an interception.
To some, Bridgewater's interceptions might a sign that he's struggling. To offensive coordinator Norv Turner, he has a different perspective.
"I think he's playing at an awfully high level," Turner said when asked about Bridgewater's interceptions.
Turner said he's placed Bridgewater in situations he won't be faced with in a game to figure out what exactly the rookie can do. Both Bridgewater and Cassel have thrown over 150 passes with three interceptions each, according to Turner. He said each had an interception on a bad read, a wide receiver mistake and a great play defensively.
"There's no full speed rush like a game, but I'm excited about what Teddy's doing," Turner said. "I'm really excited about how Matt's playing. We're not going to win every play. If we had not thrown an interception, you guys would be wanting to know what's wrong with the defense and why aren't we intercepting any balls."
Turner said head coach Mike Zimmer has a plan in place to play Bridgewater with the first team during the preseason. Bridgewater has been mixed in with the first team offense during 11-on-11 periods over the last week in an open competition with Matt Cassel and Christian Ponder for the starting quarterback position. Turner did not mention whether Bridgewater would be involved with the first team offense during the preseason opener against the Raiders on Friday, but he wants to see Bridgewater management skills in his first game.
"He doesn't have to be sensational, he just has to make good decisions," Turner said. "He needs to protect the ball, get our group in and out of the huddle, get in the right play, get in the right protection. That's the biggest thing about managing the game. He's going to make plays. When he had an opportunity out here, he's made plays. He's made big plays throwing the ball up the field, and he's made big plays checking the ball down."
Because most of us can't remember ... what were we talking about?
Here is a reminder from the Vikings about he do's and don'ts for those attending Friday night's preseason opener at TCF Bank Stadium:
Eden Prairie, MN (August 5, 2014) – With the Vikings first preseason game set for this Friday, August 8, the team is reminding fans of the NFL policy that limits the size and type of bags allowed in the stadium on game day.
The league-wide policy, which will be in place for the second straight season at all NFL stadiums, is designed to provide a safer environment for the public and significantly expedite fan entry on game day. The Vikings strongly encourage fans to not bring any type of bags, but fans will be able to carry the following style and size bag, package, or container at stadium plaza areas, stadium gates, or when approaching queue lines of fans awaiting entry into the stadium:
Prohibited items include, but are not limited to: purses larger than a clutch bag, coolers, briefcases, backpacks, fanny packs, cinch bags, luggage of any kind, seat cushions, computer bags and camera bags or any bag larger than the permissible size. For additional information, go to NFL.com/allclear.
Every day On most days, our Vikings reporters walk you through what's happening that day.
--- GM Rick Spielman has made this roster young again.
--- Chris Crocker's arrival is not a good sign for the team's safety depth.
--- The Vikings activated S Andrew Sendejo from the PUP list.
--- Here's our best guess at what Mike Zimmer's depth chart would look like.
Packers haven't picked which game they'll honor Favre in 2015. Some free advice: maybe don't choose the Vikings as opponent
— Michael Silver (@MikeSilver) August 4, 2014
--- Brett Favre is "truly honored" to be heading into the Packers Hall of Fame.
--- Marquess Wilson, the Bears' No. 3 WR, fractured his clavicle in practice.
--- Lions RB Reggie Bush is determined to stay productive.
The Vikings are back to their normal routine, with a 10:30 a.m. walkthrough and a padded practice that starts at 3:30 p.m. Coordinators Norv Turner and George Edwards are scheduled to talk.
As the folks at Football Outsiders pointed out in this recent ESPN piece, at least one team has gone from worst to first in its respective division in each of the past 11 seasons. So what are the odds the Vikings can do it in 2014? Based on their simulations, Football Outsiders says they have a 12.9 percent chance, the third-worst odds among the eight last-place finishers from 2013. Of course, as their projections show, anything is possible. Even the Raiders winning the Super Bowl.
The dog days of training camp have officially arrived here in Mankato.
With head coach Mike Zimmer and the Vikings nearly two weeks into training camp and just four days away from their first preseason game against the Raiders at TCF, you definitely get the sense that the players are ready to start smashing helmets with someone in a jersey of a different color.
That's not to say that today's practice was chippy. We have yet to see anything that could be remotely described as a skirmish or an altercation during Zimmer's first training camp. Honestly, I'm a little bummed out I haven't been able to write the word brouhaha. Well, until now, that is.
But after nine long days in the sun, you can feel that the anticipation for an actual game is building. Zimmer will be challenged to keep his players focused on the now, as monotonous as these summer practices can become once you flip the calendar to August, instead of looking ahead to Friday.
SETTING THE SCENE: At the start of practice, the sky was overcast and a little ominous with a stiff breeze. But the nasty weather held off, and soon the sky was blue. The temperature was in the high 70s. Zimmer had the Vikings practicing in full pads for the sixth time in their past seven practices.
YOUR DAILY QUARTERBACK SMORGASBORD: After throwing a bunch of passes in team drills Saturday night, the quarterbacks weren't asked to throw much in 11-on-11 situations today. Matt Cassel, who worked mostly with the ones, completed eight of his 10 attempts. Teddy Bridgewater completed eight of his nine attempts, including three of four in a stint with the first-team offense. And after he didn't throw a single pass in team drills Saturday night, Christian Ponder got a chance to run a two-minute drill early in practice. He completed four of his seven attempts to third-stringers, but one of the incompletions was a drop and the other two were spikes to stop the clock. That was it for Ponder in 11-on-11 drills, though, as once again Cassel and Bridgewater hogged the huddle.
TEDDY CAN PUNT, TOO: Zimmer doesn't fall into coachspeak as often as his peers, but he does talk a lot about situational football. During about every practice, he prepares his team for some rare and random occurrence. Today, he had quarterbacks practice pooch punts. Bridgewater can apparently punt a little bit, too. He booted both punts high into the sky. The latter of the two had a hang time of about four seconds. Jeff Locke need not worry about his job, but that was impressive.
CROCKER ISN'T EASED IN: The new guy, veteran safety Chris Crocker, wasn't just limited to individual work and the occasional cameo during his first practice with the Vikings. Crocker was part of the safety rotation, usually with the second-team defense. Credit his familiarity with Zimmer and his defensive scheme for that. Crocker has played for Zimmer in each of the past seven seasons, and he said after practice that he wouldn't have come out of semi-retirement for any other coach.
SPEAKING OF SAFETIES: With Crocker on the field and fellow safety Andrew Sendejo activated from the PUP list, the secondary was crowded with eight safeties, though Zimmer did let Harrison Smith take it easy, perhaps to get a better look at the other guys. Zimmer checked out a bunch of different combinations, and everyone from Jamarca Sanford and Kurt Coleman to Crocker and rookie Antone Exum got looks with the ones or twos. This camp competition gets murkier by the day.
TALKING 'BOUT PUNTS: Cornerback Captain Munnerlyn, who returned punts for the Panthers, got a chance to field a few of them today, though the only thing I would take away from that is that his hamstring is healthy enough for him to practice without limitations. No, the Vikings won't need him if they keep Marcus Sherels, who broke a punt return for a long gain down the left sideline at the end of practice. The only one standing in his way was Locke, and I wouldn't have liked his chances.
INJURY REPORT: Rookie left tackle Antonio Richardson left practice after his left leg got rolled up on a run play. Linebacker Brandon Watts (hamstring) and cornerback Josh Robinson (hamstring) returned to practice. Remaining sidelined were safety Robert Blanton (hamstring) and tight ends Chase Ford (foot) and AC Leonard (head). Ford is no longer in a walking boot -- a good sign.


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Mendoza returns to Trop for Game 2 of series
Royals' starter to face Moore, who aims to bounce back
While Royals right-hander Luis Mendoza has pitched at Tropicana Field only once, he sure did enjoy it.
"I like it because it's noisier with the dome," Mendoza said. "You hear it, but when you're pitching you really don't feel the crowd screaming or anything. But the noise makes it better."
Mendoza will get the second start of his career there Friday against the Rays in Game 2 of the four-game set.
"It's different for pitchers like me, sinkerballers," Mendoza said of the Trop.
That's because the ground balls go a lot quicker off the artificial turf that covers the grass area of the infield. While the right-hander understands the challenges of pitching at Tropicana Field, Mendoza does not believe they will faze him.
He will be up against Tampa Bay left-hander Matt Moore, who is hoping to break out of a two-game skid.
After lasting just two innings against the Tigers, Moore's funk carried over against the Orioles in his last start. He allowed nine runs (eight earned) on 12 hits in five innings of work.
Going 8-0 with a 2.18 ERA through the first two months of the season, the left-hander has allowed 14 earned runs on 19 hits in just seven innings over his last two starts.
"I mean 14-plus runs in those two games was pretty brutal; I'm looking to make a lot better pitches when I'm ahead in the count, unlike I did in my last start against Baltimore," Moore said. "It's kind of one of those things where if a couple of those pitches get made, hopefully the damage isn't as bad as it was.
"I looked at all the hits, which usually I don't look at the hits and where I was in those particular counts, but as many baseballs as they were squaring up, it had me eager to go into the video room and see what was going on."
Royals: Pitching staff sets record
In holding the Rays to one run Thursday, the Royals' pitching staff set a franchise record by limiting opponents to three runs or fewer in 12 straight games.
The streak dates back to a 4-1 extra-inning win against the Rangers on June 1.
Kansas City has posted a 9-3 record during the stretch.
Rays: Price does well in simulated game
Tampa Bay came away impressed with David Price's progress from the strained left triceps that put him on the disabled list after he threw a three-inning simulated game Thursday afternoon.
"Velocity on the fastball was way up there, I thought," Rays manager Joe Maddon said. "Slider, cutter, changeup, everything was outstanding. Delivery was good. I thought he looked ready to go."
Facing teammates Ryan Roberts, Sean Rodriguez and Sam Fuld, Price threw 54 pitches in three innings and even took time to sit down between innings as he would during a regular game.
"I felt great," Price said. "It was good to get back out on the mound and face hitters even though it was not a real game; it was my teammates. It's still good to get out there and see somebody standing in the box. It was a good day overall. I felt very strong."
Worth noting
• Triple-A Durham infielder Vince Belnome and Double-A Montgomery left-hander Enny Romero were named Rays Minor League Player and Pitcher of the Month for May.
• Mendoza is 1-1 with a 2.81 ERA on the road this season with four quality starts. In those four outings, opponents are hitting just .231.
Quinn Roberts is a reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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A skyscraper like no other: Taiwan to build 390-meter tower with floating observatory blimps
Dorin Stefan's "Floating Observatories" tower; construction begins in 2012 in Taechung, Taiwan
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It might look like something out of Isaac Asimov's imagination, it might look like it could never stand up, but this bizarre concept building is about to go into construction. "Floating Observatories" is Stefan Dorin's winning entry in the recent Taiwan Tower Conceptual International Competition - and in return for his US$130,000 first prize, now he has to actually build the thing. The new tower, standing more than 300 metres tall with its helium-filled observatory "leaves", will be the crown jewel of Taechung, the third largest city in Taiwan.
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Rays look to keep ascending WC standings
TB lefty Moore set to oppose Minnesota's rookie southpaw Albers
There's been a lot of talk lately about the Rays losing their grip on the second American League Wild Card spot. Yet the Rays could be just one day away from tying the Rangers for the top Wild Card position.
The previously slumping Rays bounced back with their second straight win Friday night, shutting out the Twins, 3-0. That victory and the Rangers' loss to the A's moved Tampa Bay within one game of Texas in the Wild Card standings.
The full-game swing also created a little more breathing room -- still a relative term in this tightly contested playoff race -- from Cleveland (1 1/2 games back), New York (two), Baltimore (2 1/2) and Kansas City (3 1/2).
If there's an ideal time for the Rays to leap ahead, it's this weekend at Target Field, one of their few September respites from series against playoff contenders. They'll face the Twins for the second of three games Saturday night, with southpaw Matt Moore taking on Minnesota lefty Andrew Albers.
While the Rays' bats all but abandoned them during a 4-13 stretch that ended with Sunday's win over the Red Sox, their pitching continues to set the tone. Tampa Bay got an excellent start from Chris Archer on Friday, and Twins manager Ron Gardenhire expects two more from Moore -- who allowed one run on five hits over 6 1/3 innings Sunday against Seattle -- and David Price.
"This is pretty good. These guys can run some good threesomes out there," Gardenhire said. "We saw Detroit do the same thing with their pitching staff. We went through a stretch where we faced some pretty good pitchers, but not all with one team. So this is a pretty good stretch here against three starters from the same team.
"They're a team that can do a lot of different things. They have a lot of versatility with their players, and when it doesn't work, they find players who fill in nicely. But more than anything, it's starting pitching. They've been dominant with that the last few years here. They have a mold, and they keep bringing guys out [of] this mold."
Rays manager Joe Maddon noted that the Twins' record and place in the standings doesn't inherently make them an easy matchup this time of year. Minnesota is trotting out a lot of players Tampa Bay has never seen before. That includes Albers, who pitched seven scoreless innings and struck out five on Sunday against Toronto.
"They're so different. We know a couple of the guys, and what we think about a couple of the guys, but the rest of it's just reading and checking out on video. It's always a bit more uncomfortable facing the unknown," Maddon said. "I know they've not had the year they're looking for, but I have a lot of respect for the organization, for Gardy and the whole group. It's just more difficult, preparation-wise."
Rays: Crain getting closer to return
Reliever Jesse Crain threw a 50-pitch bullpen session Friday afternoon at Target Field. Sidelined by a right shoulder strain since the Rays acquired him on July 29, Crain could face hitters in live batting practice as soon as Monday. If that goes well, Crain could be ready to make his Rays debut as soon as Wednesday.
"It depends on how I feel and how it goes," Crain said. "I can probably tell the most how I feel and if I'm ready or not. I won't know that until I go out there and face those guys. If it goes real well, I could be ready a day or two after that. It just depends on what they want to do."
Maddon said Crain could be a huge difference-maker down the stretch for Tampa Bay, though he won't be inserted into high-leverage situations upon his arrival.
• Wil Myers hit his 15th double of the season Friday night. The rookie outfielder has a hit in six of his last seven games and is batting .348 (8-for-23) during that stretch.
Twins: Deduno set for surgery
Right-hander Samuel Deduno will undergo arthroscopic surgery on his right shoulder Wednesday, Twins general manager Terry Ryan said. The operation will repair Deduno's fraying rotator cuff, essentially a cleanup of his shoulder.
Deduno will rehab his shoulder over the next few months, keeping him out of winter ball this offseason, but will be ready for Spring Training next year.
"It's not a serious surgery, but it's something we think needs to be done," Ryan said.
• Third baseman Trevor Plouffe is hitting .324 (24-for-74) with five doubles, two homers and seven RBIs over his last 19 games since Aug. 24. Plouffe has reached base safely in 15 of those games and has put together multi-hit games in six of his last 11 outings.
Worth noting
• The Rays are 5-0 against the Twins this season and have won 10 straight games against Minnesota, the second-longest winning streak against an opponent in Rays history behind a 12-game winning streak over Baltimore in 2008.
• The Twins are 9-22 this season against the AL East.
Adam Berry is a reporter for MLB.com. Follow him on Twitter at @adamdberry. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.