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Go and read it daily, to have intellectual food for a few months because each of these reflections is a micro-essay on a specific topic that opens doors to reflection and study in all fields of human knowledge."</strong><br /> —<em>Vozpopuli </em>(Italy)</p> <p class="rteindent1 rteleft"> </p> <p class="rteleft rteindent1"><strong><a href="https://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/naughton-observer12/Guardian_Observer.pdf" target="_blank">"The World's Smartest Website; </a><a href="https://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/naughton-observer12/Guardian_Observer.pdf" target="_blank">a salon for </a><a href="https://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/naughton-observer12/Guardian_Observer.pdf" target="_blank">the world’s finest minds</a>."</strong><br /> —<em>The Guardian</em></p> <div> </div> <!--break--><p class="rtecenter" style=""><strong>THE 2013 <em>EDGE </em>QUESTION . . .</strong></p> <p align="center" class="rtecenter">___________________________________________________________</p> <p><strong>We worry because we are built to anticipate the future. Nothing can stop us from worrying, but science can teach us how to worry better, and when to stop worrying.</strong></p> <p align="center"><strong>WHAT <u>SHOULD</u> WE BE WORRIED ABOUT?</strong></p> <p><strong>Tell us something that worries you (for scientific reasons), but doesn't seem to be on the popular radar yet—and why it should be. Or tell us something that you have stopped worrying about, even if others do, and why it should be taken off the radar. </strong></p> <p class="p1 rtecenter">___________________________________________________________</p> <p class="p1" style=""><img height="39" src="https://www.edge.org/q2011/images/main_inthenews.gif" style="font-size: 12px;" width="350" /></p> <table align="center" border="1" style="width: 617px;"><tbody><tr><td class="rtecenter" style="width: 609px;"><a href="http://edge.org/inthenews/q2013" target="_blank"><img alt="" src="https://www.edge.org/q2013/Newsmosaic.jpg" style="width: 640px; height: 425px;" /></a></td> </tr></tbody></table><p class="p1 rtecenter"><span style="font-size: 12px;">____________________________________________</span></p> <table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td> <div align="center"><a href="https://www.edge.org/contributors/q2013" style="font-size: 12px;" target="_blank"><img alt="" src="https://www.edge.org/q2012/images/contributors.gif" /></a></div> </td> <td> </td> <td> <div align="center"><a href="https://www.edge.org/responses/q2013" target="_blank"><img alt="" src="https://www.edge.org/q2012/images/responses.gif" /></a></div> </td> </tr></tbody></table><div>Geoffrey Miller, Nassim Nicholas Taleb, William McEwan, Helena Cronin, Dan Sperber, Martin Rees, Barbara Strauch, John Tooby, David Gelernter, Brian Eno, Seth Lloyd, W. Daniel Hillis, David M. Buss, David Bodanis, Benjamin Bergen, David Rowan, Nicholas G. Carr, Kevin Kelly, Lisa Randall, Evgeny Morozov, J. Craig Venter, Andrian Kreye, Terry Gilliam, Jennifer Jacquet, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Robert Sapolsky, Kate Jeffery, Lawrence Krauss, Tim O'Reilly, Eduardo Salcedo-Albarán, Bart Kosko, Timo Hannay, Helen Fisher, Michael Norton, Jessica Tracy, Haim Harari, Bruce Sterling, Vernor Vinge, Frank Wilczek, Sam Harris, Lee Smolin, P. Murali Doraiswamy, Marco Iacoboni, Andrew Lih, Eric Weinstein, Richard Foreman, Arianna Huffington, Xeni Jardin, Christine Finn, Scott Sampson, Gino Segre, Joseph LeDoux, Michael Vassar, John Naughton, Steven Strogatz, Bruce Schneier, Kai Krause,Mario Livio, Rolf Dobelli, Randolph Nesse, Gregory Benford, Ursula Martin, David Berreby, Bruce Parker, Paul Saffo, Bruce Hood, Giulio Boccaletti, Stuart A. Kaufman, Sarah-Jayne Blakemore, William Poundstone, Victoria Stodden, Marcel Kinsbourne, Douglas T. Kenrick, Gavin Schmidt, Sherry Turkle, Stuart Firestein, Ed Regis, Daniel Haun, Joel Gold, Alison Gopnik, Seirian Sumner, Keith Devlin, Susan Blackmore, Larry Sanger, Gary Klein, Dave Winer, Rob Kurzban, Melanie Swan, Timothy Taylor, Amanda Gefter, Anton Zeilinger, Donald D. Hoffman, Leo M. Chalupa, Noga Arikha, Brian Knutson, Kirsten Bomblies, Tor Nørretranders, Jonathan Gottschall, Esther Dyson, Peter Schwartz, Anthony Garrett Lisi, Simon Baron-Cohen, Daniel L. Everett, Nicholas A. Christakis, Stephon Alexander, Margaret Levi, Stephen Kosslyn & Robin Rosenberg, David Dalrymple, Andy Clark, Seth Shostak, Azra Raza, M.D., David Pizarro, Tania Lombrozo, Adam Alter, Thomas Metzinger, Matt Ridley, Paul Kedrosky, Mihalyi Csikszentmihalyi, Virginia Heffernan, Luca De Biase, Terrence J. Sejnowski, Steve Giddings, Karl Sabbagh, Dylan Evans, Laurence C. Smith, Neil Gershenfeld, Eric J. Topol, Stanislas Dehaene, Satyajit Das, Carlo Rovelli, James J. O'Donnell, Robert Provine, Rodney A. 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Dennett</div> <div class="rtecenter" style=""><span style="text-align: center;">___________________________________________________________</span></div> <div> </div> <div><em>Thanks to <strong><a href="http://edge.org/memberbio/george_dyson" target="_blank">George Dyson</a> </strong>for suggesting this year's </em>Edge <em>Question and to <strong><a href="http://edge.org/memberbio/stewart_brand" target="_blank">Stewart Brand</a></strong>, <strong><a href="http://edge.org/memberbio/kevin_kelly">Kevin Kelly</a></strong><a href="http://edge.org/memberbio/kevin_kelly" target="_blank">,</a> <strong><a href="http://edge.org/memberbio/steven_pinker" target="_blank">Steven Pinker</a></strong>, and <strong><a href="http://edge.org/memberbio/nicholas_humphrey" target="_blank">Nicholas Humphrey</a></strong> for their continued support.</em></div> <p class="p1 rtecenter" style=""><span style="font-size: 12px;">___________________________________________________________</span></p> <div 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