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Our ‘Deep Reading’ Brain: Its Digital Evolution Poses Questions

‘The reading circuit’s very plasticity is also its Achilles’ heel. It can be fully fashioned over time and fully implemented when we read, or it can be short-circuited …’

Feeling the Heat: The Brain Holds Clues for Journalism

‘This rise in emotional intensity poses a real problem for serious journalists … . The sciences of the mind offer a lot of help if we are willing to learn…

Watching the Human Brain Process Information

‘We measure the amount of brain activity while somebody’s doing something. You can’t generate more activity beyond a certain point. There’s an upper limit.’

Novelty and Testing: When the Brain Learns and Why It Forgets

The orange and yellow regions in the brain’s right hemisphere were more active for a group of individuals when they stopped themselves from making a movement. Image by Eliza Congdon.Russell…

Origins of Edge

RELATED ARTICLE“A Big Question: ‘How Is the Internet Changing the Way You Think?’” – John BrockmanThe Edge project was inspired by the 1971 failed art experiment entitled “The World Question…

A Big Question: ‘How Is the Internet Changing the Way You Think?’

Edge posed this question; discover how a wide range of thinkers responded.
The Impact of Images: First, They Must Be Seen

The Impact of Images: First, They Must Be Seen

Through photographs transformed into comic images and other creative collaborations, the work of a photojournalist is connecting with new audiences in creative ways.

Demotix: Inventing a New Marketplace

Photographers—amateur and professional—send their images to this Web site and split the fee if they are sold for publication.

Music Lessons Inform Photojournalism’s Future

‘The record business died as the digital music business was born. Photojournalism finds itself at a similar juncture now.’

What Crisis?

‘It’s not about finding new ways to do old things, but time to radically rethink our business models by redefining our products, our partners, and our clients.’