Max Brockman is a literary agent at Brockman, Inc., which represents Jared Diamond, Nassim Taleb, Richard Dawkins, and Steven Pinker, among others. He also works with the Edge Foundation, Inc., a nonprofit foundation that publishes the Edge newsletter (http://www.edge.org) and is a beacon for scientific research and popularization. A graduate of the University of Pennsylvania in 2002, he lives in New York City.

Max Brockman: Preface. Laurence C. Smith: Will We Decamp for the Northern Rim? Christian Keysers: Mirror Neurons - Are We Ethical by Nature? Nick Bostrom: How to Enhance Human Beings. Sean Carroll: Our Place in an Unnatural Universe. Stephon H. S. Alexander: Just What is Dark Energy? Sarah-Jayne Blakemore: Development of the Social Brain in Adolescence. Jason P. Mitchell: Watching Minds Interact. Matthew D. Lieberman: What Makes Big Ideas Sticky? Joshua D. Greene: Fruit Flies of the Moral Mind. Lera Boroditsky: How Does Our Language Shape the Way We Think? Sam Cooke: Memory Enhancement, Memory Erasure - The Future of Our Past. Deena Skolnick Weisberg: The Vital Importance of Imagination. David M. Eagleman: Brain Time. Vanessa Woods and Brian Hare: Out of Our Minds - How Did Homo Sapiens Come Down from the Trees, and Why Did No One Follow? Nathan Wolfe: The Aliens Among Us. Seirian Sumner: How Did the Social Insects Become Social? Katerina Harvati: Extinction and the Evolution of Humankind. Gavin Schmidt: Why Hasn't Specialization Led to the Balkanization of Science? Acknowledgements.