PR Newswi re Weed &n*tµ Wait Products 8 Services Send .t Become a member Member sign in For journalists For bloggers Global sites Knowledge Center Browse News Releases See more news re:eases .n. ircernei Technology. Comp.,:ei Eiez tonics. Web Site. Education. New Products& Services. Not For Profil World's Smartest Think Tank Gets Substantial Backing from The Jeffrey Epstein VI Foundation f *Tweet ea Share The Edge Foundation Inc. receives significant financial support from science investor, Jeffrey Epstein. 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 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. 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 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 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. The roster at Edge is a treasure trove of over 660 virtuosi, geniuses and masterminds including countless university department heads, authors. PhD's and a host of Nobel Laureates including: physicist Frank Wilczek. chemist Kary Mullis, economist. Daniel Kahneman. theoretical Physicist Gerard r Hooft. theoretical physicist War