Edge Foundation

=Overview of Organizations named Edge Foundation=

There are three organizations named The Edge Foundation:

The Edge Foundation [http://www.edgefoundation.net (www.edgefoundation.net)] has the the mission to promote, support and sustain an elite level of girls ice hockey as a standard for academic and athletic preparedness for female athletes. It is headquartered in Maryland.

The Edge Foundation [http://www.www.edgefoundation.org (www.edgefoundation.org)] is a Seattle-based nonprofit organization that offers supplemental treatment for students with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) across the U.S. The Edge Foundation’s mission is to help every child, adolescent and young adult with ADHD to fully realize their own potential, personal vision and passion through personal coaching.

The Edge Foundation, Inc. [http://www.edge.org (www.edge.org)] is an organization of science and technology intellectuals created in 1988 as an outgrowth of The Reality Club. Its motto is 'to seek out the most complex and sophisticated minds, put them in a room together and have themselves ask each other the questions they are asking themselves.' Currently, its main activity is maintaining the Edge.org website, where it produces a free web publication edited by publisher and businessman John Brockman.

Edge Foundation | ADHD Coaching for High School and College Students

What is ADHD?

ADHD is a genetic foundational mental health disorder that affects every aspect of a young person’s life, particularly academic success. Federal statistics indicate that as many as 10 percent or 8 million young people in the U.S. suffer from ADHD—as many as half of those are undiagnosed and untreated.

How does the Edge Foundation help ADHD sufferers?

Edge Foundation provides professional, individualized coaching that helps combat the effects of ADHD.

Who is the Edge Foundation for?

High school and college students diagnosed with ADHD.

What do personal ADHD coaches do?

Personal ADHD coaches are professionally trained to work on an individual basis with students who have ADHD. Some strategies coaches offer are goal setting, confidence building, organizing, scheduling, focusing, prioritizing and persisting at tasks. See ADHD Coaching for more information. Professional and personal coaching is a highly effective intervention and support mechanism. When combined with other more traditional approaches, including medication and therapy, coaching will help students with ADHD to achieve their full potential in academic, social and other life pursuits.

Edge Foundation, Inc

The Third Culture

The Third Culture is a term used to describe the growing movement towards (re-)integration of literary and scientific thinking. John Brockman published a book of the same name whose themes are continued at the Edge website. Here, scientists and others are invited to contribute their thoughts in a manner readily accessible to non-specialist readers. In doing so, leading thinkers are able to communicate directly with each other and the public without the intervention of middlemen such as journalists and journal editors. Many areas of academic work are incorporated, including genetics, physics, mathematics, psychology, evolutionary biology, philosophy and computing technology. Past and present contributors include: Martin Rees, Craig Venter, V.S. Ramachandran, Paul Bloom, Jesse Bering, Matt Ridley, Marco Iacaboni, Antony Garrett Lisi, Paul Davies, Ernst Poeppel, Richard Dawkins, Daniel C. Dennett, Jared Diamond, Leonard Susskind, Brian Greene, Simon Baron-Cohen, Freeman Dyson, Steven Pinker and Dan Sperber.

Publications

In recent years Edge has posed its members an annual question. In 2005 this was "What do you believe is true even though you cannot prove it?" [http://www.edge.org/q2005/q05_print.html] The responses generated were published as a book under the title "" with an introduction by the novelist Ian McEwan.

In 2006 Edge posed the question, "What is your dangerous idea"? [http://www.edge.org/q2006/q06_index.html] The responses formed the book "What Is Your Dangerous Idea?", which was published with an introduction by Steven Pinker and an afterword by Richard Dawkins.

In 2007 Edge posed the question, "What are you optimistic about? Why?" [http://edge.org/q2007/q07_index.html] .

In 2008 Edge posed the question, "What have you changed your mind about?" [http://edge.org/q2008/q08_index.html] .

References

* John Brockman, "The Third Culture: Beyond the Scientific Revolution", Simon & Schuster: 1995 ISBN 0-684-82344-6
* "", Free Press, UK, 2005 ISBN 0-7432-7592-6
* "", Harper Perennial, 2007 ISBN 0061214957

External links

* [http://www.edge.org/ Edge.org website]
* [http://books.guardian.co.uk/departments/scienceandnature/story/0,,1473458,00.html Profile of John Brockman] @ Guardian Unlimited