Smartypants Central.

The Edge Foundation, Inc., (not to be confused with the awesome Anthony Hopkins movie The Edge) was established in 1988 as an outgrowth of a group known as The Reality Club. Its informal membership includes of some of the most interesting minds in the world, and you know what...it's dope.

It's basically the smartest dudes in the world, shooting the shit and laying the samckdown on some psuedo intellectual bullshit.

"In the past few years, the playing field of American intellectual life has shifted, and the traditional intellectual has become increasingly marginalized. A 1950s education in Freud, Marx, and modernism is not a sufficient qualification for a thinking person in the 1990s. Indeed, the traditional American intellectuals are, in a sense, increasingly reactionary, and quite often proudly (and perversely) ignorant of many of the truly significant intellectual accomplishments of our time. Their culture, which dismisses science, is often nonempirical. It uses its own jargon and washes its own laundry. It is chiefly characterized by comment on comments, the swelling spiral of commentary eventually reaching the point where the real world gets lost. "

SCIENCE, is where its at. There is a bunch of good stuff on this site but I would pay special attention to the edge world question, where each year they ask a bunch of scientists a provacative question. This year it was "What's your dangerous idea?" and some of the answers are smart enough to make you dizzy. Check it out at http://www.edge.org/q2006/q06_index.html and become a part of the third culture.