Check out this op-ed by World Science Festival co-founder Brian Greene in the New York Times: The Origins of the Universe: A Crash Course, on the recent commissioning of the world’s most powerful particle accelerator: the Large Hadron Collider.
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In this week’s Science magazine, physicist and author (and, it turns out, globe-trotting science festival participant) Lawrence Krauss comments on the World Science Festival, the festivals in Genoa, Trieste, and Edinburgh, and science festivals in general. You can find the article here:
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The New York Academy of Science has just put up a podcast featuring the May 30, 2008 World Science Festival event Armitage Gone! Dance: The Elegant Universe, an artistic interpretation of black holes and string theory through the medium of dance. You can also access a slide show on the NYAS podcast homepage (look for the Jun 13, 2008 podcast).
Image: Julietta Cervantes; Dancers: Frances Chiaverini and Megumi Eda of Armitage Gone! Dance
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Here are a few images from Sunday’s World Science Festival events.
String theory pioneer Leonard Susskind, historian of science Peter Galison, and moderator (and Nobel Laureate in medicine) Paul Nurse in Beyond Einstein: In Search of the Ultimate Explanation. (Image: Getty Images) Read the rest of this entry »
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For those of you who haven’t seen it, here is World Science Festival co-founder Brian Greene’s op-ed in Sunday’s New York Times: Put a Little Science in Your Life.
…and here are some Letters to the Editor prompted by Brian’s op-ed.
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Here are blog entries that describe some of Sunday’s World Science Festival events:
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What other blogs have to say about some of Saturday’s World Science Festival events:
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Full house: From left to right, biochemist Paul Nurse, cognitive scientist Marvin Minsky, anthropologist Ian Tattersall, embryonic-stem-cell biologist Rosa Reijo Pera, philosopher Daniel Dennett, Read the rest of this entry »
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Follow the links to the videos (Festival coverage will start after the advertisement):
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Here are some blog entries about some of Friday’s World Science Festival events:
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