World Science Festival Blog

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.

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:

• Science Festivals: Celebrating Science as Culture

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

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) (more…)

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.

Here are blog entries that describe some of Sunday’s World Science Festival events:

• The Meaning of Life
  (Science Magazine on The Laws of Life)
• To meet a famous scientist
  (Science Magazine human interest related to Beyond Einstein)

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What other blogs have to say about some of Saturday’s World Science Festival events:

• A sociologist among geneticists
  (Science Magazine on Your Biological Biography)
• Oliver Sacks at the MET
  (The New York Times on The Mind’s Eye)

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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, (more…)

Follow the links to the videos (Festival coverage will start after the advertisement):

• Science Rocks (June 1, 2008)
• Alan Alda Starts Science Festival (June 1, 2008)
• World Science Festival hits NYC (May 30, 2008)

If those links don’t work for you, click here and select the videos from the search results.

Here are some blog entries about some of Friday’s World Science Festival events:

• Future Cities — and Festivals?
  (The New York Times’ TierneyLab on Cool Jobs and Future Cities)
• Inspiring Careers
  (Science Magazine on Cool Jobs)

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