World Science Festival Blog

Here’s another interview with Brian about the Festival, this time on TreeHugger.

Check out this interview with Festival co-founders Brian Greene and Tracy Day on New York Magazine’s Daily Intel blog! P.S.: We are reliably informed that there will be some balloons at the World Science Festival’s Street Fair.  And liquid nitrogen.

In an article that has just appeared on the ABC News website, World Science Festival co-founder and string theorist, Brian Greene, and advisory board member and theoretical physicist, Michio Kaku, argue there is a science renaissance in the making:

Indeed, Greene contends that now more than ever, there’s a need to keep science in the forefront. From stem cells to space travel, from global climate change to urban agriculture and the personalization of health care, “it’s just an endless list of things that we need to address or deal with or make use of that all have science at their core,” he said.

The article goes on to say that (more…)

Alan Alda has a featured blog post in today’s Huffington Post entitled, What is Beauty, Anyway? Alda, who is a member of the World Science Festival Board of Directors and Advisory Board, explores how beauty can be approached from both artistic and scientific viewpoints, and argues passionately that the two are not mutually exclusive:

“I didn’t always understand this. When I was in high school, I fell under the spell of that crazy idea that if you’re interested in the arts you can’t be interested in science. (more…)

The World Science Festival has partnered with WNYC Radio to present You and Your Irrational Brain: An Evening of Experimentation Under the Stars. In this special live Radio Lab event, co-hosts Jad Abumrad and Robert Krulwich will be joined by science writer Jonah Lehrer and behavioral economist Dan Ariely to investigate how the brain sometimes makes us do crazy things. If you’ve ever wondered why many people think it’s okay to steal a pencil from work, but not money from the petty cash box, or why they splurge on a lavish meal, only to clip a 25 cent coupon for a can of soup later on, this is the program for you!

iTricks, the blog that brings you the latest news and information from the world of magic, has just published a post about Eric DeCamps‘ involvement with the World Science Festival. DeCamps will take part in Brain Tricks, one of the Festival’s Youth & Family events, on Saturday, May 31st, where he will join neuroscientist, Eric Haseltine in a mind-boggling demonstration of magic, brainpower and illusion.