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…)
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…)
We now have two brief video clips introducing the six New York City high school students who will interview Nobel Laureate in physics, Leon Lederman, and MIT’s groundbreaking robot designer Cynthia Breazeal at the World Science Festival’s Pioneers in Science event. Without further ado: here are the students interviewing Cynthia Breazeal:
Here are the students who will be interviewing (more…)
In selecting the student panel that will interview Nobel Laureate in physics, Leon Lederman, and MIT’s groundbreaking robot designer Cynthia Breazeal at the World Science Festival’s Pioneers in Science event, we talked to a variety of New York City high school students. Here are students from NEST+m, Brooklyn Tech, and the George Westinghouse Robotics Team, sharing their thoughts on: “Science is…”:
The World Science Festival has now officially started. Click on our list of events to see where tickets are still available — many events are already sold out. Here are some visual impressions from the opening and from the World Science Summit that marked the beginning of the Festival.
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s opening address stressed the importance of science for politics. You can read more about it on Andrew Revkin’s blog at nytimes.com (more…)
On Saturday, May 31, neurologist and author Oliver Sacks will join neuroscientist Mark Tramo and the Abyssinian Baptist Church Choir in the World Science Festival Event Music and the Brain, an exploration of the power of music to inspire and uplift, and as an effective tool in the therapeutic process. At the event, the choirs powerful performance will provide a stimulating context for Sacks’ true-life accounts of patients whose lives were altered by music. To continue the dialogue with the event’s participants and audience, Sacks has agreed to answer five questions (more…)
Pioneers in Science leverages an unusual pairing: world-renowned scientists and high school students. In this event, six New York City high school students will take to the stage to interview Nobel Laureate in Physics Leon Lederman and MIT’s groundbreaking robot designer Cynthia Breazeal. Brief biographies for Lederman and Breazeal can be found on the World Science Festival website. Here we introduce our student
interviewers.
Interviewing Leon Lederman will be:
Michael Kaplan (11th grade, Bronx HS of Science)
A physics lover with a knack for making complicated ideas understandable and exciting, Michael is currently doing an independent research project on biomolecular simulation with a professor at CUNY. When he’s not delving into computational physics, he’s playing his guitar or shooting hoops.
Rachel “Roxy” Lachhman (12th grade, Brooklyn Tech)
An aspiring aerospace engineer, Roxy finds science in everything she encounters, and is always hungry for discoveries (more…)
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).
