World Science Festival Blog

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 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)

(more…)

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)

(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)

(more…)

Here is a selection of blog posts about some of Thursday’s World Science Festival events:

• Will the Singularity Make Us Happier?
  (Wired Science on Humanity Now, Humanity Next)
• Poetry Comes from Our Tree-Climbing Ancestors, Neuroscientist Says
  (Wired Science on Illuminating Genius)

(more…)

To read more about the World Science Festival as it happens, we recommend the Festival website’s In the News section. The latest additions: The International Herald Tribune on The Brain and Bourne (Friday, May 30 at MoMa), and Armitage Gone! Dance: The Elegant Universe is “critic’s pick” at New York Magazine.

Check out Brian Greene talking about the World Science Festival on Tuesday’s Colbert Report:

On Tuesday, May 27, at 11:30 PM, Brian Greene will join Stephen Colbert on the Colbert Report (Comedy Central). To whet your appetite, here is Brian’s previous appearance on that show:

On Thursday at 12 PM, you can catch Brian on WNYC’s The Leonard Lopate Show.