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.
Here are some visual impressions of Friday’s events:
Giulio Tononi, Doug Liman and James Schamus at The Brain and Bourne. (Image: Getty Images) (more…)
Here are some visual impressions from the first day of the World Science Festival:
Sam Shepard on horses, cacti and a film stunt gone awry at Toil and Trouble… Stories of Experiments Gone Wrong. (Image: Getty Images) (more…)
That’s how Mediabistro’s FisbowlNY characterized the World Science Festival’s opening party Wednesday night at the American Museum of Natural History. Here are some images:
The whale (top) and the guests (below).
The evening’s surprise guest: (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…)
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…)
It has just been announced that New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg is going to open the World Science Festival on Wednesday, May 28, with a key-note address at the Festival’s opening event, the World Science Summit. At the (invitation-only) Summit, more than 125 leaders from science, business, government, media, and academia will discuss the many ways in which science acts as a key player in global affairs.
Check out Alan Alda’s take on the World Science Festival in this excerpt from an interview by Allan Hunkin:
The interview is part of Elegant Solutions with Allan Hunkin, hosted on the Awareness and Action Channel.
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…)
Oscar-nominated actor and Pulitzer-winning playwright Sam Shepard will appear at New York’s renowned storytelling collective, The Moth, in an event titled Toil and Trouble… Stories of Experiments Gone Wrong, as part of the 2008 World Science Festival.
Shepard will join best-selling author Nathan Englander, pioneering particle physicist Jim Gates, journalist Lucy Hawking, and cosmologist Michael Turner. The participants will take to the stage to tell tales of heroic failures, miscalculations, (more…)
