World Science Festival Blog

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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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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And yet you don’t feel it. In fact, the Earth itself moves around the Sun at more than 65,000 mph, and Sun revolves around the center of the Milky Way galaxy at nearly 80,000 mph. This all leads to an interesting question: what kind of motion can you feel, at least in principle, and what kind is it simply impossible to feel? If you follow this question all the way to its logical conclusion, (more…)

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.