Here is a selection of blog posts about some of Thursday’s World Science Festival events:
The reason there’s no moon diet is that the difference is very, very slight. Too small to measure, really, but readily found by a calculation using no more than high-school math. The inspiring point is that science allows hidden features and layers of reality to be revealed.
At the Festival, a number of programs will highlight breathtaking aspects of reality that science has brought to light, but which you’d never expect based on ordinary perception.
Echoes from the Beginning, featuring leading cosmologists Paul Steinhardt, Lyman Page, and Lawrence Krauss, and moderated by Ira Flatow, will show how, through mathematics and observation, science has peered back to a tiny fraction of a second after the beginning of cosmic history. In Invisible Reality, with Brian Greene, Alan Alda, and Nobel Laureate William Phillips, journey through the strange world of quantum theory. In Looking for the Laws of Life with synthetic biologist Steven Benner, and astrobiologists Paul Davies and Maggie Turnbull, consider the probability of life as we don’t know it. And in Illuminating Genius, join choreographer and dancer Bill T. Jones, actor Michael York, artist Matthew Ritchie and inventor Saul Griffith as they explore the roots of creativity with neuroscientists V.S. Ramachandran, Nancy C. Andreasen, and David Eagleman.
It’s been an exciting two weeks at the World Science Festival. We have already told you (here, here, here, here and here) about new events and new participants, but that’s not all by a long stretch.
Former Director of Coaching for the US Olympic Committee, Tom Crawford (left), joins the team for Science of Sports, at NYU’s Coles Gymnasium, on Saturday May 31. Described as “the most knowledgeable single-source expert in athlete and sports development in the US,” Crawford will lay-out the play-by-play story of how science drives success for world-class athletes.
Tom recently told a gathering of WSF supporters that at the highest levels of competition, winning is mostly about the mind. David Eagleman, (more…)
