World Science Festival Blog

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…)

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…)