Faith Salie
TV & Radio Personality
Faith Salie is a contributor to CBS News Sunday Morning and a panelist on NPR’s Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me. A veteran of public radio, she co-hosts the podcast RelationShow, which often takes an irreverently scientific look at love, sex, and relationships. She recently hosted The Approval Matrix on Bravo. She’s been called “the [American] thinking man’s crumpet” for her appearances on shows like The Oprah Winfrey Show and The O’Reilly Factor. Probably the only Rhodes scholar who performs stand-up comedy, Faith earned her sci-fi cred getting beamed up as the genetically-engineered savant Sarina Douglas on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and will forever be immortalized on a DS9 trading card.
Past Events
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Man-Made Minds:
Through its dramatic triumph on Jeopardy!, IBM’s WATSON supercomputer recently showed the world that machines are capable of feats we’ve long considered distinctly human. In this program, see it for yourself. We joined WATSON and a world-renowned panel of roboticists and computer scientists, as they demonstrated and explore the rise of man-made minds.
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Another Earth: The Art and Science of Parallel Universes
A special preview screening of the much-anticipated Fox Searchlight film Another Earth—recipient of this year’s Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film and the Special Jury Prize at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival—followed by a post screening discussion that will explore the art and the science of parallel universes.
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Spotlight: Women in Science
Strip away the trimmings of a traditional science presentation, add cocktails, and you have the WSF Spotlight. An intimate, cabaret-style setting provides an unobstructed glimpse into the minds of some science’s most visionary women. It’s a science happy hour featuring cutting edge science and one-of-a-kind talks that promise to entertain, engage, and enlighten.
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Armitage Gone! Dance in the New York Premiere of “Three Theories”
Inspired by Brian Greene’s book, The Elegant Universe, internationally renowned choreographer Karole Armitage translates key concepts in contemporary physics into a thrilling kinetic ride.
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WSF Spotlight 2010
An intimate, cabaret-style setting provides an unobstructed glimpse into the minds of some of the world’s most inspired thinkers.
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The Science of Star Trek
Join Lawrence Krauss, Eric Horvitz, Seth Shostak and moderator Faith Salie, to explore the plausibility of scientific phenomena from the Star Trek universe.
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Avian Einsteins
Join a broad and distinguished panel of biologists, psychologists, neuroscientists, philosophers, musicians and writers, on an exploration of the striking parallels between bird and human brains.
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Battlestar Galactica Cyborgs on the Horizon
Cast members from Battlestar Galactica join leading roboticists to explore scientifically, philosophically, and ethically the approaching new frontier of technology.
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90 is the New 50: The Science of Longevity
Our audience joined leading longevity researchers Robert Butler, David Sinclair and Richard Weindruch, along with embryonic stem cell biologist Renee Reijo Pera, to investigate the facts and implications surrounding scientific developments.
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Ramachandran/Kurzweil Humanity Now/Humanity Next
In this special presentation with the Rubin Museum of Art, neuroscientist V.S. Ramachandran explored the origin of human abilities and whether certain brain structures are unique to humans or whether they evolved from structures originally designed for other functions while inventor and futurist, Ray Kurzweil, examined the human implications if artificial intelligence surpasses our own. The event was moderated by Faith Salie.
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