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2011 Press
- “We’re the victims of our own tendency to expect that a series that looks satisfyingly random to us”
A primer on probability and chance
Ars Technica (June 8, 2011) - “Watson’s creator gathered with other computer scientists”
Man-Made Machines showcased at the 2011 World Science Festival
Popular Mechanics (June 8, 2011) - “I’ve been thinking about jazz not so much as a destination but as a process”
When the Melody Takes a Detour, the Science Begins
NY Times (June 6, 2011) - ”...a society that decides it will only support applied science and not waste money on pure science is likely to wind up with neither.”
Steven Weinberg calls on Americans to support research
Science (June 6, 2011) - “At New York’s World Science Festival, experts dissected how science can arrest aging, extend human life, and erase traumatic memories”
An in-depth look at some of the 2011 Festival events
The Daily Beast (June 5, 2011) - “Inquiring Minds on Governors Island”
Children of all ages discover the world around them
NY Times (June 5, 2011) - "In Love With Marie"
Alan Alda’s op-ed that discusses his inspiration for "Radiance"
The Huffington Post (May 31, 2011) - "Alan Alda Shares His Passion"
Interview with Alan Alda about "Radiance" and the World Science Festival
Theater Mania (May 31, 2011) - "World Science Festival: Dark Matter, Cryptography and Getting Old"
Information about the World Science Festival and quotes from Brian Greene
WNYC Culture (May 30, 2011) - "This Week in New York: World Science Festival"
"A series of smarty-pants seminars takes the geeky discipline outside of the laboratory. Fill up on facts at six of the best events."
Time Out New York (May 24, 2011) - "World Science Festival: BIORHYTHM: Music and the Body"
Post detailing the "Biorhythm" event
NYC Kids Arts (May 23, 2011) - "World Science Festival: Mysteries of the Mathematical Universe"
Post detailing the "Mysteries of the Mathematical Universe" event
NYC Arts (May 23, 2011) - "Scent events at NYC World Science Festival on 4th and 5th June"
Article details the scent-related events at the Festival
Basenotes (May 21, 2011) - "World Science Festival 2011—Spotlight: Women in Science"
Blog post on the "Spotlight: Women in Science" event
RENeW (May 20, 2011) - "Andrew Dawson, Pat Metheny, Maggie Gyllenhaal, MOMIX, et al. Set for World Science Festival"
Article highlights WSF performances “Radiance” and “Articulate Hand”
TheaterMania (May 19, 2011) - "Maggie Gyllenhaal to Replace Streep in Reading of Play About Marie Curie"
Article featuring Maggie Gyllenhaal’s involment in "Radiance"
NYTimes.com Arts Beat (May 18, 2011) - "Is Space-Time an Elaborate Illusion?"
Article references George Musser’s blog post on the "Hologram" program
Big Think (May 18, 2011) - "Maggie Gyllenhaal to Play Marie Curie at World Science Festival, 6/1"
"Award-winning screen and stage actress Maggie Gyllenhaal steps into the role of history’s most famous woman scientist for a special reading of "Radiance: The Passion of Marie Curie."
TreeHugger.com (May 18, 2011) - "The art of storytelling at the World Science Festival
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Carl Zimmer writes about the Science & Story Events
Discover (May 18, 2011)
2010 Press
- "Standing on the shoulders of science"
Stephen Hawking Honored at NY Science and Arts Gala
USA Today (June 3, 2010) - "A multimedia masterpiece"
Icarus Myth Adapted as Multimedia Masterpiece
ABC News (June 2, 2010) - "The beauty of tiny brains"
A Conversation With Jeremy Niven: Insects as Model Animals
The New York Times (July 13, 2010) - "Why Bonobos don’t kill each other"
A Conversation with Brian Hare and Vanessa Woods: Why Bonobos Don’t Kill Each Other
The New York Times (July 5, 2010) - "Modern cosmology has synthesized Einstein’s theories of relativity"
Brian Greene: Putting emotion back into science
New Scientist (June 16, 2010) - "Something, not nothing"
Father Raymond J. de Souza: Why there is something, not nothing
National Post (June 10, 2010) - "Science will win"
Stephen Hawking: Science Will Win Battle With Religion
Opposing Views (June 9, 2010) - "I’d be surprised if we weren’t surprised"
World Science Festival: Untangling String Theory
Discover Blog (June 9, 2010) - "We’re not that special"
World Science Festival: Surprising Smarts in the Animal Kingdom
Discover Blog (June 8, 2010) - "It’s as if we’re fish who have suddenly discovered we’re in water"
World Science Festival: What if Physicists Don’t Find the Higgs Boson?
Discover Blog (June 8, 2010) - "Chaos ensues"
World Science Festival: Will Scientists Ever Know Everything?
Discover Blog (June 8, 2010) - "More is known about the moon’s surface than the ocean depths"
World’s Oceans Remain Largely Mysterious
Live Science (June 07, 2010) - "Day 4 Recap"
World Science Festival: Day 4 + Recap
Script PhD (June 8, 2010) - "Want to know if time travel or warp speed is possible?"
The Science of ‘Star Trek’: How Close Are We?
ABC News (June 7, 2010) - "From the mysteries of the universe to the definition of God. "
The Conversation: Stephen and Lucy Hawking
ABC News (June 8, 2010) - "Space can be warped to bring two points closer together"
World Science Festival: The Science of Star Trek
Discover Blog (June 7, 2010) - "Gravity waves remain the last piece of his theory of general relativity that no scientist has observed directly"
World Science Festival: Waiting for Einstein’s Gravity Waves
Discover Blog (June 07, 2010) - "The brain is basically a pattern-recognition machine. We are desperate to find patterns"
World Science Festival: Listening to Illusions of Sound
Discover Blog (June 07, 2010) - "Telling Scary Stories of Strangelets "
World Science Festival: Telling Scary Stories of Strangelets
Discover Blog (June 07, 2010) - "Genetic predisposition and neurochemistry should affect how the legal system deals with violent offenders"
Laws Might Change as the Science of Violence Is Explained
Live Science (June 07, 2010) - "There were people dressed up as dinosaurs and robot wars"
The World Science Festival: Highlights and ‘Hi, WTF?’
Village Voice (June 07, 2010) - "Show them the money"
Huge Mirrors, DNA Robots, & Brain Communication Win 2010 Kavli Prizes
Discover Blog (June 04, 2010) - "It all ended in applause"
Good Stories, Well-Told
The Beautiful Brain (June 04, 2010) - "Prosopagnosia, or “Face Blindness,” can be a devastating affliction"
The Country of the Face-Blind
The Beautiful Brain (June 06, 2010) - "Day 3 Recap"
World Science Festival: Day 3
Script PhD (June 06, 2010) - "Neil DeGrasse Tyson Debunks 2012 Armageddon "
Neil DeGrasse Tyson Debunks 2012 Armageddon
Tom Paine’s Ghost (June 07, 2010) - "A trip through the cosmos “at the speed of art”"
Salute of the Stars, Cosmic and Otherwise
The New York Times (June 03, 2010) - "The World Science Festival has landed in New York City"
This Weekend: Charlie Kaufman and a Happy Ending for Icarus
The Wall Street Journal’s Metropolis Blog (June 04, 2010) - "These are buoyant times among alien enthusiasts"
The Hopeful Search for Extraterrestrial Life
The Atlantic (June 04, 2010) - "If you yearn to know whether we’re alone in the universe, it’s a hell of a time to be alive."
World Science Festival: The 4 Ways to Find E.T.
Discover Blog (June 04, 2010) - "A Little Quantum Science to Go Along With the Leotards and Point Shoes "
A Little Quantum Science to Go Along With the Leotards and Point Shoes
The New York Times (June 04, 2010) - "The effectiveness of simple line-based representations "wasn’t invented; it was discovered by artists,""
Why so many artists have lazy eyes, and other things art can teach us about the brain
Scientific American (June 04, 2010) - "Opening Gala + Day 2 Recap"
World Science Festival: Opening Gala + Day 2
Script PhD (June 04, 2010) - "Through music the mind is able to find order among a deluge of sensory information where no obvious order is apparent"
Marvin Minsky and Tod Machover talk music and the mind
Smart Planet (June 04, 2010) - "Are we alone?"
World Science Festival 2010 report: The Search for Life in the Universe
TED Prize (June 04, 2010) - "8 Scientists Share $3 Million in Prizes "
8 Scientists Share $3 Million in Prizes
The New York Times (June 03, 2010) - "Ocean exploration and the effects of the BP oil spill on ocean life"
Ocean Science
WNYC (June 03, 2010) - "Erotic is not a word usually associated with physics"
On Dance: A Physics Lesson From Karole Armitage
The New York Times (June 03, 2010) - "Alan Alda welcomed the audience and emphasized the importance of fusing science with art"
World Science Festival Kicks Off With Tribute to Stephen Hawking
The Wall Street Journal’s Speak Easy Blog (June 03, 2010) - "Hawking will be honored at the opening night gala tonight"
Stephen Hawking Coming to World Science Festival
NBC New York (June 02, 2010) - "Get a load of NASA’s newest star: the James Webb Space Telescope"
NASA’s new toy, the James Webb Space Telescope, reaches for the stars
New York Daily News (June 02, 2010) - "Greene has devoted his career to making the mysteries of science accessible to the non-expert public"
A Scientist’s Quest to Make Us Care About the Cosmos
The Atlantic (June 02, 2010) - "Measuring 80-feet long, 37-feet wide and nearly 40-feet high, the model is a replica of the one being launched in 2014, to observe the most distant objects in the universe"
World Science Festival Kicks Off In NYC
New York 1 (June 01, 2010) - "By looking deep into space, it will collect light and images that have been traveling since nearly the beginning of the universe"
To Take Baby Pictures of the Universe, Click Here
The New York Times (June 01, 2010) - "Next generation space telescope"
NASA’s Next Big Telescope Kicks Off NY Science Fest
Space.com (June 01, 2010) - "A black hole rolls toward New York"
The Cosmos and the Culture Converge at a Science Festival
May 30, 2010 (May 30, 2010) - "We may all be holograms "
At NYC Sci Fest, Asking ‘What If We’re Holograms?’
ABC News (May 29, 2010) - "Alan Alda Explains Joys Of Upcoming World Science Festival "
Alan Alda Explains Joys Of Upcoming World Science Festival
New York 1 (May 26, 2010) - "It will be vaudeville such as never seen before, at least in this galaxy"
World Science Festival to Start With a Big Bang
The New York Times (May 20, 2010) - "The world premiere of Icarus at the Edge of Time"
Philip Glass, Brian Greene and David Henry Hwang’s Icarus at the Edge of Time a Highlight of World Science Festival
Theatremania.com (May 06, 2010)
2009 Press
- “It’s showing that science is different from what you think it is. You can be training and playing with birds, all while learning something about your own brain.’”
Youth and Family events highlighted.
The New York Times (June 12, 2009) - “The cellist Yo-Yo Ma was playing unaccompanied Bach at Alice Tully Hall on Wednesday evening, and all was right with the world.”
Biologist E.O. Wilson’s 80th birthday celebrated at the World Science Festival.
The New York Times (June 12, 2009) - “THE cosmic circus is back in town.”
The World Science Festival enters its second year.
The New York Times (June 11, 2009) - “The science fest promises to melt your mind in more ways than one.”
DJ Spooky, Physicist Brian Greene Soundtrack the Multiverse.
Wired (June 08, 2009) - “Theatre, music, dance and film stars will celebrate the opening night of the 2009 World Science Festival’”
2009 World Science Festival Gala performance previewed.
Playbill (May 08, 2009)
