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  • Spotlight: Do Not Touch the Frog

    Strip away the trimmings of a traditional science presentation, add cocktails, and you have WSF Spotlight. Here, ecologist and National Geographic photographer Mark Moffett...
  • The Story of the Living, Breathing Mirror

    Living with the perceptual disorder known as prosopagnosia—the inability to recognize even the faces of people you know—can be difficult. But it can also be awkwardly funny,...
  • Spinning Spider Yarns

    Mark Moffet is an ecologist and wildlife photographer by trade, but he is also naturally gifted in spinning yarns. Here, Moffet shares exceptional stories about...
  • Adventures inside an Acorn

    Mark Moffett is an ecologist and photographer, but he sees his work primarily as the search for stories. There are stories to be found and adventures to be had everywhere around...
  • Let’s Talk about Frogs

    There are roughly 1.75 million identified frog species in the world, and biologists estimate that there are between 5 and 50 million species that are still completely unknown to...
  • Moth: The Randomness of Concentration Camps

    WSF teams up with what The Wall Street Journal calls “New York’s hottest and hippest literary ticket,” The Moth, for an innovative series of unpredictable storytelling....
  • Moth: Since NASA Wouldn’t Send Me

    WSF teams up with what The Wall Street Journal calls “New York’s hottest and hippest literary ticket,” The Moth, for an innovative series of unpredictable storytelling....
  • Moth: Suffering for Science

    WSF teams up with what The Wall Street Journal calls “New York’s hottest and hippest literary ticket,” The Moth, for an innovative series of unpredictable storytelling....

Blog Posts

  • Instant Reaction: Women in Science

    At the Galapagos Art Space under the Manhattan Bridge, with candles and cocktails reflected in dark pools below, five scientists shared what they research, why they do it, and what it means for each of them, personally, to be a woman scientist.

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