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Check out this op-ed by World Science Festival co-founder Brian Greene in the New York Times: The Origins of the Universe: A Crash Course, on the recent commissioning of the world’s most powerful particle accelerator: the Large Hadron Collider. read more

In this week’s Science magazine, physicist and author (and, it turns out, globe-trotting science festival participant) Lawrence Krauss comments on the World Science Festival, the festivals in Genoa, Trieste, and Edinburgh, and science festivals in general. You can find the article here: read more

• Science Festivals: Celebrating Science as Culture

The New York Academy of Science has just put up a podcast featuring the May 30, 2008 World Science Festival event Armitage Gone! Dance: The Elegant Universe, an artistic interpretation of black holes and string theory through the medium of dance. You can also access a slide show on the NYAS podcast homepage (look for the Jun 13, 2008 podcast).

Image: Julietta Cervantes; Dancers: Frances Chiaverini and Megumi Eda of Armitage Gone! Dance read more

Full house: From left to right, biochemist Paul Nurse, cognitive scientist Marvin Minsky, anthropologist Ian Tattersall, embryonic-stem-cell biologist Rosa Reijo Pera, philosopher Daniel Dennett, cancer researcher Harold Varmus, geneticist Francis Collins, physicist Jim Gates, sociologist Nikolas Rose, philosopher Patricia Churchland, neuroscientist/neurologist Antonio Damasio with moderator Charlie Rose in What it Means to Be Human. (Image: Science Festival Foundation) read more