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On Thursday, the Festival held a special event in partnership with the Global Nomads Group and the ParnassusWorks Foundation. Students groups from high schools around North America screened the documentary Naturally Obsessed: The Making of a Scientist, an intense, heartfelt and at times humorous portrait of life in a molecular biology lab. Then they came together via videoconference and engaged in an informative and inspiring conversation with the filmmakers—scientist-turned-filmmaker Richard Rifkind and author/educator Carole Rifkind—and one of the featured characters from the film, Rob Townley, who was a grad student in the lab during the period in which it was filmed. read more

The countdown to the 2009 World Science Festival has begun. From climate change to the cosmos; from neuroscience to nanotechnology; from mathematical magic to the multiverse—this year’s Festival will feature some of the world’s leading scientific minds, celebrated artists and innovative thinkers.

Among those who have already committed to join us are: Nobel Prize-winning scientists James Watson, Harold Varmus, David Gross, Frank Wilczek, Sir Paul Nurse and William Phillips; renowned authors Bill McKibben and Irene Pepperberg; esteemed researchers E.O. Wilson, James Hansen, Daniel Wegner, Erich Jarvis, Daniel Levitin and Margaret Livingstone; and acclaimed artists Alan Alda, Marin Alsop, and Anna Deavere Smith.

Please keep visiting worldsciencefestival.com for new announcements about programs, participants and tickets.

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