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2009

Good Morning America (June 11, 2009): Cockatoo boogies his way into science
Fox and Friends (June 11, 2009): Actor, director and author Alan Alda bringing science out of the lab
ABC News Now (June 10, 2009): World Science Festival rocks New York
NY Daily News (June 9, 2009): New Yorker Glen Whitney quits hedge fund job to create math museum
Wired: Underwire (June 8, 2009): DJ Spooky, Physicist Brian Greene Soundtrack the Multiverse
NY Daily News (June 7, 2009): What's the big idea? 5 New York inventors show off their stuff
Science Channel (June 5, 2009): Reporter at large Dr. Kiki interviews the biggest names in science
Time Out New York (June 4-10, 2009): Own This City: The World Science Festival
Ars Technica (June 4, 2009): World Science Festival year two: parallel universes and more
WOR News Talk Radio 710 HD (June 3, 2009): Joan Hamburg - June 03 - Hour 1
The Loom (June 1, 2009): My Tendrils Extend Deeper Into Next Week’s World Science Festival
New York Times (May 11, 2009): World Science Festival Tickets on Sale
Playbill (May 8, 2009): World Science Fest Lures Naughton, Alda, Close for June 10 Gala; Smith Solo Show Planned
New York Social Diary (May 5, 2009): 2nd Annual World Science Festival Gala

2008

Science News (October 11, 2008): Let's Get Vertical
New York Times (September 12, 2008): The World Science Festival's Brian Greene on the Large Hadron Collider
New York Post (August 4, 2008): World Science Festival/Dream Job: Brian Greene, NYC's Mr. Science, brings abstract down to Earth
Science (August 1, 2008): Celebrating Science as Culture at the World Science Festival
Nature (June 19, 2008): Insight into Einstein. Q&A with Alan Alda on Dear Albert at the World Science Festival
Crain’s New York Business (June 6, 2008): City’s World Science Festival Attracts Record Numbers
New York Times (June 4, 2008): Revealing the Wonder in the Why at the World Science Festival
New York Times (June 3, 2008): World Science Festival: An Overflowing Five-Day Banquet of Science and Its Meanings
Science News (June 1st, 2008): A Faulty Eye Witness: Hallucinations
Good Morning America (ABC News, June 1, 2008): World Science Festival: Science rocks
Good Morning America (ABC News, June 1, 2008): Alan Alda, Brian Greene on the World Science Festival
New York Times (June 1, 2008): World Science Festival: Put a Little Science in Your Life
Wired Science (June 1, 2008): World Science Festival Coverage: What Does it Mean to be Human?
Science News (May 30, 2008): Son of Furby
Good Morning America (ABC News, May 30, 2008): World Science Festival hits NYC
Newsday.com (May 30, 2008): World Science Festival: Neurologist, NYC Choir explore music's healing power
New York Times (May 30, 2008): The World Science Festival: Oliver Sacks at the MET
Associated Press (May 30, 2008): World Science Festival: Neurologist, NYC Choir Explore Music's Healing Power
New York Times (May 30, 2008): Early Reviews of the World Science Festival
Wired Science (May 30, 2008): World Science Festival Coverage: Poetry Comes from our Tree-Climbing Ancestors, Neurologist Says
New York Daily News (May 30, 2008): World Science Festival: Why Gospel is Good for Your Body and Soul
New York Times (May 30, 2008): Spare Times: For Children – World Science Festival
Wired Science (May 30, 2008): World Science Festival Coverage: Will the Singularity Make Us Happier?
New York Post (May 30, 2008): Science and the City at the World Science Festival
New York Times (May 30, 2008): World Science Festival For Five Days, New York Will Be Science City
MediaBistro (May 30, 2008): World Science Festival Kickoff Party a Whale of a Time
Forbes (May 30, 2008): World Science Summit: Connecting Mind And Machine
NPR (May 30, 2008): A Meeting of the Minds at the World Science Festival
New York Times (May 30, 2008): Boffo Box Office for World Science Festival
NY1 News (May 29, 2008): Bloomberg Considers NYC-D.C. Bullet Train At World Science Festival
The New York Sun (May 29, 2008): Mayor Blames U.S. Policies for Global Shortages at World Science Summit
Washington Post (May 29, 2008): World Science Festival: .S. Experts Bemoan Nation's Loss of Stature in the World of Science
New York Times (May 29, 2008): UrbanEye on the World Science Festival - Impress Your Friends: Science!
WNYC (May 29, 2008): Mayor Defends Smoking Ban at World Science Summit
New York Times (May 29, 2008): World Science Summit: Seven Scientists Win First Kavli Prizes
USA Today (May 28, 2008): On Deadline: Looking Ahead to the World Science Festival
Scientific American (May 28, 2008): SciAm Observations/World Science Summit: First Biennial Kavli Prizewinners Announced
MSNBC (May 28, 2008): Spring Fling with Science: Interview with Brian Greene on the World Science Festival
Gothamist (May 28, 2008): World Science Festival Starts Tomorrow
Ars Technica (May 28, 2008): Oslo/World Science Festival: First Kavli Prize winners in new fields of science announced
Associated Press (May 28, 2008): Oslo/World Science Summit: 7 scientists share $1 million prizes for research
New York Times Books (May 28, 2008): Science Nonfiction at the World Science Festival
Ars Technica (May 28, 2008): NYC Mayor Mike Bloomberg talks science and policy at the World Science Summit
Wired Science (May 28, 2008): World Science Festival Starts Tomorrow
TED Blog (May 28, 2008): The World Science Festival starts tomorrow
Reuters (May 28, 2008): World Science Summit coverage: Seven scientists win first $1 mln Kavli prizes
New York Times (May 28, 2008): Dot Earth from the World Science Summit: ‘The Tragic Lag Between What We Know and What We Do’
Newsweek (May 27, 2008): Quantum Dances: World Science Festival
The New York Observer (May 27, 2008): Friday, May 30th - World Science Festival
Columbia News (May 27, 2008): World Science Festival Opens at Columbia University on May 28
Newsday (May 27, 2008): World Science Festival debuts in Manhattan tomorrow
New York Times (May 27, 2008): TierneyLab: Live From New York . . . It’s the World Science Festival!
CNNMoney (May 27, 2008): Con Edison a Major Sponsor of the World Science Festival
The Colbert Report (May 27, 2008): Brian Greene on the World Science Festival
Science News (May 24, 2008): Science in the City
Science News (May 13, 2008): Like the Nobel, Only Norwegian
New York Times (May 12,2008): Arts, Briefly on Dear Albert at the World Science Festival
NASDAQ (May 5, 2008): World Science Festival Rings NASDAQ Closing Bell
Scientific American (April 25, 2008): A Science Fête Project: A Q&A with Brian Greene on the World Science Festival
New York Times (April 3rd, 2008): Coming to New York, A Science Event for the Masses: the World Science Festival
USA Today (April 3rd, 2008): First World Science Festival
Ars Technica (April 3rd, 2008): NYC to Host the World Science Festival in May
SciAm Community Blog (April 3rd 2008): World Science Festival: science boosterism comes to New York
Businesswire (March 4, 2008): World Science Festival Makes New York City a Grand Stage with Science the Main Act

2007

Reuters (December 7, 2007): Rockefeller Foundation Announces First Award Recipients of NYC Cultural Innovation Fund (including the World Science Festival)