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2009

• My Fox 9 (July 11, 2009): Hackers' Next Target - Your Brain?
• New York Times: Tierney Lab (July 9, 2009): And Science For All
• Ars Technica (June 26, 2009): Exploring a Universe Where Nothing Isn't Empty
• ABC News Now (June 24, 2009): Ed Wilson -- Gentle Scientist and Rock Star?
• Victoria Times Colonist (June 21, 2009): Science Intruding on Your Thoughts
• Wired (June 20, 2009): New York City Gets Its Geek on at the World Science Festival
• Ars Technica (June 19, 2009): Manufacturing universes in a fractal multiverse
• New York Times: Tierney Lab (June 19, 2009): Is Free Will Free?
• Popular Mechanics (June 18, 2009): Scientists and Artists Explore Visualization at World Science Festival
• The Scientist (June 18, 2009): The Science of Storytelling
• 1.000.000 Miles & Counting (June 17, 2009): The Human Spark
• Real Science (June 17,2009): Science Smorgasbord at World Science Festival
• Climate Answers (June 16, 2009): A New Look at Nuclear
• Discover (June 16, 2009): Battlestar Galactica at the World Science Festival: The Real Cyborgs Are Coming
• Discover (June 16, 2009): World Science Festivities
• Discover (June 15, 2009): The Psychology of Time
• Discover (June 15, 2009): The Science of Eliminating Gridlock
• Discover (June 15, 2009): What Are the Coolest Jobs in Science, and How Do You Get Them?
• Nature: In The Field (June 15, 2009): World Science Festival: %#&$ Traffic!
• Nature Network (June 15, 2009): World Science Festival: Cool Jobs
• New York Daily Photo (June 15, 2009): Math Midway
• New York Times: City Room (June 15, 2009): The Math Midway Takes Shape. Go Figure.
• Thirteen: Sunday Arts (June 15, 2009): Performance Stage = Science Lab
• Discover (June 14, 2009): Creating Wall-E's World, Minus the Endless Waste
• Discover (June 14, 2009): The Engima of Altruism Evolves With Laughter
• New York Times: Tierney Lab (June 14, 2009): Science Street Fair and Dancing
• New York Post (June 13, 2009): What's Up?: Formula for Fun
• New York Times: Tierney Lab (June 13, 2009): M*A*S*H* Penance at Science Festival
• Gothamist (June 12, 2009): Brian Greene, Physicist & World Science Festival Co-Founder
• New York Times (June 12, 2009): Music and Science, Reunited in a Swarm of Ants
• New York Times (June 12, 2009): Science, the Extravaganza
• New York Times: Tierney Lab (June 12, 2009): The Physics of Nothing
• New York Times: Tierney Lab (June 12, 2009): Science Festival Dispatches
• Popular Mechanics (June 12, 2009): Climate Change Solutions: Live from World Science Festival 2009
• Popular Science (June 12, 2009): Mind-Reading Tech May Not Be Far Off
• The Scientist (June 12, 2009): Watching Wisdom
• WABC Eyewitness News (June 12, 2009): World Science Festival in NYC
• Wall Street Journal: Speak Easy (June 12, 2009): Chuck Close Gets Perceptional
• Chicago Tribune: Features Blog (June 11, 2009): News on San Diego Comic-Con panels, 'Heroes' and a 'Battlestar' Event
• Discover (June 11, 2009): Cue the Music and Bad Jokes: The World Science Festival Opening Gala
• Epoch Times (June 11, 2009): World Science Festival Underway in New York
• Fox and Friends (June 11, 2009): Actor, Director and Author Alan Alda Bringing Science Out of the Lab
• Good Morning America (June 11, 2009): Cockatoo Boogies his Way into Science
• New York Times: The Urban Eye (June 11, 2009): Scientific New Yorkers
• The Stimulist (June 11, 2009): Big Brains Meet Big Apple
• TED: Ideas Worth Spreading (June 11, 2009): Science and art, long-lost lovers, reunite for opening night of the World Science Festival
• Time Out New York: Kids (June 11, 2009): World Science Festival
• Templeton Bookspark (June 11, 2009): World Science Festival Kicks Off
• Variety (June 11, 2009): World Science fest kicks off
• WNYC - The Brian Lehrer Show (June 11, 2009): Traffic Jam
• ABC News Now (June 10, 2009):World Science Festival Rocks New York
• Bloomberg (June 10, 2009): Ant King E.O. Wilson Feted by Philip Glass, Yo-Yo Ma at Gala
• Earth Times (June 10, 2009): Life Technologies Foundation Sponsors BioBlitz Educational Programs in New York City
• Flavor Wire (June 10, 2009): Exclusive: Former NYCB Principal Damian Woetzel Turns to Science
• New York Times: Paper Cuts Blog (June 10, 2009):  Weird Science
• Huffington Post (June 10, 2009):  Science and the Arts to Meet Up Tonight in New York
• NYCGo.com (June 10, 2009): World Science Festival Returns to New York
• New York Magazine (June 10, 2009):  Alan Alda on His Career in Science
• Popular Science (June 10, 2009):  Exploring the Future of Science at the World Science Festival
• Science Channel (June 10, 2009): Brink News: Multiple Universes with Brian Greene
• WCBS 880 (June 10, 2009): Photo Gallery: 2009 World Science Festival Opens
• Wired (June 10, 2009): The Importance of Science According to Scientist and Celebrity
• New York Daily News (June 9, 2009): New Yorker Glen Whitney Quits Hedge Fund Job to Create Math Museum
• Huffington Post (June 9, 2009): The Bronx: Making News Again... This Time in Science Education with GreenFab
• Examiner (June 9, 2009): World Science Festival Expected to Bring Out the Stars
• SciFi Wire (June 9, 2009): Battlestar's Mary McDonnell and Michael Hogan to Talk Cybernetics at Science Festival
• The New Yorker (June 8, 2009): Above & Beyond: World Science Festival
• Wired: Underwire (June 8, 2009): DJ Spooky, Physicist Brian Greene Soundtrack the Multiverse
• Market Wire (June 8, 2009): Kids to Power Park at Science Fest
• Real Science (June 8, 2009): Science For All
• 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
• TED: Ideas Worth Spreading (June 5, 2009): The World Science Festival is next week in New York City
• Time Out New York (June 4-10, 2009): Own This City: The World Science Festival
• Nature (June 4, 2009): Q & A: Acting the Part
• Scientific American (June 4, 2009):  Brian Greene Wants to Turn Your Children Into Scientists
• 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
• MSNBC Cosmic Log (June 2, 2009): Watching science on the Web
• Scientific American (June 2, 2009): African-American actress Anna Deavere Smith to portray James Watson at World Science Festival
• Broadway World (June 1, 2009): World Science Festival Sets Line-up, Brings Artists & Performers to NYC
• The Loom (June 1, 2009): My Tendrils Extend Deeper Into Next Week’s World Science Festival
• The Templeton Report (May 28, 2009): Myth-Busting, from Galileo to Heisenberg
• New York Post (May 27, 2009): The Starr Report: Battlestar Galactica at World Science Festival
• The Mannahatta Project (May 26, 2009): Mannahatta at World Science Festival
• NYU Office of Public Affairs (May 24, 2009): Second Annual World Science Festival Comes to NYU and NYC, June 10-14
• WABC Eyewitness News (May 22, 2009): 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
• Theater Mania (May 7, 2009):  Alan Alda, Glenn Close, Harrison Ford, and More Set for World Science Festival Gala
• New York Social Diary (May 5, 2009): 2nd Annual World Science Festival Gala
• RENeW: A Female Professor Speaks (April 14, 2009):  World Science Festival 2009: Anna Nagurney To Speak
• Jaunted (March 12, 2009):  New York City Festival to 'Blind Us With Science'

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 1, 2008): A Faulty Eye Witness: Hallucinations
• Good Morning America (June 1, 2008): World Science Festival: Science rocks
• Good Morning America (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 (May 30, 2008): World Science Festival hits NYC
• Newsday (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: Ideas Worth Spreading (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 3, 2008): Coming to New York, A Science Event for the Masses: the World Science Festival
  
• USA Today (April 3, 2008): First World Science Festival
• Ars Technica (April 3, 2008): NYC to Host the World Science Festival in May
• SciAm Community Blog (April 3 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)