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  • Can Math Be Beautiful?

    What is it about Euclid’s infinite primes that rocks Simon Singh’s world? What makes math different from the rest of the sciences? Listen as he and mathematician Marcus du Sautoy...

  • Digital Physics: The Pioneering Konrad Zuse

    Konrad Zuse, a painter and inventor of the first program-driven computer, saw in his invention parallels with the world around him. In his book, Rechnender Raum (translated as...

  • Beautiful Minds: The Enigma of Genius

    Full 90 Minute Program: Immanuel Kant, who coined the term genius in the 1700s, defined it as the rare capacity to independently understand concepts that would normally have to be...

  • Cool Job: Robot Talent Agent

    What’s it like to build a giant Rube Goldberg machine? How do you book comedy gigs when your only client is a robot? Working in the areas between art and science, social...

  • Genius: Striking Out a New Path

    Genius represents the ability of unprecedented execution and perspective in any given field. It embodies ideas that force the rest of the world to rethink what it thought it knew....

  • BIORYTHM: Opening Reception

    Why does a minor chord sound sad? Is there a formula for the perfect hit? Whistling, dancing, finger-snapping, and toe-tapping—what makes us do it? Find out through a...

  • Strangers in the Mirror

    What’s it like to face a faceless world? Acclaimed neurologist Oliver Sacks once apologized for almost bumping into a large bearded man, only to realize he was speaking to a...

  • Art Is the Beauty of Imagination

    When considering a work of art, perhaps one by Monet or Van Gogh, what is it that stuns you? Why does it move you? Cartoonist Jules Feiffer shares his musings on exactly how the...

  • The Universal Language

    Music as a form of expression exists across all cultural and geographic barriers. It has been called the “universal language,” but is it truly a language that is understood...

  • How Do You Paint the Air?

    Stereopsis is the ability to use both eyes to perceive depth, space, and dimension from flat images. Most of us do this without thinking. But some people with misaligned eyes,...

  • Creating the Illusion of 3D

    Buzz Hays, a pioneer in three-dimensional film, explains how the technology of 3D movies is related to the science of vision, and how this new technology transforms the way...

  • Jules Feiffer Draws

    Jules Feiffer is an award-winning cartoonist, illustrator, author, playwright, and creative intellect. Watch Feiffer sketch the essence of happiness and joy as he effortlessly...

  • A Painting is a Kind of Line

    A simple, two-dimensional line drawing captures the essence of three-dimensional form. With minimal information, a line drawing can convey a lot of meaning. Here, Patrick...

  • Where Does Seeing Happen?

    Do we see with our eyes or with our brain? After light bounces off an object and hits your retinas, how is it then transformed into an image within our thoughts? How do we...

  • Two Minds in One Brain

    Neuroscientist Giulio Tononi discusses the the bizarre phenomenon of “split-brain” patients with filmmaker Charlie Kaufman. More than inspiring interesting cinema and art, real...

  • Spotlight: Things That Are Really There

    Strip away the trimmings of a traditional science presentation, add cocktails, and you have WSF Spotlight. Here, astrophysicist Mario Livio, from the Hubble Space Telescope...

  • Painting and the Scientific Method

    In high school, most of us learned that the scientific method is a rigid, step-by-step process. In practice, successful science is often conducted loosely, nonlinearly, and with...

  • Painting Blind

    Chuck Close on how the curious neurological disorder known as face-blindness affects his artistic process of creating enormous, painstakingly detailed faces. Referencing scenes...

  • Eye Candy: Science, Sight, Art

    Are you drawn to Impressionism? Or more toward 3D computer art? Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Or is it? Contrary to the old adage, there may be universal biological...

  • Chuck, Up Close

    Chuck Close, the great American painter, describes his unique process of making impossibly massive and hyper-realistic portraits and how he uses his body as a tool. Close suffers...

  • Cool Job: The Art Historian

    Cool Jobs: Meet the people with the coolest jobs in the world. The art historian Maurizio Seracini describes how he uses infrared, ultraviolet, and X-radiation to uncover...

  • Remeeting People

    Every time the portraitist Chuck Close sees a person, he must “remeet” him or her. Even after hearing someone’s name he does not remember anything about the person. When working...

  • World Science Festival: Highlight Reel

    The World Science Festival’s signature event is an annual celebration and exploration of science that launched in 2008. Hailed a “new cultural institution,” by the New York...

Blog Posts

  • Coral as Never Seen Before

    We are proud to host the world premiere of Coral: ReKindling Venus, a stunning cinematic experience that awakens viewers to vital questions at the forefront of marine ecology through breathtaking underwater footage.

  • The Smell of Fear

    Yesterday we looked at the power of scent to signal biological changes and influence attraction. But what about other emotions? Can one really smell fear?

  • BIORHYTHM: A Continuous Sonic Experience

    On June 2nd, during the 2011 Festival, New York saw the debut of BIORHYTHM: Music and the Body, a multimedia exhibition presented by Dublin, Ireland's Science Gallery in collaboration with Eyebeam Art and Technology Center.

  • Instant Reaction: The Invisible Language of Smell

    A neuroscientist, a chemical ecologist, a sensory psychologist, and a scent artist revealed the hidden information found in smells and debated the role of pheromones in human behavior, while the audience explored surprising smells using specially treated scent cards.

  • Instant Reaction: The Enigma of Genius

    Genius: What is it and how do geniuses get that way? This diverse panel of scientists and artists discussed the characteristics that define a genius, its relationship with mental illness, sacrifice, and whether modern information overload could degrade creativity.

  • Instant Reaction: Rhythms on the Brain

    One of life's eternal questions was addressed at the Eyebeam Center for Technology, one that each of us has been pondering since birth: What makes The Beatles The Beatles? The World Science Festival brought four music-lovers onstage—a neural scientist, a producer, and two...

  • Can You Smell That?

    BOOM. The smell hit me like a punch in the teeth. Staggering, I tried to make sense of the pungent, salty, almost sweet odor. It was certainly offensive, but also curiously intriguing. What was this?

  • Accessing the Viewer’s Imagination

    When considering a work of art, perhaps one by Monet or Van Gogh, what is it that stuns you? Why does it move you? Cartoonist Jules Feiffer shares his musings on exactly how the artist gains access to the viewer’s imagination.

  • Migrations Between Science and Art

    Jennifer Jacquet joins us from Guilty Planet. Jennifer is a postdoctoral research fellow working with the Sea Around Us Project at the UBC Fisheries Centre. It is nice to see science and art getting along. The World Science Festival's event Eye Candy demonstrates how science...

  • How We Face the World

    Imagine a chair. It has physical attributes: four legs, a seat, some sort of a back. Now imagine a human face. It also has physical attributes: eyes, a nose, a mouth. But, remarkably, the ways we process these features in our brains—and more crucially how we remember them—are...

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