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Listen in on Armitage Gone! Dance

Submitted by Markus on Friday, June 13, 2008

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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! Danceread more

Saturday in Pictures

What it Means to Be Human

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

Science Fun Fact #4

Submitted by Markus on Wednesday, May 28, 2008

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Relax. There may be a parallel universe in which you caught that bus

Relax. There may be a parallel universe...

While parallel universes sound like science fiction, they are in fact a — speculative — part of physics, and that in more than one place: quantum mechanics, our current (and incredibly precise) description of atoms and elementary particles, gives tantalizing hints of an infinity of parallel worlds. And string theory, one of the candidate theories for a unified description of physics, suggests an other kind of “landscape” of parallel universes, some that are similar to ours, and others that are mind-bogglingly different.read more

Sam Shepard to appear in "Toil and Trouble"

Submitted by Markus on Wednesday, May 21, 2008

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Oscar-nominated actor and Pulitzer-winning playwright Sam Shepard will appear at New York's renowned storytelling collective, The Moth, in an event titled Toil and Trouble... Stories of Experiments Gone Wrong, as part of the 2008 World Science Festival.

Shepard will join best-selling author Nathan Englander, pioneering particle physicist Jim Gates, journalist Lucy Hawking, and cosmologist Michael Turner. The participants will take to the stage to tell tales of heroic failures, miscalculations, and experiments — scientific and otherwise — gone wrong. In keeping with Moth traditions, each story must be true, must be told live with no script or notes, and must be told in ten minutes. read more