Events - May, 31, 2013

Legal/Politics/Economics, Science/Tech/Health

Movement Talks: Dance and the American Sacred Cows/Meat and Money

With Carrie Ahern and Zefrey Throwell, moderated by Edward Henkel. Young upstarts Ahern and Throwell confront current issues of transparency on Wall Street and humane...

Legal/Politics/Economics

Jeremy Scahill on Dirty Wars: The World is a Battlefield

Nation Books and The New School present National Security correspondent for The Nation magazine Jeremy Scahill in conversation with Spencer Ackerman, a national security reporter and blogger for Wired magazine on his newest...

Science/Tech/Health

Ending the Epidemic: Science Advances on AIDS

This program brings together leading researchers on the forefront of scientific efforts to understand and attack the virus that causes AIDS. With the rate of...

Science/Tech/Health, Food & Drink

The Science of Food: From Geek to Chic

In 1984, Harold McGee’s beloved book, On Food and Cooking renewed our awareness of the inextricable link between science and cooking, and we began to shift our attention...

Science/Tech/Health, Food & Drink

The Scientific Kitchen

Demystify the science of phase behavior and the formation of gluten protein networks with biophysicist Amy Rowat and Pie Corps co-creator, Cheryl Perry. When the line is drawn...

The Scientific Kitchen

Demystify the science of phase behavior and the formation of gluten protein networks with biophysicist Amy Rowat and Pie Corps co-creator, Cheryl Perry. When the line is drawn...

Science/Tech/Health, Food & Drink

The Joy of Six Legged Sex: An Evening of Insect Courtship and Cocktails

Join a unique night of cocktails, courtship, and conversation with leading experts about how insects and humans attract their mates. The fun begins aboard the...

Books, Science/Tech/Health

The Moth StorySLAM: Natural Selection

Ten stories, three teams of judges, one winner. Peabody award-winning storytelling collective, The Moth, joins the World Science Festival for a science-themed StorySLAM. At the...

Science/Tech/Health, Film

Valley of Saints: Science in Troubled Waters

Join us for a screening of Valley of Saints, winner of the 2012 Alfred P. Sloan Foundation feature film prize at Sundance. Set on beautiful Dal...

Science/Tech/Health

Architects of the Mind: A Blueprint for the Human Brain

Is the human brain an elaborate organic computer? Since the time of the earliest electronic computers, some have imagined that with sufficiently robust memory, processing...

Science/Tech/Health

Spooky Action: The Drama of Quantum Mechanics

In 1935, Albert Einstein and two colleagues published a landmark paper revealing that quantum mechanics allows widely separated objects to influence one another, even though...

Science/Tech/Health

Infinity

“The infinite! No other question has ever moved so profoundly the spirit of man,” said David Hilbert, one of the most influential mathematicians of the...