World Science Festival | What Is Sleep? with Alan Alda

Birds do it, bees do it, rats and fruit flies and we do it—sleep, that is. But what is sleep? Why do we dream? And what goes on in sleeping brains—from the tiny fruit fly’s to ours? Find out as we watch the brain activity of a wired-up person sleeping offstage, learn about sleep’s many phases and discover the stunning result of not sleeping for days on end. Capping the program, Alan Alda will announce this year’s Flame Challenge winners, those scientists whose explanations of sleep were voted best by our 20,000 11-year-old judges.

This program is in association with the Flame Challenge, an annual contest held by The Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science at Stony Brook University.











When: Sun., May. 31, 2015 at 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Where: NYU Skirball Center
566 LaGuardia Pl.
212-998-4941
Price: $30
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Birds do it, bees do it, rats and fruit flies and we do it—sleep, that is. But what is sleep? Why do we dream? And what goes on in sleeping brains—from the tiny fruit fly’s to ours? Find out as we watch the brain activity of a wired-up person sleeping offstage, learn about sleep’s many phases and discover the stunning result of not sleeping for days on end. Capping the program, Alan Alda will announce this year’s Flame Challenge winners, those scientists whose explanations of sleep were voted best by our 20,000 11-year-old judges.

This program is in association with the Flame Challenge, an annual contest held by The Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science at Stony Brook University.

Buy tickets/get more info now