Recent replies to "World Science Festival ( http://www.worldsciencefestival.com/ )"

Reply from chris wiggins

chris wiggins — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 23:10:10 -0000

hmm. dunno how i missed that.

anything can be a tag. even muppets.

Reply from Natalie Cox

Natalie Cox — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 22:41:23 -0000

This was the “blurb”: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/physics/ance/WorldScienceFestival.html on the Columbia site in March. I read the NYTimes article and the muppet worries me. Note to naturals: Alan Alda is a tag? Really?

Reply from Noah Gray

Noah Gray — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 19:46:30 -0000

Thanks for the link, Chris. A lot of cool stuff there. I’d like to echo Chris’ call to see if anyone in the NYC NN group is involved in this festival. We support our own.

Reply from Andrew Mugler

Andrew Mugler — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 18:25:26 -0000

here are a few of the events that i think look interesting:

stories of experiments gone wrong

visualizations of quantum mechanics (hopefully not too hokey and hopefully sticks to visualizing actual math)

mathemagician (a professor from my undergrad institution, harvey mudd, whose show is entertaining)

andrew