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190618 The neutrino is among the cagiest of particles, a subatomic wisp so ephemeral it could pass through light years of lead with more ease than a hot knife through butter. Despite its extraordinary abundance in the universe—billions pass through your body every second—this ghostly particle is notoriously difficult to trap, inspiring some of the most sophisticated detectors in science just to study it. A closer look could change everything. The elusive neutrino holds clues to some of the most profound questions in particle physics: What happened in the briefest moments after the Big Bang? Why does the universe contain more matter than antimatter? Join leading researchers as they chase neutrinos and other elusive particles in search of nature’s fundamental order. This program is part of the Big Ideas Series, made possible with support from the John Templeton Foundation. The World Science Festival gathers great minds in science and the arts to produce live and digital content that allows a broad general audience to engage with scientific discoveries. Our mission is to cultivate a general public informed by science, inspired by its wonder, convinced of its value, and prepared to engage with its implications for the future. Subscribe to our YouTube Channel for all the latest from WSF. Visit our Website: http://www.worldsciencefestival.com/ Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/worldsciencefestival Follow us on twitter: https://twitter.com/WorldSciFest Original program Date: June 1, 2012 MODERATOR: Bill Weir PARTICIPANTS: Janet Conrad, Francis Halzen, Lawrence Krauss, John Robinson Tiny Ghosts - Musical introduction by John Robinson 00:00 Bill Weir's Introduction 3:48 Participant Introductions 5:00 Why are neutrinos important? 6:28 Why go to the antarctic to find neutrinos? 8:44 The ghost particle appears 11:50 Many didn't believe in the neutrino. 16:20 Neutrinos from an atom bomb. 19:45 Ray Davis and his gutsy experiments. 24:08 Key predictions of the standard model. 28:30 Understanding neutrino oscillations. 31:49 Neutrinos and the Grand Unified Theory. 39:24 The supernova that led to neutrinos. 44:02 How do you measure the information from neutrinos. 53:29 A telescope under the ice? 57:00 What is the holy grail on neutrinos. 1:02:00 You can't adjust nature just observe it. 1:07:32 The truth is stranger then star trek? 1:14:20 Can neutrinos move faster than light? 1:18:46

210923 In 1948, Raymond Davis Jr. was working at Brookhaven National Laboratories on Long Island, NY. A chemist by training, he began to take an interest in neutrino physics and particularly the process of beta decay that emitted them. He quickly became one of the early pioneers of neutrino research, and it was he who devised some of the first chemical neutrino detectors. In particular, the Homestake experiment, led by Davis and colleague John N. Bahcall, was the first to detect neutrinos coming from the sun utilizing a 100,000 gallon tank of dry-cleaning fluid buried deep underground. Watch the full program here: https://youtu.be/CBfUHzkcaHQ Original program Date: June 1, 2012 The World Science Festival gathers great minds in science and the arts to produce live and digital content that allows a broad general audience to engage with scientific discoveries. Our mission is to cultivate a general public informed by science, inspired by its wonder, convinced of its value, and prepared to engage with its implications for the future. Subscribe to our YouTube Channel for all the latest from WSF. Visit our Website: http://www.worldsciencefestival.com/ Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/worldsciencefestival Follow us on twitter: https://twitter.com/WorldSciFest

031219 The World Science Festival partnered with the Museum of the Moving Image to present a special screening of The Imitation Game, the new dramatic feature film starring Benedict Cumberbatch as Alan Turing, the brilliant mathematician racing to crack the Enigma code during World War II. But Turing's mathematical genius wasn't just limited to cryptography—as physicist Janna Levin explains in this excerpt from a discussion after the film. Original Program Date: November 19, 2014 Subscribe to our YouTube Channel for all the latest from WSF. Visit our Website: http://www.worldsciencefestival.com/ Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/worldsciencefestival Follow us on twitter: https://twitter.com/WorldSciFest

260120 In physics, one of the most important principles is the conservation of mass and energy—meaning that what goes in, must come out. After a chemical reaction, mass and energy must be accounted for. In the 1930s, scientists studying nuclear decay were puzzled to find a seeming exception to the rule. During The Elusive Neutrino and the Nature of the Cosmos, physicist Janet Conrad explains how Wolfgang Pauli came to the conclusion that the exception was no exception at all but rather exciting evidence of a new and as-yet undetectable particle. Watch the full program here: https://youtu.be/CBfUHzkcaHQ Original program Date: June 1, 2012 The World Science Festival gathers great minds in science and the arts to produce live and digital content that allows a broad general audience to engage with scientific discoveries. Our mission is to cultivate a general public informed by science, inspired by its wonder, convinced of its value, and prepared to engage with its implications for the future. Subscribe to our YouTube Channel for all the latest from WSF. Visit our Website: http://www.worldsciencefestival.com/ Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/worldsciencefestival Follow us on twitter: https://twitter.com/WorldSciFest

210722 In the early days of neutrino research, it was suspected that nuclear reactions would emit the particles. So when physicist Frederick Reines decided he needed to get a neutrino detector close to a nuclear explosion. Easier said than done. Here, Francis Halzen, a physicist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, describes one of the methods Reines and colleague Clyde Cowan devised to take readings from an atom bomb. In the end, it was decided it was easier and safer to instead take readings from a nuclear reactor. The resulting experiment confirmed the existence of the neutrino, and Reines and Cowan would go on to receive the 1995 Nobel Prize in physics for the discovery. Watch the full program here: https://youtu.be/CBfUHzkcaHQ Original program Date: June 1, 2012 The World Science Festival gathers great minds in science and the arts to produce live and digital content that allows a broad general audience to engage with scientific discoveries. Our mission is to cultivate a general public informed by science, inspired by its wonder, convinced of its value, and prepared to engage with its implications for the future. Subscribe to our YouTube Channel for all the latest from WSF. Visit our Website: http://www.worldsciencefestival.com/ Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/worldsciencefestival Follow us on twitter: https://twitter.com/WorldSciFest

140123 The 2012 Cool Jobs program began with actor, author, and director Alan Alda hosting The Flame Challenge Prize Announcement. The contest, conceived by Alda and Stony Brook University’s Center for Communicating Science, called on scientists worldwide to give their best explanation of how a flame works—but in a way that makes sense to a kid. The winner was chosen by hundreds of 11-year olds around the country. The World Science Festival gathers great minds in science and the arts to produce live and digital content that allows a broad general audience to engage with scientific discoveries. Our mission is to cultivate a general public informed by science, inspired by its wonder, convinced of its value, and prepared to engage with its implications for the future. Subscribe to our YouTube Channel for all the latest from WSF. Visit our Website: http://www.worldsciencefestival.com/ Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/worldsciencefestival Follow us on twitter: https://twitter.com/WorldSciFest

251219 During The Elusive Neutrino and the Nature of the Cosmos, physicist Janet Conrad used a pair of tuning forks to demonstrate the ability waves have to cancel each other out. In her research, she has has found neutrinos to be doing the same—moving in and out of her detectors' ability to find them. This wave-like behavior reveals surprising properties about the neutrino and insights into the nature of relativity. Watch the full program here: https://youtu.be/CBfUHzkcaHQ Original program Date: June 1, 2012 The World Science Festival gathers great minds in science and the arts to produce live and digital content that allows a broad general audience to engage with scientific discoveries. Our mission is to cultivate a general public informed by science, inspired by its wonder, convinced of its value, and prepared to engage with its implications for the future. Subscribe to our YouTube Channel for all the latest from WSF. Visit our Website: http://www.worldsciencefestival.com/ Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/worldsciencefestival Follow us on twitter: https://twitter.com/WorldSciFest

301019 Can neutrinos move faster than the speed of light? Turns out they can't. But will they surprise us in other ways? Moderator Bill Weir asks Lawrence Krauss, Francis Halzen, and Janet Conrad what we know about neutrinos and what we can expect to learn. Each shares their unique insights on what excites them about the future of neutrino physics. Watch the full program here: https://youtu.be/CBfUHzkcaHQ Original program Date: June 1, 2012 The World Science Festival gathers great minds in science and the arts to produce live and digital content that allows a broad general audience to engage with scientific discoveries. Our mission is to cultivate a general public informed by science, inspired by its wonder, convinced of its value, and prepared to engage with its implications for the future. Subscribe to our YouTube Channel for all the latest from WSF. Visit our Website: http://www.worldsciencefestival.com/ Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/worldsciencefestival Follow us on twitter: https://twitter.com/WorldSciFest

170220 University of Washington Arctic researcher Kate Stafford shares oceanography's unanswered questions about Arctic whales. Researchers are intrigued by the way Arctic whales rely on cues from the environment. The World Science Festival gathers great minds in science and the arts to produce live and digital content that allows a broad general audience to engage with scientific discoveries. Our mission is to cultivate a general public informed by science, inspired by its wonder, convinced of its value, and prepared to engage with its implications for the future. Subscribe to our YouTube Channel for all the latest from WSF. Visit our Website: http://www.worldsciencefestival.com/ Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/worldscience... Follow us on twitter: https://twitter.com/WorldSciFest

090823 For the 2013 Flame Challenge, scientists from around the world submitted their explanations to the question, "What is Time?" It was a difficult question made more difficult by the fact that their judges were a panel of 11-year-olds. We went behind the scenes of the deliberations. The World Science Festival gathers great minds in science and the arts to produce live and digital content that allows a broad general audience to engage with scientific discoveries. Our mission is to cultivate a general public informed by science, inspired by its wonder, convinced of its value, and prepared to engage with its implications for the future. Subscribe to our YouTube Channel for all the latest from WSF. Visit our Website: http://www.worldsciencefestival.com/ Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/worldsciencefestival Follow us on twitter: https://twitter.com/WorldSciFest

151023 Every generation benefits from the insights and discoveries of the generations who came before. “If I have seen a little further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants,” wrote Isaac Newton. In a special series, the World Science Festival invites audiences to stand on the shoulders of modern-day giants. The 2013 address was given by James Watson, Chancellor Emeritus of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, who, along with Francis Crick, stunned the world by cracking the code of life. Their Nobel Prize-winning discovery of the double helix in 1953 launched molecular biology and has had a breathtaking impact on modern science and medicine. Watson speaks about what he considers his “most important work since the double helix”—finding the elusive cure for cancer. The World Science Festival gathers great minds in science and the arts to produce live and digital content that allows a broad general audience to engage with scientific discoveries. Our mission is to cultivate a general public informed by science, inspired by its wonder, convinced of its value, and prepared to engage with its implications for the future. Subscribe to our YouTube Channel for all the latest from WSF. Visit our Website: http://www.worldsciencefestival.com/ Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/worldsciencefestival Follow us on twitter: https://twitter.com/WorldSciFest Original Program Date: June 1, 2013 PARTICIPANT: James Watson

080323 He stunned the world by cracking the code of life in 1953. The discovery of the double helix has had a breathtaking impact on modern science and medicine, and continues his legacy in research. Dr. Watson discusses his "most important work since the double helix" searching for the elusive cure for cancer. Watch the full program here: https://youtu.be/hJZFBJffPjA Original Program Date: June 1, 2013 The World Science Festival gathers great minds in science and the arts to produce live and digital content that allows a broad general audience to engage with scientific discoveries. Our mission is to cultivate a general public informed by science, inspired by its wonder, convinced of its value, and prepared to engage with its implications for the future. Subscribe to our YouTube Channel for all the latest from WSF. Visit our Website: http://www.worldsciencefestival.com/ Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/worldscience... Follow us on twitter: https://twitter.com/WorldSciFest

180123 Music with rhythm can make your brain think your body is moving, even when you’re sitting still. Find out how by comparing the Coen Brother’s 2010 True Grit to the 1969 film with John Wayne. The World Science Festival gathers great minds in science and the arts to produce live and digital content that allows a broad general audience to engage with scientific discoveries. Our mission is to cultivate a general public informed by science, inspired by its wonder, convinced of its value, and prepared to engage with its implications for the future. Subscribe to our YouTube Channel for all the latest from WSF. Visit our Website: http://www.worldsciencefestival.com/ Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/worldsciencefestival Follow us on twitter: https://twitter.com/WorldSciFest

090923 The history of computers is a history of competition and collaboration: Innovators have worked together, but also clashed over the place of computers in society and how they should function. Those clashes—between privacy and openness, businessmen and bohemians—continue to this day. See"The Innovators"author Walter Isaacson, MakerBot CEO Jennifer Lawton, The Muse.com founder Kathryn Minshew and journalist John Hockenberry parse the past, present, and future of our technological revolution in the World Science Festival event Science and Story: The History of the Future. Subscribe to our YouTube Channel for all the latest from WSF. Visit our Website: http://www.worldsciencefestival.com/ Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/worldsciencefestival Follow us on twitter: https://twitter.com/WorldSciFest Original Program Date: October 22, 2014 Host: John Hockenberry PARTICIPANTS: Walter Isaacson, Jennifer Lawton, Kathryn Minshew John Hockenberry's introduction. 00:00 Early computing and animation. 3:45 The HP 41C computer. 7:50 Welcome Walter Isaacson. 9:10 What was the interest in computing? 11:00 Who was Alan Turing? 15:47 The first electronic circuit board. 21:30 The hardware lead to the development of software. 26:32 The Altair computer from 1975. 30:20 And that's how Apple is born. 33:38 Walter takes on John at Pong. 41:46 The innovation of the internet. 45:29 Those who refuse to lend their computers power. 51:11 Welcome Jennifer Lawton & Kathryn Minshew 54:10 Does MakerBot land on both sides of the open source and IP debate? 56:45 What is Unix? 1:00:00 How much IP is involved in the 3D printing world. 1:03:18 What are the aspirations of 3D printing? 1:07:02 The rise of the startup. 1:13:05 Do morals keep up with technology? 1:17:03

111023 In 1997, physicist William Phillips won the Nobel Prize for his work in cooling atoms to near-absolute zero using lasers. Drawing from his knowledge of the strange behavior of matter at extreme cold, and inspired by his own fascination with science as a child, Phillips now devotes much of his time sharing his passion for science with others. For him, children are natural scientists, and kindling their curiosity for the world around them is the best path to raising a new generation of innovators. Original Program Date: June 2, 2012 The World Science Festival gathers great minds in science and the arts to produce live and digital content that allows a broad general audience to engage with scientific discoveries. Our mission is to cultivate a general public informed by science, inspired by its wonder, convinced of its value, and prepared to engage with its implications for the future. Subscribe to our YouTube Channel for all the latest from WSF. Visit our Website: http://www.worldsciencefestival.com/ Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/worldsciencefestival Follow us on twitter: https://twitter.com/WorldSciFest

160816 They might not have played this video game since the 1980s, but"The Innovators"author Walter Isaacson and journalist John Hockenberry got a chance to prove their Pong skills at the recent World Science Festival event Science and Story: The History of the Future. Aside from playing video games, they also were part of a wide-ranging discussion on computer evolution, creativity, innovation, and ethics... Watch the Full Program Here: https://youtu.be/3sLC_NDKuwU Original Program Date: October 22, 2014 Subscribe to our YouTube Channel for all the latest from WSF. Visit our Website: http://www.worldsciencefestival.com/ Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/worldsciencefestival Follow us on twitter: https://twitter.com/WorldSciFest

301118 When astronomer Robert Woodrow Wilson and physicist Arno Allan Penzias were testing a new type of antenna, they hardly expected their work would lead to some of the most important discoveries of modern cosmology. What started as annoying noise in their measurements turned out to be the background hum of the early Universe. Watch the Full Program Here: http://youtu.be/w1aAMy5anlM Original Program Date: May 31, 2012 The World Science Festival gathers great minds in science and the arts to produce live and digital content that allows a broad general audience to engage with scientific discoveries. Our mission is to cultivate a general public informed by science, inspired by its wonder, convinced of its value, and prepared to engage with its implications for the future. Subscribe to our YouTube Channel for all the latest from WSF. Visit our Website: http://www.worldsciencefestival.com/ Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/worldsciencefestival Follow us on twitter: https://twitter.com/WorldSciFest

180423 In a 1934 book titled, The Treaties on Documentation, Belgian entrepreneur Paul Otlet conceived of a system for requesting and retrieving massive amounts of information. Calling it a "radiated library," Otlet's device would allow users to retrieve all the world's information—books, magazines, film, music—with a single phone call. Did he invent the Internet? Here, Alex Wright, director of user experience at The New York Times and discoverer of Otlet's lost opus, explains at the 2012 World Science Festival program, Internet Everywhere, just how close Otlet had come to creating the world's first information-networking system. Watch the Full Program Here: https://youtu.be/WkAwZmCm2Fs Original Program Date: June 2, 2012 The World Science Festival gathers great minds in science and the arts to produce live and digital content that allows a broad general audience to engage with scientific discoveries. Our mission is to cultivate a general public informed by science, inspired by its wonder, convinced of its value, and prepared to engage with its implications for the future. Subscribe to our YouTube Channel for all the latest from WSF. Visit our Website: http://www.worldsciencefestival.com/ Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/worldsciencefestival Follow us on twitter: https://twitter.com/WorldSciFest

121023 Our genes strictly dictate our personalities, appearance and diseases. Or do they? Research has revealed that genes can turn on and off; they can be expressed for years and then silenced. Sometimes, they are never activated. And these genetic instructions—how and when DNA is read—can be determined by the experiences of one’s ancestors, even those several generations back. Epigenetics studies these instructions, the biological markers along our DNA that regulate gene expression in response to features like age or environment, and which can influence the traits we pass onto our children. Glimpse into the future with scientists at the forefront of this emerging field as they reveal the role our genetic markers play in steering our biological destiny. This program is part of the Big Ideas Series, made possible with support from the John Templeton Foundation. The World Science Festival gathers great minds in science and the arts to produce live and digital content that allows a broad general audience to engage with scientific discoveries. Our mission is to cultivate a general public informed by science, inspired by its wonder, convinced of its value, and prepared to engage with its implications for the future. Subscribe to our YouTube Channel for all the latest from WSF. Visit our Website: http://www.worldsciencefestival.com/ Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/worldscience... Follow us on twitter: https://twitter.com/WorldSciFest Original Program Date: June 1, 2013 MODERATOR: Bill Blakemore PARTICIPANTS: Frances A. Champagne, Randy L. Jirtle, Jean-Pierre Issa Bill Blakemore's Introduction 00:06 Participant Introductions 1:55 A brief history of Epigenetics. 3:16 What is Epigenetics? 4:30 Can your DNA be effected by the natural world? 6:05 Why do identical twins end up being different people? 9:17 The mechanics of the physical genome. 14:05 Humans wouldn't be here without variation. 18:35 Three breakthrough studies. 21:41 What is cold mother syndrome? 33:30 The measuring of Epigenetics. 41:05 What are the risks to treat neurological disorders with Epigenetics? 47:24 Is there any denial to the insights of Epigenetics? 53:44 Will we sue our genealogical past? 59:30 The eugenics movement today. 1:05:50 Will there be pills that can change our DNA? 1:10:00 Can this therapy revert metastasis process? 1:15:14 Does what extent does bacteria in the body effect metastasis?1:15:55 What is the effect of culture on Epigenetics? 1:18:49

020923 In a world where seeing is believing, one of the chief disadvantages of quantum physics is that it’s largely invisible. The wonderfully bizarre rules that allow a vanishingly small particle to exist in two places simultaneously, for instance, usually apply at scales too small to be seen by the naked eye. But not always. Here, physicist Boaz Almog of Israeli’s Tel Aviv University gives audience members of the 5th Annual World Science Festival Gala Celebration a rare macroscopic view of the magical properties of quantum mechanics. Sharing the stage with fellow physicist Brian Greene, Almog conducts the first public demo in the U.S. of an ethereal phenomenon he calls quantum levitation, sending a thin, super-chilled wafer zipping around a circular track like a miniature flying saucer. He also freezes the wafer in mid-air, as though trapped in a vat of invisible glue. How? Watch as Greene explains. Original Program Date: June 2, 2012 The World Science Festival gathers great minds in science and the arts to produce live and digital content that allows a broad general audience to engage with scientific discoveries. Our mission is to cultivate a general public informed by science, inspired by its wonder, convinced of its value, and prepared to engage with its implications for the future. Subscribe to our YouTube Channel for all the latest from WSF. Visit our Website: http://www.worldsciencefestival.com/ Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/worldsciencefestival Follow us on twitter: https://twitter.com/WorldSciFest

120923 When Richard Garriott learned from NASA that he couldn't realize his lifelong dream of following in his father's footsteps to become an astronaut due to bad vision, he did what almost anyone would do: he dropped out of school, amassed a fortune developing video games, and sent himself to space. Scientists, writers, and artists take to the stage to tell stories about their personal relationship to science. The result is a collection of poignant, hilarious and unpredictable tales sure to intrigue and surely hard to forget. Presented in collaboration with The Moth. Watch them all in The Moth at WSF Series. Original Program Date: June 3, 2010 RICHARD GARRIOTT Space Traveler In 2008, Richard Garriott , a leading expert on private and commercial space travel, realized a lifelong dream to travel to space when he launched aboard the Russian Soyuz TMA-13 spacecraft to the International Space Station and became the sixth private citizen to fly in Earth’s orbit. In doing so, he became the first second-generation American in space, following the same path of his father Owen Garriott, who completed two space missions in his NASA career. Having caught the space bug as a child from his father, Garriott has held a passion for the space industry and has invested in various related ventures such as the Zero-G Corporation, X-Prize and Spacehab. He is chairman of Space Adventures, Ltd., the world’s premier private space exploration company. He is also on the board of the Challenger Center for Space Science Education. The World Science Festival gathers great minds in science and the arts to produce live and digital content that allows a broad general audience to engage with scientific discoveries. Our mission is to cultivate a general public informed by science, inspired by its wonder, convinced of its value, and prepared to engage with its implications for the future. Subscribe to our YouTube Channel for all the latest from WSF. Visit our Website: http://www.worldsciencefestival.com/ Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/worldsciencefestival Follow us on twitter: https://twitter.com/WorldSciFest

090923 Physicist and WSF alum Janna Levin is accustomed to the mind-bending turns that the theoretical far reaches of the universe can take. But for all the unpredictability of space-time, it was life here on Earth that threw her for a loop. Levin recalls the strange sequence of events that sent her through a doctorate degree, across the ocean, and back again. Scientists, writers, and artists take to the stage to tell stories about their personal relationship to science. The result is a collection of poignant, hilarious and unpredictable tales sure to intrigue and surely hard to forget. Presented in collaboration with The Moth. Watch them all in The Moth at WSF Series. Original Program Date: June 4, 2011 The World Science Festival gathers great minds in science and the arts to produce live and digital content that allows a broad general audience to engage with scientific discoveries. Our mission is to cultivate a general public informed by science, inspired by its wonder, convinced of its value, and prepared to engage with its implications for the future. Subscribe to our YouTube Channel for all the latest from WSF. Visit our Website: http://www.worldsciencefestival.com/ Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/worldsciencefestival Follow us on twitter: https://twitter.com/WorldSciFest

120923 Nobel Prize-winning physicist Frank Wilczek recounts how imprecise editing in popular science media can lead to apocalyptic visions, as well as awkwardly hilarious moments. Scientists, writers, and artists take to the stage to tell stories about their personal relationship to science. The result is a collection of poignant, hilarious and unpredictable tales sure to intrigue and surely hard to forget. Presented in collaboration with The Moth. Watch them all in The Moth at WSF Series. Original Program Date: June 3, 2010 FRANK WILCZEK Theoretical Physicist, Mathematician, and Nobel Laureate in Physics Professor Frank Wilczek is considered one of the world’s eminent theoretical physicists. In 2004, he received the Nobel Prize in Physics for the discovery of asymptotic freedom in the theory of the strong interaction—key to several major problems in particle physics and beyond. Professor Wilczek contributes regularly to Physics Today and to Nature, explaining topics at the frontiers of physics to wider scientific audiences. Two of his pieces have been anthologized in Best American Science Writing (2003, 2005). With his wife Betsy Devine, he wrote Longing for the Harmonies (W.W. Norton). His most recent book, The Lightness of Being: Mass, Ether, and the Unification of Forces (Perseus) was published in September 2008, and he’s now hard at work on The Attraction of Darkness, a novel mixing science, music, sex, and murder. Professor Wilczek is a second-generation American and a graduate of the New York City’s public schools. Presently he is the Herman Feshbach Professor of Physics at MIT. The World Science Festival gathers great minds in science and the arts to produce live and digital content that allows a broad general audience to engage with scientific discoveries. Our mission is to cultivate a general public informed by science, inspired by its wonder, convinced of its value, and prepared to engage with its implications for the future. Subscribe to our YouTube Channel for all the latest from WSF. Visit our Website: http://www.worldsciencefestival.com/ Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/worldsciencefestival Follow us on twitter: https://twitter.com/WorldSciFest

130923 In 1989, the use of DNA evidence in criminal cases was nearly unheard of. That year, two lawyers pressed an incredibly busy Eric Lander—a leading contributor to the Human Genome Project—to testify about this emerging technology in their case. The biologist and geneticist would have flat out refused, but the lawyers played on Lander's greatest passion: his love of teaching. Scientists, writers, and artists take to the stage to tell stories about their personal relationship to science. The result is a collection of poignant, hilarious and unpredictable tales sure to intrigue and surely hard to forget. Presented in collaboration with The Moth. Watch them all in The Moth at WSF Series. Original Program Date: June 4, 2011 The World Science Festival gathers great minds in science and the arts to produce live and digital content that allows a broad general audience to engage with scientific discoveries. Our mission is to cultivate a general public informed by science, inspired by its wonder, convinced of its value, and prepared to engage with its implications for the future. Subscribe to our YouTube Channel for all the latest from WSF. Visit our Website: http://www.worldsciencefestival.com/ Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/worldsciencefestival Follow us on twitter: https://twitter.com/WorldSciFest

210123 Neuroscientist James Fallon is a self-styled "hobbit scientist." The rules are simple: Don't talk to the press and don't go out of your area of expertise. But when a fascinating new brain scanner enters the lab, Fallon can't resist. He ends up breaking both rules, and learns a lot more about himself than he bargained for. Scientists, writers, and artists take to the stage to tell stories about their personal relationship to science. The result is a collection of poignant, hilarious and unpredictable tales sure to intrigue and surely hard to forget. Presented in collaboration with The Moth. Watch them all in The Moth at WSF Series. Original Program Date: June 4, 2011 The World Science Festival gathers great minds in science and the arts to produce live and digital content that allows a broad general audience to engage with scientific discoveries. Our mission is to cultivate a general public informed by science, inspired by its wonder, convinced of its value, and prepared to engage with its implications for the future. Subscribe to our YouTube Channel for all the latest from WSF. Visit our Website: http://www.worldsciencefestival.com/ Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/worldsciencefestival Follow us on twitter: https://twitter.com/WorldSciFest