Tucker Gets Interrogated on TWIS
Wonderfest Founder, Tucker Hiatt guest spots on This Week in Science (TWIS) podcast with Dr. Kiki Sanford and Justin Jackson, talks about what else.
(The interview occurs a little over half way into the clip.)
Listen: http://www.twis.org/2010/11/03/746/
On Nov 7, TWIS will podcast directly from Wonderfest, UC Berkeley.
Industrial Chemistry, a Primer
By Richard N. Zare, Department of Chemistry Chair, Stanford University
Click Here to read the article on the Chemical Industry, by Richard Zare.
Click Here to read the counter primer on Synthetic Biology, by Paul Berg
Appreciating the Miraculous
According to Einstein, “There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is.”
Perhaps part of the reason you are reading this newsletter — and are interested in Wonderfest — is because you share Einstein’s all-or-nothing view of miracles … or, rather, his all-and-nothing view. Wonderfest helps us to appreciate the miraculous, i.e., to appreciate everything, through understanding. Read more [...]
Synthetic Biology, a Primer
Synthetic Biology is a new paradigm that emerged from the recombinant DNA
breakthroughs in the 70’s and 80’s: it relies on the biosynthetic capabilities of
microbes to carry out the synthesis of complex organic chemical compounds; in
principle, any organic compounds. Read more [...]
A fortnight (minus 1) until Wonderfest
Are you fortifying your curiosity, sharpening your wit, and generally prepping your noggin? I hope so, because the Bay Area Festival of Science is just two weekends away!
Wonderfest 2010 happens at Stanford’s Hewlett Teaching Center on Saturday, Nov. 6, and at Cal’s Stanley Hall on Sunday, Nov. 7. Please REGISTER NOW so that we can better understand who and how many will attend. Please check here for the (nearly) full schedule of events.
That schedule is only “nearly” full because of the many exciting informal presentations that constitute Wonderfest’s Amateur Science Forum (at Stanford on Saturday) and the Bay Area Science Expo (at Cal on Sunday). Consider, for example, Zeke Kossover’s Physics Circus. The Circus comes to town at both the Forum and the Expo. Marc “Zeke” Kossover Read more [...]
2010′s dialogues, Sagan Prize, and website polish
Dear Wonderfest friend,
All the big ducks are in a row. Wonderfest’s six signature dialogues have been confirmed and scheduled for 2010. In previous newsletters, you learned about three dialogue titles and speaker pairs. I am mighty happy to announce the remaining three:
Is Mathematics More Art than Science?
Keith Devlin, H-STAR Institute Executive Director, Stanford
Alejandro Garcia, Professor of Physics, San Jose State
How Did Evolution Shape Human Behavior?
David DeGusta, Research Paleontologist, Paleoanthropology Institute
Henry Gilbert, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, CSU East Bay
Do We Understand the Structure of the Universe?
Lloyd Knox, Professor of Physics, UC Davis
Chung-Pei Ma, Professor of Astronomy, UC Berkeley
REGISTER NOW
To see precisely Read more [...]
