As every year since I arrived to Tampa, I will be running Miles for Moffitt, the charity race that raises fund for cancer research at Moffitt. I am not in great shape, having injured my right calf 10 days ago, but that is clearly not the point and I will run slowly if that is what it takes. So I hope to see some of you this coming Saturday (14th May) and, if you cannot come but want to help cancer research, here’s the fundraising page for our team IMOffitt as well as my personal one.
This will not be a problem with the Pint of Science US events (www.pintofscience.us).
Every year the World Science Festival, organized by physicist Brian Greene and CEO Tracy Day, gets a dollop of cash from Templeton (the sponsors are here), and every year it has a few “Big Ideas” Symposia directly sponsored by Templeton. Most of the ones for this year (program here) look fairly tame, but then there’s this one, with the graphic shown below. The indented material is taken from the Science Festival Announcment.
TO UNWEAVE A RAINBOW: SCIENCE AND THE UNDERSTANDING OF HUMAN EXPERIENCE
DATE: Thursday, June 2, 2016
TIME: 8:00 PM-9:30 PM
VENUE: NYU Skirball Center for the Performing Arts
PARTICIPANTS: Brian Greene, Leon Wieseltier, and othersAs long ago as the early 19th century, the poet Keats bemoaned the washing away of the world’s beauty and mystery in the wake of natural philosophy’s reductionist insights—its tendency to unweave a rainbow. Two centuries later, the tentacles of science…
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