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Their mission statement...

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.

You can physically go to it if you are near New York City. For the rest of us, this year they are going to stream 11 panels. The link will take you to youtube page where these panels will be streamed.

1. May 31st at 8pm: Computational Creativity
   

   Today, there are robots that make art, move like dancers, tell stories, and even help human chefs devise unique recipes. But is there ingenuity in silico? Can computers be creative? A rare treat for the senses, this thought-provoking event brings together artists and computer scientists who are creating original works with the help of artificially intelligent machines. Joined by leading experts in psychology and neuroscience, they’ll explore the roots of creativity in humans and computers, what artificial creativity reveals about human imagination, and the future of hybrid systems that build on the capabilities of both.
   MODERATOR: John Schaefer
   PARTICIPANTS: Sougwen Chung, Jesse Engel, Peter Ulric Tse, Lav Varshney

2. June 1st at 8pm: Forever Young
   

   Synthetic blood mass-produced to meet supply shortages. Livers and kidneys “bioprinted” on demand. Missing fingers and toes re-grown with a jolt of bioelectricity. Regenerative medicine promises to do more than just treat disease, injuries, or congenital conditions. It holds the potential to rejuvenate, heal, or completely replace damaged tissue and organs. If successful, regenerative medicine will have immense impact on how we care for the injured, sick, and aging — and how we think about death. This program will explore mind-boggling medical advances as well as the societal and economic implications of a future in which everybody may truly be forever young.
   MODERATOR: Emily Senay
   PARTICIPANTS: Dany Spencer Adams, Stephen Badylak, Doris Taylor

   
   [*]June 1st at 8pm: The Evolution of Evolution
   

   It’s a profound question facing modern humans: Are we still subject to natural selection? After hundreds of years of scientific progress, many of the pressures that control evolution—predators and disease—are decreasing. At the same time, technology capable of engineering the genome is in our hands. Are we undergoing a new form of evolution in which artificial changes are faster and more radical than those produced by the natural world? Should we control our own genetic material? Where will these changes lead us? Renowned geneticists, paleoanthropologists, and biologists consider our genetic future as evolution evolves.
   MODERATOR: John Hockenberry
   PARTICIPANTS: Hank Greely, Sam Sternberg, Ian Tattersall, Sarah Tishkoff

   
   [*]June 2nd at 8pm: The Social Synapse
   

   We humans work together on enormous scales, build complex tools as large as cities, and create social networks that span the globe. What is the key to this innately social profile? How did it evolve? This program will examine the development of the human brain — and the brains of other animals — asking how neurons and synapses orchestrate communal behavior and guide group interactions, demonstrating how our social nature is key to our humanity.
   MODERATOR: John Donvan
   PARTICIPANTS: Louise Barrett, Agustín Fuentes, Kevin Laland, Kevin Ochsner, Dietrich Stout

   
   [*]June 2nd at 8pm: Quantum Reality
   

   Ninety years after the historic double-slit experiment, the quantum revolution shows no sign of slowing. Join a vibrant conversation with renowned leaders in theoretical physics, quantum computation, and philosophical foundations, focused on how quantum physics continues to impact understanding on issues profound and practical, from the edge of black holes and the fibers of spacetime to teleportation and the future of computers.
   MODERATOR: Brian Greene
   PARTICIPANTS: Mark Van Raamsdonk, Gerard ’t Hooft, David Wallace, K. Birgitta Whaley

   
   [*]June 3rd at 2pm: Pondering the Imponderables
   

   Physicists and cosmologists are closing in on how the universe operates at its very core. But even with powerful telescopes and particle accelerators pushed nearly to their limits, experimenters struggle to keep up as theoreticians march forward, leaving grand theories untested. Is our universe unique or one of many? What was there before the Big Bang? Why is there something rather than nothing? Some argue that if these deep questions can’t be confirmed empirically, they’re not relevant to science. Are they right? Join world-leading cosmologists, philosophers and physicists as they tackle the profound questions of existence.
   MODERATOR: Jim Holt
   PARTICIPANTS: David Z. Albert, George F. R. Ellis, Alan Guth, Veronika Hubeny, Andrei Linde, Barry Loewer

   
   [*]June 3rd at 4pm: Flame Challenge: What is Energy?
   

   Alan Alda has issued this year’s challenge to the world’s top scientists: What is energy? In an action-packed hour of interactive demonstrations, Alan and a team of experts invite the audience to explore how our bodies use energy, the impact of natural resources, and how we’re going to power the world in the future. The program also highlights the winners of the 2017 Flame Challenge, in which video and written explanations of energy were judged for clarity’s sake…by 20,000 eleven year-olds.
   MODERATOR: Alan Alda
   PARTICIPANTS: Eddie Goldstein, Herman Pontzer, Lynn Trahey

   [*]June 3rd at 8pm: Much Ado About Nearly Nothing
   

   The biggest challenge of our time, meeting the energy demands of an exploding population on a warming planet, may well be met by manipulating matter on the tiniest of scales — revolutionizing how we power the planet. Join world-class nanoscientists and environmental leaders to explore how the capacity to harness molecules and atoms is accelerating spectacular inventions — including light-weight “wonder materials,” vital energy-storage technologies, and new sources of renewable energy — which promise to redefine the very future of energy.
   MODERATOR: Walter Isaacson
   PARTICIPANTS: Sanjoy Banerjee, Yury Gogotsi, Patricia Holden, Paul Weiss

   
   [*]June 3rd at 8pm: Science in a Polarized World
   

   Our age is marked by the proliferation of information, and yet we can’t agree. Science is supposed to be neutral, and yet it has generated some of the deepest societal divides. Why? Our response to scientific information depends on psychology, emotion, peer pressure, politics, and cultural influences. How can we navigate these differences and implement smart policy in a contentious society? Join a vibrant and important discussion examining the interface between the scientific process and the sometimes unscientific public, as we hurtle headlong into an uncertain future.
   MODERATOR: John Donvan
   PARTICIPANTS: France Córdova, Brian Greene, Dan Kahan, Paul Nurse

   
   [*]June 4th at 1:30pm: Cool Jobs
   

   The World Science Festival’s highly celebrated program, Cool Jobs, is back with an astounding line-up of the coolest science teachers around. Can you break a cinder block on your chest? Dance your way into learning about fossils? Play catch with a robot? These are all things that these people do every day…at work. And all because they know how to make science the most exciting thing around. Come experience their passion during an interactive performance you will not want to miss.
   HOST “Science Bob” Pflugfelder
   PARTICIPANTS: Valerie Camille Jones, Tom McFadden, Anoopa Singh, Joshua Winter, Yenmin Young

   
   [*]June 4th at 5pm: Cartographers of the Brain
   

   Imagine navigating the globe with a map that only sketched out the continents. That’s pretty much how neuroscientists have been operating for decades. But one of the most ambitious programs in all of neuroscience, the Human Connectome Project, has just yielded a “network map” that is shedding light on the intricate connectivity in the brain. Join leading neuroscientists and psychologists as they explore how the connectome promises to revolutionize treatments for psychiatric and neurological disorders, answer profound questions regarding the electrochemical roots of memory and behavior, and clarify the link between our upbringing and brain develo
   pment.
   PARTICIPANTS: Deanna Barch, Jeff Lichtman, Nim Tottenham, David Van Essen

Will this be archived?
Probably.

I don't really science, but I am interested.
Don't worry. These are made for general audiences. Having said that, you will get more out of it if you have some understanding of these topics.

Jayu26, I know everything there is to know about science. These panels can't show me anything new.
You've got some attitude, mister. Besides, you're wrong! Because science is ever changing and it is all about learning and updating the theories and idea with more accurate data. If nothing else, you might see something you already knew in a different light.

Science is witchcraft and y'all are going to hell.
I am fine with that.

Recite π to 1000 places if old.