Blogs for TalkingScience.orgCreated by Ira Flatow as a sister site to ScienceFriday.com, which shares the name of his NPR radio show. During which Mezzo Soprano Susan Graham Interviews Composer John Adams. A review of Act One of John Adams' opera about the days just before scientists tested the atomic bomb in the desert in July 1945. Imagine Science Film Festival People's Choice Winner Dara Bratt Details In Vivid Detail An interview with the award-winning Director of The Wormhole, which earned the Imagine Science Film Festival's Nature Science Merit Award. The holograms of correspondent Jessica Yellin and rapper Will.I.Am were fascinating and spooky. But should the technology be used to glam up reporters? An account of Awards Night at the Imagine Science Film Festival. I discuss the criteria with Juan Carlos Lopez, Editor-in-Chief of Nature Medicine and a festival sponsor, and Darcy Kelley, Columbia University Professor of Neuroscience and a festival judge and advisor. My first blog is a review of BLAST!, a documentary by Mark Devlin, in which astrophysicists struggle to launch their telescope from Antarctica. |
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