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Oh, Maker! Janelle Monae Rockin' the IF Tee
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As part of Thrivals at the IdeaFestival, Janelle Monae will perform Wednesday evening on September 29 at the Kentucky Center. In the meantime, the IdeaFestival humbly accepts this endorsement. All-access ...
Wednesday, 08 September 2010
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Voyagers "confronted no Other, or even life"
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... cross or suffer for science, would not know epiphanies or endure tropical fevers. They would lay no claims, issue no proclamations of sovereignty, raise no toasts to king or republic, sign no treaties ...
Friday, 03 September 2010
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Daniel Tammet: "The immense potential in us all"
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... so different after all. In the second of his two best sellers, "Embracing the Wide Sky," he combines detailed descriptions of how his mind works with the latest neuroscience research to argue that there ...
Monday, 16 August 2010
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Heavy, rough and hard
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"When you pick up an object, you might think that you are manipulating it, but in a sense, it is also manipulating you." "Not Exactly Rocket Science" at Discover describes how the things we touch affect ...
Thursday, 12 August 2010
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Late? She had something on her mind
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... make merry. Bad metaphors can even shape the science we get. But even the perfectly straightforward question, if the evidence from some experimental philosophy and this example are ...
Monday, 09 August 2010
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Paul Gilster has Centauri Dreams
(Main Content/IF Blog)
... interstellar journeying, I also think a lot about long-term approaches to science, and the need to focus on small goals that can one day pay off in a major breakthrough. Thus my favorite quote, from Lao ...
Monday, 19 July 2010
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Lost? Good.
(Main Content/IF Blog)
... at the IdeaFestival in 2010, bring abstraction to life through their science or art or entrepreneurial efforts or experimentation, but, having become lost, that anyone would willingly turn the here and ...
Thursday, 15 July 2010
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Bob Berman - Time and space "a turtle shell"
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Science popularizer and the "Strange Universe" columnist for Astronomy magazine, Bob Berman spoke on "biocentrism" at the 2009 IdeaFestival. He explains in this brief interview following ...
Monday, 12 July 2010
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Alice Gray Stites: "Art an insurance policy"
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... of Proust was Neuroscientist, illustrated a number of ways, for example, that artists had anticipated discoveries later made by science. Art and the brain are made for each other. The nature of the ...
Friday, 09 July 2010
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Become a Friend of IdeaFestival
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... Innovation That Matters. By connecting important ideas and developments from the world’s leading creative minds in science, the arts, medicine, business, education, design and technology, the festival ...
Wednesday, 07 July 2010
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IdeaFestival Sponsors
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... Research Video Editing Services Kentucky Science & Enginnering Foundation The Wunderlin Company Kentucky Space YPO Bluegrass Chapter Louisville Collegiate School ...
Tuesday, 29 June 2010
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David Toop: What is the sound of silence?
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... of different experiences, different cultural forms, different genres. We can talk in a very broad sense and say art is separate from science, for example, or body is separate from mind, or we can talk ...
Monday, 28 June 2010
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Time travel and the mistake-free life
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... Science Channel show, Through the Wormhole, Morgan Freeman, who hosts, asked the following question. "If we could go back in time to fix our mistakes, would we ever learn anything?" Wayne ...
Monday, 28 June 2010
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Session Flyers
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... Before Life Jim Tucker Fri., Oct. 1 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM (Kentucky Center for the Performing Arts) IF Kids Separate Registration Required Fri., Oct. 1 10:00 AM - 1:00 PM (The Louisville Science ...
Sunday, 27 June 2010
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Born to Adorn? Desire, Display and Design
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... nexus between neuroscience and psychology. One attention grabbing quote from the lecture, available online: Dress informs and misinforms, reveals and conceals. Our unclothed and unadorned bodies speak ...
Wednesday, 23 June 2010
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Sean Carroll: Before the Big Bang?
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... explains in the Cosmic Log piece that the idea of a multiverse, where ours is but one of potentially many expansive histories, makes sense from the view of science. Sean Carroll will be speaking at the ...
Friday, 11 June 2010
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Seeing is not Believing
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... suggestion also strongly reminded me of the "Science of Magic" session at the 2008 IdeaFestival, where Teller brilliantly demonstrated, first with a trick, and then with an explanation of the trick, how ...
Monday, 10 May 2010
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Seeing is not Believing
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... also strongly reminded me of the "Science of Magic" session at the 2008 IdeaFestival, where Teller brilliantly demonstrated, first with a trick, and then with an explanation of the trick, how our senses ...
Monday, 10 May 2010
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Second Kentucky-built "plug and play" microlab bound for ISS
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... research experiments. This standard method for doing microgravity research offers many more organizations an opportunity to do repeatable, cost efficient work in the bio-sciences, for example. This photo ...
Tuesday, 04 May 2010
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Art: "The lie that makes us realize the truth"
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... at the 2008 IdeaFestival, Jonah Lehrer describes how through a process of experimentation and intense curiosity artists have anticipated discoveries about the mind later confirmed by science. Sure, were ...
Monday, 03 May 2010