World Science Festival Archives

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#WSF19: Can We Cure Deafness and Blindness?

This year’s World Science Festival invited Academy Award-winning actress Marlee Matlin, Dana Alliance member Jim Hudspeth, E.J. Chichilnisky, and perceptual navigation specialist Daniel Kish to talk about the way society treats people who are hard of hearing or blind.

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#WSF19: The Promise of Psychedelics

A recent World Science Festival event invited four experts to discuss the pros and cons of psychedelics, a class of drugs that has been picked back up by researchers due to its use in treating anxiety and depression.

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#WSF19: Risk-Taking in Extreme Sports

What leads people to voluntarily pursue life or death activities for fun?

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#WSF18: Why Music Makes Us Shiver

Musicians and neuroscientists gathered at NYU’s Global Center to explore what happens within our brains when we hear a piece of music and how much of listening is a subjective experience.

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#WSF18: Our Microbiome and the Brain

Four microbiologists took the stage for a World Science Festival event on the importance of gut health and how it relates to the brain.

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#WSF18: What Causes Extremism in the Brain?

A group of psychologists and neuroscientists got together for the World Science Festival to explore different sources that may contribute to extremist behavior and the roots of fundamentalism in the brain.

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#WSF18: They’ve Got the Power

A World Science Festival event on artificial intelligence welcomed experts in AI, neuroscience, and philosophy to discuss the potential of a future with self-taught robots.

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World Science Festival: Exploring the Geography of the Brain

Sunday’s World Science Festival event focused on the significance of the Human Connectome Project for creating detailed maps of the brain and featured Dana Alliance members David Van Essen and Jeff Lichtman.