New Dialogues On Time, Science And Culture In Seattle

I am here in the Emerald City for a week studying how stars like the sun spend their elder years. While I am here, however, I am fortunate to participate with KCTS 9 and the Pacific Science Center on an unusual approach to discussing science in the public sphere. The remarkable thing is everyone out there in interweb-land can participate too.

On Thursday Feb 23 at 7 pm PST, KCTS 9 will be Web-broadcasting a live-audience, moderated conversation on "Revolutions in Time, Culture & The Cosmos" which was, as those following this blog know, the subject of my last book.

While I have been doing lots of lectures on the subject, Thursday's event is a completely new format for me. It's one that I think holds a lot of promise.

Instead of me presenting a lecture in front of power-point slides, the audience ? both in-studio and on the web ? will be part of a conversation with Hanson Hosein of the UW and myself on cosmology and culture. Live polling based on questions we have been working to put together will, I hope, teach all of us about cultural attitudes about time, technology and cosmology's human context.

I am really excited to see how this works out.

In a culture where science shapes so much of culture, developing new ways to talk about its influence and results in the public domain may be one of our most necessary inventions.

Source: http://www.npr.org/blogs/13.7/2012/02/21/147229882/new-dialogues-on-time-science-and-culture-in-seattle?ft=1&f=1007

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