clipped from: blog.ted.com The inaugural World Science Festival, a celebration of science and discovery, will take place May 28-June 1 in New York City. Organized by physicist Brian Greene, who explained string theory at TED2005, the event will bring together a range of speakers -- including many TEDTalks favorites such as philosopher Dan Dennett, inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil, mathemagician Arthur Benjamin, and rock-star physicist Brian Cox (whose TEDTalk from 2008 on the CERN supercollider will be posted next week). Many other fascinating people -- such as Michio Kaku, Maggie Turnbull, Patricia Churchland and Oliver Sacks -- will be speaking or presenting. Browse the list of speakers.
